Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, discusses falling oil prices. Bazilian says a weakening economy, like the U.S. is currently experiencing, will drive oil prices down.

Ian Lange, associate professor, Economics and Business, is interviewed about oil prices. He notes that recent price drops impact the U.S. more because it is, thanks to the shale revolution, the largest producer of oil.

Ian Lange, associate professor of economics and business, explains how the threat of tariffs are driving copper prices.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, is interviewed about how a new presidential administration's focus is likely, or not likely, to have a longterm impact on how we use and produce energy, or protect the environment. Bazilian says the longterm change is likely to be small because of the immense size of the industry.

Ian Lange, an associate professor of economics and business at Mines, is interviewed for this National Public Radio program.“People have called (gas) a bridge fuel, because it (has a) lower CO2 content than coal. It’s pretty flexible in terms of its operations,” Lange said.

Morgan Bazilian, director of The Payne Institute for Public Policy, is quoted in this radio piece. In his final days as president, Joe Biden has promised to ban drilling in more than 600 million acres off the coast of the western U.S. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has promised to undo the ban, as well as much of Biden’s climate and conservation efforts.

But economies in the rest of the world aren’t really in a position to buy up that steel either, said Ian Lange, an economics professor at the Colorado School of Mines. “There’s just not another place around the world that looks like there’s going to ....

“Anyone who models the energy system would be familiar with the huge range of results that we see, the uncertainty we see, the volatility we see,” noted Morgan Bazilian, who teaches public policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

“China’s looking better, the U.S. is going gangbusters,” said Ian Lange, director of the Mineral and Energy Economics program at the Colorado School of Mines.

“The earlier melt that we’ve been seeing for quite a while is a relatively clear climate change signal,” said Adrienne Marshall, a hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines.