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The sun begins to set behind crude oil tanks and a pumpjack, July 5, 2022, in Midland, Texas. The IEA’s annual world energy outlook, which analyzes the global picture of energy supply and demand, was released Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)

Gaza has oil markets on edge. That could build more urgency to shift to renewables, IEA head says

By David McHugh - Associated Press

Two man made up as clowns attend a demonstration against the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 16 until Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

At Davos, Thunberg visit spotlights lack of climate action

By David Keyton and Masha MacPherson - Associated Press

The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks at a press conference in the headquarter of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Theresa Wey)

America’s allies join Biden in releasing emergency oil reserves to lower energy prices

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 file photo smoke rises from a factory as a truck loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris. Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose slightly in December compared to the same month of 2019, indicating the sharp drop seen due to the pandemic was short-lived. Figures released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency show emissions from the production and use of oil, gas and coal were 2% higher in December 2020 than a year earlier. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Energy-related emissions up in December despite pandemic

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Plastic-bottled soft drinks are displayed in fridges at a store in Yokohama, near Tokyo, June 17, 2019. A U.N.-backed report claims making air conditioners and fridges more energy efficient and using more climate-friendly refrigerants can significantly slow global warming. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Cool plan: Study says better aircon can slow global warming

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 8, 2017 file photo, fresh nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace as Enbridge prepares to test the east and west sides of the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Mich. Enbridge Inc. applied Wednesday, April, 2020, for state and federal authorization to construct an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the Michigan waterway that connects two of the Great Lakes. (Dale G Young/Detroit News via AP)/Detroit News via AP)

World oil demand forecast to suffer biggest drop ever

By CARLO PIOVANO - Associated Press

The sun sets behind an idle pump jack near Karnes City, Texas, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

U.S. optimistic on supply cut deal as oil prices sag

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A traveler stands on a bridge near a display showing government propaganda in the fight against the COVID-19 viral illness in Beijing, China Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. China is struggling to restart its economy after the annual Lunar New Year holiday was extended to try to keep people home and contain novel coronavirus. Traffic remained light in Beijing, and many people were still working at home. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Virus outbreak blamed for forecast fall in oil demand

Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 5, 2018 file photo, steam rises in the air from the brown coal power plant Schwarze Pumpe in the Lusatia, (Lausitz) area in Germany. Germany's greenhouse gas emissions fell sharply last year, putting the country's 2020 climate goal within reach again.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Global energy-related carbon emissions flat in 2019

Associated Press

The International Energy Agency forecasts that offshore wind energy could become a $1 trillion industry by 2040, with major U.S. growth expected in next decade. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Major U.S. offshore wind energy surge expected in next decade

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 6, 2019, photo, tugboats manuever a container ship at a port in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province. Chinese imports of American goods plunged in July as a tariff war with Washington intensified. (Chinatopix via AP)

US-China trade war weakening demand for oil

Associated Press

In this Tuesday, July 26, 2011, file photo, a worker hangs from an oil derrick outside of Williston, N.D. Discoveries of vast reserves of oil and the slow progress of alternatives in recent years has given rise to a very different outlook on oil prices. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Oil plunges again, reaches recession-level depths

By Jonathan Fahey - Associated Press

$** FILE ** This Dec. 5, 2012, photo shows an oil pump jack in a field adjacent to a sub-division near Fredrick, Colo. Citizen fears about hydraulic fracturing, a drilling procedure used to pry oil and gas from rock deep underground, have made "fracking" the hottest political question in Colorado.$

Falling energy prices could cloud U.S. production boom: IEA

By Mark Pace - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

TRIPLETT: Shale revolution reality checks

By William C. Triplett II

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2013 file photo, a front end loader dumps coal into a hauler at a mining operation at the Navajo Mine in Fruitland, N.M. A company created by the Navajo Nation has signed off on the purchase of the coal mine in northwestern New Mexico. The $85 million deal with Australian-based BHP Billiton is expected to close on Dec. 1. The Navajo Mine is the sole provider of coal to the nearby Four Corners Power Plant (AP Photo/The Daily Times, Jon Austria, File)

Growth in Asia to keep demand for fossil fuels high

By Matthew Lounsberry - The Washington Times

After more than two decades of wars and U.N. embargoes, Iraq is back in the oil market just when demand is poised to surge in a way that threatens to drive up prices to destabilizing levels. (Associated Press)

Iraq’s flood of ‘cheap oil’ could rock world markets

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

HOLT: International relations get a jolt from U.S. energy

By David Holt

Workers move a section of well casing into place at a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site near Burlington, Pa. Fracking uses water mixed with sand and chemicals to break underground rock and release large amounts of gas. (Associated Press)

U.S. poised  to overtake  Saudi oil  production

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

IEA: Time running out to limit earth’s warming

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

** FILE ** The Obama administration recently decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country's emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil supplies caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)

Economic stimulus measures unconventional

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times