Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.