As recent cyber attacks on the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce attest, security related to data assets is a top-shelf issue. But it also needs to be top-shelf for the operational sites of the companies those two organizations serve. Site security expert Annie McIntyre tells us why, in Operational Security: A New View of Site Protection.

This month's compendium of business intelligence catches you up with EVs in San Diego and NGVs in Anaheim; solar in Chicago and Morocco; energy beyond oilsands in Canada; a Canadian firm's U.S. HQ move to Olympia, Wash.; strangely shaped maps showing whose oil is going where; the latest from Carbon Motors in Indiana; top-shelf shale gas exploration journalism from The New York Times; and top-of-mind shale gas exploration legislation in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.