Climate

Norway supplies 30 percent of Europe’s gas. Its existing fields are declining. It is reopening wells shut down in 1998, dropping its renewable energy targets, and drilling into the pristine Barents Sea. This is what an energy security crisis looks like when you trade one geopolitical dependency for another. ⚡ SAN Energy & Climate ·

For half a century, the number on a gas station sign was the closest thing American and European politics had to a universal economic mood ring. That role now belongs to something far less visible: the monthly electric bill, pushed higher by artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and a power grid straining to keep up with

Freedom Fuel Network became a national talking point this summer for selling gasoline well below market price across Pennsylvania and South Jersey. A federal lawsuit filed against one of its fuel suppliers now raises a harder question: how a chain nobody could quite identify the owners of was able to undercut every competitor on the

Four stories from this week in energy and climate politics that, taken together, tell you exactly where the transition stands and who is fighting over its direction. This Week in Energy Politics: Big Oil Profits, Surviving Clean Energy Cuts, and the Data Center Backlash ⚡ SAN Energy & Climate Report Trump vs. Exxon, $600 Billion

The energy headlines of any given week in 2026 can feel contradictory, almost deliberately so, as though the news itself is designed to make it difficult to locate a coherent direction in the relationship between American politics, global oil markets, and the climate transition that the science has been demanding for decades. One story describes

The summer of 2026 is not a theoretical warning about what climate change might eventually look like. It is the warning made real, playing out in real time across three continents, in meteorological data, in hospital emergency rooms overwhelmed by heat casualties, in wildfire smoke columns visible from space, and in the quiet arithmetic of

For decades, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has served as one of the United States’ most important energy security tools, a massive emergency stockpile designed to protect the nation from supply disruptions, geopolitical instability, and sudden energy market shocks. Traditionally associated with Gulf Coast storage facilities and national emergency planning, the reserve has rarely become a