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Energy Independence - Free at Last?

Michael Brenner | Posted 02.09.2013 | Politics
Michael Brenner

There is a current of excitement running through the foreign affairs community sparked by the prospect that the United States will cease being a net energy importer within 25 years. How justified is this celebration of a euphoric future?

World Energy Report 2012

Michael T. Klare | Posted 01.27.2013 | Green
Michael T. Klare

In a report that leads with the "good news" of impending U.S. oil supremacy, to calmly suggest that the world is headed for a global temperature increase of 3.6 degrees C is like placing a thermonuclear bomb in a gaudily-wrapped Christmas present.

The Media Blunder of the Month -- Energy Independence, so NOT

Carl Pope | Posted 01.16.2013 | Green
Carl Pope

America's oil addiction and oil dependence are not a thing of the past -- whatever the media may have yipped at each other's heels to tell you this week.

Greening the EU Budget: A Ray of Sunshine in an Otherwise Stormy Sky

Kelly Rigg | Posted 11.16.2012 | Green
Kelly Rigg

Europe may not be dealing with freak weather events at the moment, but in economic and social terms the storm clouds over the continent have become a permanent feature on the landscape -- for at least the past three years now -- and the hard rain is now falling, in bucket loads.

IEA Report Says Time Running Out To Limit Earth's Warming

AP | By SARAH DiLORENZO | Posted 01.09.2012 | Green

PARIS -- The International Energy Agency warned Wednesday that the world is hurtling toward irreversible climate change and will lose the chance to li...

Energy Agency's 'Golden Age' for Gas

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.04.2012 | Green
Bill Chameides

A special report from the International Energy Agency released in advance of the World Energy Outlook 2011 examines how ramping up natural gas would impact energy and climate up to 2035.

Even the International Energy Agency Forecasts Peak Oil

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Jeffrey Rubin

This year, the International Energy Agency is taking a far more sober perspective on the world's oil-consuming future due to our ever-greater reliance on costly unconventional oil sources.

Peak Oil Finally Piquing Analysts?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with www.TheGreenGrok.com.According to a new report: We need to put a carbon price on oil to keep the price of oil down.You know how the c...

Climate Denial Industry Costs Us $500 Billion a Year

James Hoggan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
James Hoggan

Nearly all point the finger at the US for delaying a global agreement on climate change. But if they want to find the real culprit, they have no look no further than the US coal and oil industry.