In announcing his newfound support for offshore drilling, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) consistently touts the safety of offshore oil exploration. “[I]t’s safe enough...

photo by Madhav Pai When Katie Couric allowed T. Boone Pickens to speak on CBS last week—I won’t call it an interview as Couric didn’t real probe any of Pickens’...

    The US oil giant Chevron will continue to do business in Burma after a provision to stop it operating there was removed from the latest round of...

Online Community for Hypermiling With hypermiling getting ever-more popular as gas prices increase, it seems strange that TreeHugger has yet to feature a post purely...

    A new book from Foreign Policy in Focus explains what made the Iraq war possible, and how we can stop the factors that precipitated it before they...

In Canada, tapping the tar sands has been called the most environmentally destructive project on the planet. In the United States, some equally not-so-eco-friendly...

...from an energy standpoint, that is. Folks over at The Oil Drum are running the numbers on comparing human labour [sic] to oil. Turns out that running the human...

While attending the Symi Symposium in Greece last week, I was able to spend some time with Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prize-winning economist from Columbia University. ...

You may have already seen this ad broadcast or on YouTube, and while TreeHugger generally tries to stay above the political fray, this latest attack ad from John...

Peak Oil Changes Everything We already know that talk of peak oil makes a lot of people uncomfortable, even if the talking is done by young women in lingerie. But to see...

    Senator McCain is in the unenviable position of running on the track record of a president with the worst economic performance since Herbert...

Last week’s drop in oil prices led to money shifting away from energy-related exchange traded funds (ETFs). And, of all places, investors appear to be putting it...

"[US troops should leave Iraq a]s soon as possible, as far as we're concerned. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be...

An 11.2% drop-off in oil prices last week, coupled with big one-week losses in some oil-related exchange traded funds (ETFs) has suddenly got analysts wondering if the...

Not good. This from the same management team who showered themselves in millions in salary and bonuses all while going through bankruptcy. Twice.Jet fuel has surpassed...

The Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first symbol means danger. The second symbol means opportunity.I am back from spending...

I recently received this email from a visitor asking, “if a recipe calls for four ounces of something, how do you know if they mean four ounces on the food scale,...

No one likes offshore drilling or oil tankers. Having said that, oil drilling and tanker spills are not the major source of oil contamination in the oceans. Frankly,...

Regular readers know that I have long predicted the current price of oil and that we are now moving through Peak Oil These subjects were included in my “Forecast for...

    Washington - During a week of economic turmoil and wildly fluctuating energy prices, Washington lawmakers did little to calm consumers, opting...