Volkswagen AG’s namesake brand will make an aggressive push in the U.S. and begin a concerted shift toward electric vehicles as it looks to revive its brand and recharge its bottom line.
Gasoline is like some kind of drug: we know it’s bad for the planet, but we just can’t give it up. Now a number of voices from the energy industry suggest that our addiction could begin to ease, thanks to the rise of electric cars.
General Motors plans to start offering fleet customers heavy-duty pickups and full-size vans powered by compressed natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas.
Six years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill devastated the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still taking stock of the damage it caused.
When you’re the International Energy Agency, you have to go out on a limb and peer a quarter-century ahead. The latest World Energy Outlook, published on Tuesday, weighs in at a magisterial 667 pages of detailed analysis and scenarios. I’m going to focus specifically on one aspect: oil supply and demand.
The head of the company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline says the company won’t consider rerouting it to address American Indian concerns.
Political people in the United States are watching the chaos in Washington in the moment. But some people in the science community are watching the chaos somewhere else — the Arctic.
Imagine the U.S. without a single barrel of imported oil. From 50% imports in 2007 to 30% imports today to 0% in the mid-2020s – 50 years of geopolitical leverage from OPEC can be gone for good.
The Obama administration is set to block the sale of new oil and gas drilling rights in U.S. Arctic waters under a five-year blueprint, handing a victory to environmentalists who said the activity threatened whales, walruses and other wildlife in the region.
A series of events this fall open opportunities for states to begin to transform the U.S. transportation sector toward reduced emissions and lower cost for consumers, all fueled by American resources.
