"These are our mountains... I look at what we have, and I think, why ruin it over an oil rig?"

The NYT quotes Cheryl Little Dog — "a recently elected member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, the reservation’s governing bo...

Gov. Cuomo wants to permit fracking, but only in a few counties along the Pennsylvania border...

... and only where the local populace supports the activity. He's trying to balance between the people who worry about contaminating the...

"Center of gravity in oil world shifts to Americas."

WaPo reports. From Canada to Colombia to Brazil, oil and gas production in the Western Hemisphere is booming, with the United States emergin...

"Once our babymaking days are over, fat is stored in larger quantities and also stored more centrally, where it is easiest to carry about."

"That way, if times get tough we can use it for our own survival, thus freeing up food for our younger relatives." Should we not h...

"EPA Backpedals on Fracking Contamination."

"The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its claim that an energy company contaminated drinking water in Texas, the third time ...

Rush Limbaugh makes a sex joke about President Obama: "I've laid more pipe than any president except Bill Clinton."

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh was riffing on Obama's seeming turnaround on the Keystone Pipeline. You might think he wouldn't dip back in...

"Wind power is too costly, inefficient, and won't stop climate change."

Bjørn Lomborg.

Obama's approval rating sinks from 50% to 41% in one month.

According to the new CBS News/New York Times survey. I guess pandering to women isn't all it's cracked up to be. Or did he do it th...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz utters a bizarre sentence about Obama's position on the Keystone Pipeline.

On "Meet the Press" today: It would take 45 years if the Keystone Pipeline were in place, to produce as much oil as President Obam...

At the Solar Flower Café...

... unfold all your rigid righteousness.

"When the Obama administration and Congress expanded the clean-energy incentives in 2009, a gold-rush mentality took over."

Write Eric Lipton and Clifford Krauss in the NYT: The windfall for the industry over the last three years raises questions of whether the Ob...

Are Pennsylvania hunters upset about the boom in natural gas drilling in the state?

Katharine Seelye deploys some purple prose to help NYT readers think that they are. STATE GAME LAND 59, Pa. — For those who have ever stalke...

Are you part of "the technocrati generation that uses the city as its living room and kitchen..."

"... and goes to practically a dorm room to crash at the end of the day"? In cities, modules can be stacked to make a new generati...

"Windmills to shut at night following demise of rare bat."

It's so sad when goodnesses collide . Can't we just make bats evil again? So the windmills can save us?

Harnessing wind power on a tiny scale: through the nose.

Invented at the University of Wisconsin: Materials science and engineering assistant professor Xudong Wang, post-doctoral researcher Chengli...

If Obama wants a "Nixon goes to China" opportunity, here it is!

Instapundit has this: NPR: New Boom Reshapes Oil World, Rocks North Dakota. “Two years ago, America was importing about two thirds of its o...

"The Obama Administration's hostility to oil and gas exploration is well known, but last week it took an especially fowl turn."

"The U.S. Attorney for North Dakota hauled seven oil and natural gas companies into federal court for killing 28 migratory birds that w...

"One claim is that fracking creates cracks in rock formations that allow chemicals to leach into sources of fresh water."

"... The problem with this argument is that the average shale formation is thousands of feet underground, while the average drinking we...

"'Release Baby Release' is the new 'Drill Baby Drill.'"

And candidate Obama told us in '08 it was going to be his "policy to use the strategic petroleum reserves as a market cushion....

"Suddenly it appears that there may be enough accessible hydrocarbons to power industrial civilization for centuries, if not millennia, to come."

"So much for the specter of depletion, as a reason to adopt renewable energy technologies like solar power and wind power."