The economics of nuclear power are a tough sell.

New shale oil fields in the middle of the country, far from pipelines, depend on rail to get to coastal refineries

Big oil companies have to go farther and use expensive, new technology to tap oil deposits

Strip mines in the Powder Ridge Basin of Wyoming and Montana are isolated and out of sight. Their efforts to expand exports of coal to Asia are making them more visible.

Marketplace checks back in with Austin Golding, co-owner of Golding Barges Line in Mississippi.

Britain has just approved construction of its first new nuclear power plant in 20 years.

The fracking boom is bringing in a surge of development — and tax revenue — to North Dakota. Now conservationists have a plan use some of that growth to protect the environment.

How did the 1973 oil crisis convince Americans to reduce energy consumption?

The Environmental Protection Agency's is issuing new limits on emissions by coal-burning plants that new plants will need advanced carbon-capture technology to comply.

Mexico is sitting on 87 billion barrels of untapped oil, yet production has dropped 25 percent in the last decade.