Why has U.S. expanded travel ban to Chad and removed Sudan?
Observers wonder whether Chad’s troubles started when it attempted to slap a record $74 billion fine on Exxon Mobil.
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Thirst for oil returns in wealthy nations
A decade’s worth of efforts to cut oil consumption in industrialized countries is at risk of being reversed, as low fuel prices boost demand and send motorists flocking back to larger gas-guzzling cars.
Iraq, Turkey threaten Kurdistan’s oil boom after controversial independence vote
Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence referendum Monday has returned its renegade oil industry to the spotlight, prompting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to threaten to cut off the region’s petroleum exports and Baghdad to call for a de facto boycott of Kurdish crude.
Road to electric car paradise paved with handouts
The Norwegian island of Finnoey has the highest density of electric cars in the world. The reason? They are exempt from the $6,000-a-year toll charges for the tunnel to the mainland.
A new approach to energy poverty
Energy poverty is a global crisis. Millions of people all over the world don’t have access to basic resources they need to survive, and what’s being done today to address it isn’t working. Read more →
This is how climate change will shift the world’s cities
Up to a dozen cities will heat up so much, their summers will have no analog currently on Earth.
Here’s how North Korea may get through a total oil ban
As the U.S. and its allies look to impose even stricter measures against North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un could find inspiration from oppressive regimes of yesteryear in Nazi Germany and Apartheid-era South Africa.
Tribal clashes, political void threaten oil installations in Iraq’s south
Worsening clashes among tribes and a political void is threatening security at oil installations in Iraq’s main southern oil producing region, officials and security sources said.
IEA sees strongest global oil-demand growth in two years
Global oil demand will climb this year by the most since 2015, the International Energy Agency said, amid stronger-than-expected consumption in Europe and the U.S.
China sets 2020 target for nationwide ethanol use to cut corn stocks
It’s the first time the government has set a targeted timeline for pushing the biofuel, known as E10 and containing 10 percent ethanol, across the world’s largest car market, although it has yet to announce a formal policy.
