Washington Wants Federal-Land Drilling to Get Cheaper Again
Interior is trying to rewind key federal oil-and-gas leasing rules, cutting upfront costs for drillers while reopening the argument over cleanup risk, methane waste, and public-land oversight.
Permitting Is the Real Constraint on the Renewable Build-Out, Not Panels.
Solar costs have collapsed 89% since 2010, but renewable capacity growth is slowing. The bottleneck isn't technology; it's the five-to-nine-year permitting gauntlet.
Oil gets a peace-deal discount. Tankers ask for the fine print.
Hormuz hopes cool crude, Puerto Rico buys LNG resilience, Southeast Asia gets an import-bill warning, and India’s solar boom runs into the battery wall.
For the first full month on record, solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal. The milestone does not mean coal is gone, but it does show how quickly the American power stack is being rewritten.
