Energy executives say the White House has set up a system where only a relative handful of favorite energy executives have access to people who can shape policy.
Prognosticators often lean on tropes to convince audiences that everything is changing — but when Yergin looks at the energy landscape and says "I think this is one time when this time is different," it carries a weight.
ExxonMobil’s expulsion from the Dow Jones Industrial Average is just the latest sign that major oil companies aren’t as important to the economy as they used to be.
Oil and gas companies are hurtling toward bankruptcy, raising fears that wells will be left leaking planet-warming pollutants, with cleanup cost left to taxpayers.