The leader of one of the world’s largest energy companies said this week that humans are accelerating climate change and the global community should take action to address the problem.  More »

An emboldened, second-term President Obama on Tuesday made clear that if lawmakers don’t tackle climate change, he will do an end run around Congress and use his executive powers to curb greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.  More »

A carbon capture demonstration project in Port Arthur is now up and running, another milestone in national efforts to reduce harmful emissions from energy production.  More »

Regulatory and economic hurdles have sidetracked a proposed power plant that would have run on byproducts from Corpus Christi-area refineries.  More »

Obama’s pick to be the new Secretary of State also could face a tough decision on whether the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is in the “national interest.”  More »

Mainstream media had something of a field day last week over alleged leaked documents from the Heartland Institute that purport to show the organization’s funding sources and its 2012 strategy. After reading at least a half a dozen articles about these leaked documents, I was left wondering: so what? The implication is that the source [...]  More »

Last month, the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal feature a column signed by 16 scientists—a group of distinguished physicists and engineers—which challenged the conventional wisdom of an impending climate catastrophe. Its authors made the case that there are no compelling scientific arguments support the calls made by activists and politicians for drastic action [...]  More »