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Nearly a decade and a half after it was first proposed, America’s first commercial offshore wind project, Cape Wind, could be on its last legs. Yesterday, National Grid and NSTAR, the two […]

Some are trying to figure out if nearby fracking operations are to blame. The post Texas City Hit With 11 Earthquakes In 24 Hours appeared first on ThinkProgress. via ThinkProgress » Secondary […]

With Nymex natural gas averaging $2.93 per MMBtu for the next six months, the commodity’s economics need to be re-assessed. While the current negative price signal can be rationalized, sub-$3 gas price […]

"If you repeat a falsehood long enough, it will eventually be accepted as fact." In the financial markets and economics it is a common occurrence that the media and commentators will latch […]

A closer look at Pope Francis’s planned push on climate change in 2015. via NYT > Environment http://ift.tt/1ELqnAJ

Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans. via NYT > Environment http://ift.tt/1zDU929

This year is shaping up to be a good, but not great year for plug-in cars. Electric vehicle (EV) sales are up, from 86,912 units over the first eleven months of 2013 […]

A group of Senators recently urged the U.S. Department of Energy to continue funding programs for the domestic distributed wind energy industry. The bipartisan group, led by Senator Al Franken, wrote a […]

Last January, the polar vortex brought extreme cold temperatures to much of the U.S., causing energy prices to spike as the natural gas system struggled and fossil-fuel power plants tripped offline. In […]

Since the New York Public Service Commission opened its Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding in the spring to modernize the state’s electricity system, a lot has happened. Namely, New York utilities […]