Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
For decades, hydropower has been the chief source of clean and renewable energy in the United States, but new federal statistics show that it’s about…
Not many people think clunky solar roof panels are attractive, but we live with the unsightly installations because they provide clean, renewable energy.It would be…
Oil and gas are at the heart of the Russian economy and are largely responsible for keeping Moscow’s government budget in balance. But the recent…
When a car battery calls it quits, it usually ends up at a service station that disposes of it responsibly, because it contains toxic lead.…
Recent news about improving the efficiency of solar panels often has focused on exotic technologies and materials. All of them show promise – otherwise they…
A new study says the recent increase in global oil production and the ensuing drop in price may threaten the profits of energy companies that…
Oil prices fell on Aug. 18 as concern eased about oil supplies from North Africa and the Middle East.Brent crude from the North Sea fell…
Beginning just a few months after the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, scientists began studying the biological effects of the…
A decision by Ukraine’s parliament to allow European and U.S. companies to lease shares of the pipeline that carries Russian gas to the West could…
A new study of the fluids used in the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows that several of them may not be as…
A Russian financial journal reports that Russian oil giant Rosneft, despite earlier indifference to Western sanctions, is now expecting to feel their pinch and has…
Imagine using daily exercise not just to power your body, but also your cell phone. That’s what a team of scientists at the University of…
Researchers in London say they’ve come up with an entirely new way to generate and direct electrical currents in semiconductors by focusing on an alternative…
OPEC member countries produced generous amounts of crude during July, causing a “glut” in the supply of oil, despite conflicts involving oil countries that have…
You can’t just flip a switch and immediately shift the world’s energy use from fossil fuels to something cleaner like hydrogen. Such change takes time.…
A new analysis of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline says the project could be far worse for the world’s environment than estimated by the U.S.…
Ukraine is planning to impose sanctions on Russia that might include an effort to starve its larger and richer neighbor of income by stopping the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is praising ExxonMobil as a paragon of “cooperation” for beginning work on a project to drill for oil in the Arctic…
Statoil says its failure so far to find commercial quantities of oil and gas in the Arctic Barents Sea doesn’t mean the company is ready…
Forget the better mousetrap. Research today seems focused on making a better battery – smaller but with greater capacity, lighter, and quick to recharge. That’s…