U.S. oil production is suddenly growing so fast that some analysts are questioning how much the country really needs the Canadian tar sands oil that would move through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. ...

A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the disaster. ...

The United States is in a new and unique position: not only does it have the capacity for energy self-reliance, but also the ability to export energy. This enviable situation provides President Obama with an opportunity that could shape his legacy by creating more American jobs, strengthening our economy, and being a positive influence on the global stage. ...

Texas should be the model for other states as officials seek to reduce the need to burn, or flare off, methane coming from oil and gas wells drilled by hydraulic fracturing, a top Senate Democrat said. ...

President Obama’s supporters sometimes complain about the bad hand he was dealt when he came to office. The truth is that history, technology, and plain old luck deal all presidents bad hands – and good ones, too. The test of leadership is how well the hands are played. ...

Governor Cuomo, who still has not issued a decision on whether hydro fracking should be allowed in New York, is backing further away from the controversial gas drilling process in his economic development plans for the future. ...

As millions of Americans prepare to get behind the wheel and embark on a Memorial Day getaway this weekend, they should also be bracing for something else: high gas prices. ...

The Silicon Valley electric-car startup has often been lumped in with "losers" like Solyndra and Fisker when Fox News commentators and Republican presidential candidates criticize President Obama's green-energy subsidies. This has always been absurd, and maybe now it can finally be put to rest. ...

The enactment of Pennsylvania’s drilling impact fee on the oil and gas industry has not slowed the political class’s grubbing for money from the state’s most prolific producers of new energy. ...

Maintaining a flat level of natural gas production from U.S. shale deposits is an elusive prospect, an energy policy director told U.S. lawmakers. ...