Andy Tully is a veteran news reporter who is now the news editor for Oilprice.com
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) now says the meltdown of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March 2011 involved all the fuel rods…
If you’ve ever looked at a flat-screen TV or computer monitor from an odd angle, you’ll get an idea of the challenge facing manufacturers of…
A new study from the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, argues that using solar and wind energy may be the most expensive alternatives to…
If you happen to notice a cigarette butt in a gutter, don’t be too quick to scorn it as disgusting and useless.Well, yes, it’s still…
Solar power is clean and renewable, but out of the box it’s not terribly efficient, at best turning about 25 percent of sunlight into electricity.…
Japan’s Panasonic Corp. says it will help finance Tesla Motor Inc.’s $5 billion battery plant in the United States. And at least one major investment…
The White House is expected to issue goals soon for the country’s use of renewable fuels during 2014 and its coming under pressure from the…
The American Automobile Association (AAA) has reported that the average pump price of a gallon of gasoline was $3.52 at the end of July, the…
Not that you really need to know this, but Superman is a lawbreaker. The Man of Steel may have great powers, but they have nothing…
A tanker ship carrying about 1 million barrels of Kurdish crude remains off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico, legally out of the…
Warsaw says Russia’s ban on most fruit and vegetable imports from Poland has nothing to do with food safety, as Moscow contends, but is political…
A set of studies based on three years of research concludes that by 2040, the need for drinking water and water for use in energy…
Previous European and U.S. economic sanctions against Russia have focused primarily on the defense and banking sectors, and new measures announced July 29 ramp up…
Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere because today’s technology allows them to hold the most electricity of any other portable power source. But they could hold more…
At the request of the government of Iraq, a U.S. judge has ordered the seizure of 1 million barrels of Kurdish crude oil from a…
Moscow says it will appeal a decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ordering the Russian government to pay more than $50…
Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer, says it's working out ways to maintain its profitability despite increasingly tougher Western sanctions, and that its revenues so far…
Spongelike structures are beginning to show their worth in improving energy efficiency.Already, the U.S. Department of Energy has developed a porous silicon that can replace…
No need to hammer home the Popeye parallel, so let's get right down to it: there’s a new reason to love spinach. And this new…
The price of gasoline in the United States will remain fairly static for the immediate future, even though refineries are working at record levels because…