Well-respected investor Jeremy Grantham has told his clients that the convenience of fossil fuel extraction will soon be shaded by renewables and that shale gas might...
Barack Obama told Congress on Tuesday that the US has plans to further reduce carbon emissions while boosting renewables and energy efficiency. In his annual State...
Environmental campaigners have said that French fossil fuel giant Total should not be allowed to take part in the UK’s fledgling fracking industry until the reasons...
Greenhouse gas emissions from the US energy sector are likely to have risen by as much 2% in 2013, according to new data from the Energy...
Carbon dioxide emissions related to energy consumption in the US fell to the lowest point for nearly two decades in 2012, according to a new report....
Two separate studies have found that the controversial process of fracking may cause less direct environmental damage than its critics have suggested, but might not have...
Greenpeace has launched a legal challenge to stop companies from fracking in England, and to halt what it calls “reckless and presumptuous” plans for shale gas...
France’s constitutional court has upheld its national ban on fracking, ruling that the ban is necessary to protect the environment. The court decided on Friday that...
We prefer non-fossil fuel investments but make an exception with natural gas as we believe it is a beneficial transition fuel, substituting more polluting fossil fuels...
Investment house Alliance Trust invests in non-fossil fuels, but makes an exception for natural gas, which it describes as a “beneficial transition fuel”. It adds that...
Fracking is not “the evil thing that some people try to make it out to be,” the UK energy secretary Ed Davey has claimed. Davey, who...
Campaign groups involved in the anti-fracking protests in Balcombe, West Sussex, have planned a 28 day blockade to the drill site. The site, which is occupied...
The 2010 American documentary GasLand focuses on communities in the United States that have been impacted by natural gas drilling, specifically by the method known as fracking. After...
Greenhouse gas emissions from China’s energy industry will peak in 2027, as renewable energy and gas take on a dominant role in the country’s energy mix,...
There is a growing enthusiasm for natural gas as a relatively low-carbon fuel, with the government in the UK looking to emulate the US shale gas...