For a while there it really seemed like alternative energy was going to save us all.  Some experiments produced phenominal results, the politicians were slowly coming around and a couple of massive oil spills had Big Oil reeling in the court of public opinion.  But here we are on the

©2015 Bloomberg News NQPQI06S972H (Bloomberg) — U.K. ministers must extend incentives for low-carbon energy production to spur investments into the next decade, the government’s global-warming adviser said. Clear policies are required now to ensure Britain stays on course to meet self-imposed greenhouse-gas limits, the Committee on Climate Change said Tuesday

In many of today’s most populated cities, there’s hardly any room for people, much less wildlife.  It’s becoming more and more difficult to provide any kind of real habitat for animals in these areas and, though the illustration below may look like something out of a science fiction movie, it

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NIRF066JIJUR (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s call to restrict oil exploration on 12 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge probably won’t have much practical impact for an area already off-limits to drillers, though it’s created a new fault line with the Republican-led Congress. The White

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NIAO4Y6JTSEJ (Bloomberg) — U.S. drillers have taken a record number of oil rigs out of service in the past six weeks as OPEC sustains its production, sending prices below $50 a barrel. The oil rig count has fallen by 209 since Dec. 5, the steepest six-week decline