The New Petro-State?

Energy and environment myths and misperceptions we're uncovering on the Petro-state beat

North America's oil and gas fracking boom has some predicting a long boom and manufacturing renaissance. Consultant Trevor Houser has some new numbers, and a more moderate take.

The real scoop on why CEO Aubrey McClendon is out at Chesapeake Energy -- and it's not because of his salary or personal jet.

Among the world's most developed countries, Turkey and the Netherlands tax gas and carbon use at the highest rate; the U.S., Mexico and Canada tax carbon and gas at the lowest rates.

We ask Ethan Zindler of Bloomberg New Energy Finance if a clean energy boom and the expansion of fracking are mutually exclusive.

A few additional fact checks and comments on "Promised Land," the Matt Damon film on fracking and natural gas.

In our Petro-State podcast, we talk to Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations about the potential of natural gas to transition us to a low-carbon future. And we play fracking BS Detector.

Sellers want a bigger market, but buyers say that will lead to higher prices.

The U.S. is importing less oil, and that will continue into next year. The Energy Information Administration expects the lowest oil import levels in 25 years.

Dead cows in Pennsylvania? Sorting out fact from fiction in the new feature movie "Promised Land" starring Matt Damon, which examines the underworld of the booming industry of hydraulic fracturing