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The British Government is set to unleash a fracking frenzy across large parts of the country as politicians try and replicate the American energy revolution.

The oil industry always maintains that politics is a job for somebody else – it just gets on with drilling for oil and gas. The line is a fallacy of course, as the industry uses its economic might to prop up politicians that give it favourable tax breaks or subsidies or push its climate destructive policies.

A game of political musical chairs has set off a transition that will hand Big Oil the keys to the influential Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. What's worse, the whole thing could have been avoided.

Leading scientists and American politicians are worried that the the US is trying to undermine the EU's landmark Fuel Quality Directive

There is widespread outrage in the UK this morning at the proposed “Lobbying Bill” that is being debated today in the House of Commons in London.

As protests against fracking in the UK continue, the Netherlands is the latest European country to signal that it is set to press ahead with the controversial technique.

The State of California is fast becoming the front line in America’s fracking wars.

On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians are intricately linked to the oil industry.

Representatives that signed the latest pro-Keystone XL letter received roughly 250% more money from oil and gas interests compared to those Representatives who did not sign the letter.