The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge in demand for everything from hand sanitizer and face masks to lumber and toilet paper. It has also led to the soaring use of telehealth services…

The antitrust lawsuit filed yesterday against Google GOOG +2.4% by the U.S. Justice Department and 11 states, is a landmark in the effort to restrain the power of the world’s biggest technology companies…

Policymakers must work to ensure that decarbonization doesn’t harm low- and middle-income Americans.

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The sharpest criticism of California’s policies on electric vehicles and climate change isn’t coming from Republicans or groups funded by the oil and gas business. Instead, it’s coming…

Book reviews are the literary equivalent of visiting a buffet line that features 30 different dishes, but only being allowed to fill one small soup bowl, with no second helpings. There’s no good way…

Electoral and energy realities caught up with Joe Biden last week. On Monday, in a speech in Pittsburgh, the Democratic presidential nominee said “I am not banning fracking…

Last month, the Democratic Party came out in favor of nuclear energy for the first time in five decades. The party’s platform said the “urgent need” to decarbonize the electric grid requires…

It took five decades, but the Democratic Party has finally changed its stance on nuclear energy. In its recently released party platform, the Democrats say they favor a “technology-neutral” approach…

he blackouts that hit California over the past few days exposed the fragility of one of the most-expensive and least-reliable electric grids in North America…

Preliminary results of the investigation into the blast that leveled much of central Beirut last Tuesday show that the tragedy is due to the government corruption and incompetence that has plagued Lebanon…

Last year, Berkeley became the first city in the United States to pass a ban on natural gas hookups in new buildings. Since then, about 30 local governments in California have passed restrictions…

The Swartzentruber Amish community in Cattaraugus County, New York are in danger of having their horse-drawn carriages run into the ditch by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s all-renewable-energy express train.

Earlier this month, Joe Biden released an energy plan that calls for spending $2 trillion on building efficiency, electric vehicles, and, most important, an overhaul of the electric grid so that it relies solely on “clean” electricity by 2035.