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Obama: Spend oil money on alternatives to oil
Mar 15, 2013
The surge in oil and natural gas production in the U.S. offers real economic opportunities. How much are royalties from offshore drilling growing, and what could be gained by taking some of that money to help fund alternative energies?
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Will Obama's second term have a greener tint?
Mar 15, 2013
President Obama highlights his energy policy at an event in Illinois today. What’s that policy, and will it get more attention in the second term than it did in the first?
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In Tokyo, a restaurant toasts Fukushima every night
Mar 12, 2013
One Tokyo restaurant is dedicated to Fukushima. It serves food and dishes from the region. Many of its customers are volunteers in the area destroyed by the tsunami two years ago. And it dedicates its profits to relief efforts.
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What fracking means for manufacturing and the environment: BS detector
Mar 11, 2013
We look at energy and environment myths and misperceptions we're uncovering on the Petro-state beat.
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Two years after Fukushima disaster, doubts of food safety linger in Japan
Mar 11, 2013
Japanese officials say food produced in the region around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is safe. But if you want your rice tested in front of you -- there's a service for that.
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Whole Foods to label all genetically modified foods
Mar 11, 2013
The grocery chain Whole Foods has announced it will require all of its products that contain genetically modified food ingredients to be labeled that way by 2018.
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Oil-boom sprawl swallows a North Dakota city
Mar 8, 2013
The oil industry and the thousands of workers it's attracted have swallowed up communities like Williston, N.D., where neighborhoods on the edge of town now feel like they're in the center.
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Small farms struggle for startup funding
Mar 8, 2013
More consumers want to buy food from small, local farms. But those types of growers are having a hard time getting start-up money.
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In the fracking fields, a fight over who regulates
Mar 7, 2013
In Pennsylvania's shale-gas region, many cities and towns have passed ordinances restricting where drillers can put their fracking wells, equipment and wastewater. Now a case is before the state's Supreme Court.
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Trains will move tar sands oil, if the Keystone XL doesn't
Mar 4, 2013
A study commissioned by the State Department concludes that building the Keystone XL pipeline won't contribute to global warming, because Canadian tar sands oil will get to market with or without the pipeline.
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