Nick Cunningham is an independent journalist, covering oil and gas, energy and environmental policy, and international politics. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
Defying the odds, Iraq has managed to increase its oil exports to the highest level in more than 35 years. The war-torn country is dealing…
Four years after the Fukushima meltdown, Japan is finally eyeing a return to nuclear power. To be sure, some, if not most of Japan’s 54…
It appears as if oil prices could be on the verge of a rebound, with new data showing that the U.S. oil patch is hitting…
Oil prices will remain subdued for the next 20 years. That comes from a new policy brief from Stanford economist Frank Wolak, who says that…
Cracks are widening in Russia’s flagship natural gas producer Gazprom. The state-owned gas company has suffered mightily under the weight of western sanctions and the…
The fate of global oil prices will be determined in Lausanne, Switzerland this week. An unlikely location for oil markets, to be sure, but that…
On March 18 the city of Georgetown, Texas announced that it would soon be generating 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. Georgetown agreed…
Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes in Yemen, causing oil prices to jump on fears over Middle East instability. The markets clearly reacted with concern over the…
If nuclear power is going to succeed in the 21st century, there will need to be major innovations in controlling costs and enhancing safety. The…
More than four years after the catastrophic tsunami that crippled several nuclear reactors in Fukushima, the Japanese utility that owns the site is struggling to…
Oil companies continue to get burned by low oil prices, but the pain is bleeding over into the financial industry. Major banks are suffering huge…
A top Saudi official said on March 15 that Thomas Friedman and other conspiracy theorists are to blame for the crash in oil prices. Rather…
After a brief period earlier this year in which the spread between WTI and Brent had vanished, the difference between the two oil benchmark prices…
China is in the midst of a historic transformation, and the surprising progress the country has made at energy efficiency has raised hopes that the…
Royal Dutch Shell plans on shutting down its iconic Brent oil field after it reaches the end of its life. The field has played a…
China has decided to defy international norms and build new nuclear reactors in Pakistan. While the U.S. and Europe see stagnant growth for commercial nuclear…
Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year. But along with all of the…
Could France, a heavyweight in nuclear power, begin to see its position crumble? Areva, France’s iconic nuclear power builder, reported a massive financial loss for…
A lobbying blitz is underway to scrap the decades old ban on crude oil exports from the United States. Originally implemented during price spikes in…
A new study concludes that climate change played a role in sparking the civil war in Syria, adding to the body of research showing a…