Exxon

Feeding the globe's insatiable energy appetite is a highly dangerous business. And, unfortunately, events like the BP oil spill are not once-in-a-generation freak accidents. Here, we take a look at the biggest energy-related accidents in 2011.

For several years now, we’ve been making the case that the clean energy industry has to dramatically scale its advocacy investment to meet an aggressive disinformation campaign trained against it by the fossil lobby. We’ve found increasing receptiveness to that message, but we still run into people who think we’ve got tin foil on our heads. The refrain goes something like this: “Who’d want to do such a thing to wind, solar and geothermal power?”

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says reports that the U.S. government has approved BP's (NYSE: BP) requests to resume drilling at its existing wells in the Gulf of Mexico are inaccurate.

This is Part I of my three part Q & A with Mike Mendez, vice-president of technology at Sapphire Energy. In this part, Mendez talks about his background, the history and mission of Sapphire, how algae is turned into energy, and is goal to domesticate algae.

Apparently taking a page out of the Exxon handbook, BP has now begun buying up scientists from universities along the Gulf Coast in an attempt to prevent them from testifying in court about the dangers of their oil spill.

In this segment of my interview with UNICA's chief U.S. representative Joel Velasco, we discuss Growth Energy's claims, the politics surrounding corn and sugarcane ethanol and tariffs.

At a time when most Americans are still weary about the U.S. economy, studies from various different institutions show that the American Power Act (APA) will help improve almost all sectors of the economy.

The latest in a recent line of attacks against the American Power Act comes from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank funded in part by oil companies like

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill that resulted from an explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon off the Louisiana Coast is said to have surpassed the Exxon Valdez as the worst in U.S. history.

Written by Stacy Clark, Dallas

Observing the unimpeded hydrocarbon cocktail and chemical chasers rapidly dispersing in the Gulf, one wonders what all of this is costing us.

And, it’s a valid inquiry.