After just under a year on the scene in it's Energy Roundup incarnation the WSJ.com's energy blog has evolved into
Environmental Capital. We've done the name-change on our (admittedly short) blogroll.
Here's the Energy Roundup's first post:
February 15, 2007, 9:05 am
Posted by WSJ.com Staff
Welcome to the Energy Roundup, a new blog, where WSJ.com editors will compile and analyze the day’s news in the energy sector, including oil, alternative energy sources and the politics and policy of energy.
This blog replaces the Oil News Roundup, a popular feature on the site that began last April, when the price of oil was more than $70 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange and well on its way to a July peak of more than $77 a barrel.
Since then, oil has fallen to less than $60, and there are indications the oil market may be due for a long breather, if not a bear market. But energy will remain a hot topic for the foreseeable future, and WSJ.com’s Energy Roundup will endeavor to be an invaluable source for readers who want to know all they can about it.
– Mark Gongloff
Here's the announcement of the expanded focus:
No, your computer isn't misfiring. Welcome to a new Wall Street Journal blog, Environmental Capital. It replaces the Journal's former energy blog, Energy Roundup. Environmental Capital will track how the scramble for solutions to environmental issues such as climate change is creating new economic winners and losers. It will continue Energy Roundup's tradition of tracking daily energy news. And we hope it will go further, digging into how the energy world, and all of business, is adapting to mounting concern about the planet. We want Environmental Capital to separate green hype from reality -- and we want you to weigh in. Your existing link to Energy Roundup will bring you automatically to Environmental Capital. But do note our new email address:
environmentalcapital@wsj.com. And do jump into the debate.
Here's our thank-you to Mr. Gongloff the first time he blogrolled Climateer Investing:
We got a mention in Mark Gongloff's WSJ Energy Roundup yesterday.The reasons we linked to the
Energy Roundup from our first day?
"Gongloff, a master of any medium he chooses...
...Energy Roundup will be a case study of the craft."
COLUMBIA BLOGGING REVIEW"Energy Roundup has a lot under the hood, tight and fast".
CAR AND BLOGGER
"Energy Roundup-It's a smash, number one with a bullet!"
-BlogBillboard"Energy Roundup is intelligent; To use a tired cliche, a must read."NEW YORK REVIEW OF BLOGS"Just two weeks on the scene, Mark Gongloff's WSJ Energy Roundup is redefining what a business blog should be."
EDITOR & BLOGGER.
Seriously Mark, thanks for the link-back.
Edited 6:34 p.m.-and Kudos to the wsj.com staff.
