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The ongoing disruption of oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz has caused a substantial decline in China's crude oil imports.
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It started last year as a pressure campaign at sea, with the United States seizing tankers as part of what President Trump called a “total and complete blockade”...
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By almost any measure, the world should be suffering a far more severe energy crisis.
The ongoing disruption of oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz has caused a substantial decline in China's crude oil imports.
It started last year as a pressure campaign at sea, with the United States seizing tankers as part of what President Trump called a “total and complete blockade”...
By almost any measure, the world should be suffering a far more severe energy crisis.
The ongoing disruption of oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz has caused a substantial decline in China's crude oil imports.
Amid the surge in US gas demand coming from LNG exporters, there is a lack of equivalent new working gas storage capacity in the US.
India’s SHANTI Act opens the nuclear power sector to private participation while retaining state oversight of strategic assets. The move addresses limits of the state-led model and supports India’s goal of reaching 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047. Stronger regulation and private investment could accelerate nuclear expansion, strengthen energy security and aid decarbonisation.
The White House has just announced over $2 billion in new critical minerals, magnets, and battery investments.
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The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA today announced the release of new research focused on the causes of rising electricity prices in the...
The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA today released a new report examining Project-based Carbon Credit Markets (PCCMs) in G20 countries and Singapore. A...
The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs today announced the journalists who have been selected for the 2026 Energy...
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Dr. Zainab Usman is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia...
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