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The U.S. Congress's mandate to blend ethanol from corn into our gasoline supply has contributed to higher food costs. Producing ethanol from corn can be  energy-intensive and competes with our food supply. 

Although it represents a delay of about a month, the Northeast Gateway LNG is expected to receive its first cargo in May.  This Massachusetts offshore terminal will be the fourth new LNG terminal to start operations since April 1st of this year.  The four new terminals combined will almost...

The withdrawal of AirFrance-KLM from negotiations on the sale of Alitalia means that the airline is living on borrowed time. The government has extended a €300 million emergency loan to keep the company afloat for a few more months. The question of what happens to one of the...

A joint Canadian and Japanese research team have, for the first time, successfully produced a constant stream of natural gas from a gas hydrate well.  Using modified conventional technologies, the team was able to achieve steady flow without heating the surrounding ice.

The counterfeiting of drugs -- which encompasses not only products that are completely fake, but also those that have been tampered with, contaminated, diluted, repackaged or mislabelled in a way that misrepresents the contents, dosage, origin or expiration date -- is a huge and growing problem. ...

More regulation is not synonymous with greater safety or enhanced benefits to society.  Often, the opposite is true because excessive regulation is a drag on innovation, diminishing competition and the number of products available to consumers, and inflating prices.  Instead of overreacting...

Sustained high natural gas prices have spurred significant new exploration in North America, and these efforts are beginning to pay off.  Shale gas plays in the northeast, Texas and Louisiana, Quebec, and the upper midwest are expected to add 10 percent to U.S./Canadian gas reserves and 6...

The combination of a huge regulatory burden plus the uncertainty and the vast costs related to product liability threatens innovation.  "Preemption" -- the presumption that drugmakers are not culpable for mishaps with their drugs, as long as they have fully satified federal regulators...

Has it not been noticed that carbon offsets do nothing to protect the environment?  Why bother debating such a politically cynical system of fraudulent regultions?  The offset system -- the buying and selling of permission to start/continue carbon emissions -- does no more (at best) than maintain...

For the voluntary carbon offsets to be credible, an offset project should meet several criteria: the reductions should be real, measurable, verifiable, and "additional". Carbon trading in Europe for environmental projects in poorer nations are being questioned by the U.N. In the U.S. the Federal...