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Why Rick Santorum doesn't want Pope Francis talking about climate changeIn an interview on a Philadelphia radio show Monday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum criticized the pope’s vocal stance on climate change and the environment.
Oil price revival bolsters outlook for Russian economyFalling oil prices last year spelled trouble for Russia, which gets half its budget from fossil fuel revenues, writes Andy Tully. But the modest revival in prices over the last few month has made economic forecasts more optimistic.
Fatal Chevron gas well explosion leads to record fine in Penn.Chevron Corp has been fined over $900,000 for a February 2014 explosion that killed a Pennsylvania man.
As California drought persists, residents cut water use by 13.5 percentAs snowpack water hit a record low, drought restrictions and mandatory cutbacks encouraged Californians to save water in April.
Oil prices up as Saudis see rising demand, slowing supplySaudi Arabia's oil minister arrived in Vienna Monday for a semi-annual Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, and expressed optimism that the cartel's strategy of maintaining output is working.
California farmers finding new ways to conserve water amid droughtFarmers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta are changing what they plant, in addition to how much, in efforts to reduce the impact of the ongoing California drought.
Solar plane stuck in Japan until weather improvesAfter an unplanned landing due to bad weather on Monday, Solar Impulse 2 is waiting to take of for its nonstop flight to Hawaii.
Will environmentalists block Shell's offshore Arctic drilling plans?Environmental groups are renewing a challenge to 2008 lease sale of Arctic sea off Alaska's northwest shore.
In Western sagebrush, a new model for saving threatened speciesThe Endangered Species Act has long rankled residents and businesses in the West. But a new effort to save the sage grouse could point to a model of cooperative conservation.
Why natural gas may become the fuel of choice in this coal stateIn coal-loving Kentucky, Obama's climate regulations and the cheap price of natural gas are making the fossil fuel an appealing alternative to coal, writes Andy Tully.
Lindsey Graham: the Republican who wants to tackle climate changeSouth Carolina's senior senator, one of the GOP's few moderates on climate change, launched a bid for president Monday. But Sen. Lindsey Graham's odds are long, and his campaign is focused on national security.
In quake-prone Nepal, why solar power is an energy solutionDeveloping and disaster-prone nations such as Nepal are turning more to solar power as a response to climate change, and as a path toward energy security and economic stability.
Dear UN, put a price on carbon. Yours truly, Big Oil.Major European oil firms have called on world leaders to put a global price on carbon. It's a sign of growing unity around a potential tool for slowing climate change, but not everyone is on board.
How secure is global oil? [Recharge]US oil abundance helps to counteract vulnerabilities in the Middle East; the Obama Administration opens up a second front in environmental policy; North America reimagines energy trade. Catch up on global energy with the Monitor's Recharge.
In oil-rich Middle East, an opening for renewable energyWith solar costs falling, oil-poor countries in the Middle East – like Egypt and Jordan – might be able to cash in on their plentiful sun power, writes Darrell Delamaide.
- California oil spill: Did official cleanup start soon enough?
California's U.S. senators called the oil spill response insufficient and demanded Plains All American Pipeline explain what it did, and when.
Investors turning away from green energyBig investors are confident that fossil fuels will remain a key energy source for years down the road, writes Michael McDonald, and the number of clean energy patents – a proxy for innovation – fell last year.
Coal is having a terrible year. Is this the beginning of the end?With the world’s largest coal consumers trying to rid themselves of the dirty fuel, it appears that there is little room to maneuver for coal producers, Cunningham writes. 2015 may be the year in which it all starts to fall apart.
The US economy is slowing. Are energy costs to blame?The high energy prices of the last decade or so may be, in part, responsible for low productivity growth in the US, Cobb writes.
California oil spill: Did pipeline operator act fast enough?What was done to detect and stop a California oil pipeline spill and protect some of the most fabled coastline in California has come under scrutiny, as officials continue cleaning up the mess created by a leak estimated at up to 101,000 gallons.
