Steven Chu

On Monday, President-elect Barack Obama named Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, as his choice to lead the Department of Energy. It’s hard to imagine a greater contrast between Mr. Chu and the man he probably…

With most of the nation focused on a historic presidential campaign and election, Bush administration officials have been busy preparing parting gifts for their friends in private industry.
They’re scrambling to rewrite scores of federal regulations. Among the goals: to allow…

We posted video of Republican candidate Kenny Hulshof talking about his energy policy this week. Here, his Democratic opponent Attorney General Jay Nixon talks about the same subject.

With oil prices hitting $130 a barrel and gas averaging over $4 a gallon, energy is an issue weighing increasingly heavily on Americans’ minds. It’s also promising to play a major role in the upcoming elections.

Both John McCain and Barack…

Polar bears are threatened by global warming, which is melting the ice pack on which they hunt and live. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey predict that two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be extinct by 2050. In January 2007, The…