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September, 2009
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Advocates for nuclear power in Germany won a decisive victory this week as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU-CSU (center-right group) and new ally, the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), begin governing. Throughout the elect...
Posted Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at 9:07 am | Filed in: Oil Dependence
Last week Phillips Corp. submitted an entry to the Department of Energy’s L Prize contest to develop a light bulb that emits the luminescence of a 60 watt incandescent light bulb while consuming only 10 watts of electricity. T...
Posted Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 6:46 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification, Energy Efficiency
The debate about peak oil is not a new one. In fact, it’s been around for at least 100 years in one way or another. But the last few weeks seem to have brought an unusual barrage of coverage—probably related to the modern oi...
Posted Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 12:59 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security
This week ended with two back-to-back announcements that highlighted the ongoing guessing game of if and when a climate change bill might pass this year. On the House side, Representative Ed Markey, co-author of the Waxman-Marke...
Posted Friday, September 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
Yesterday the Senate defeated an amendment by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) that was an attempt to force the Interior Department to implement an end of Bush administration OCS 5-year plan. By no means does this defeat mean a tabli...
Posted Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
On one level, the front page story in today's NYT is encouraging -- "Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries" (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/business/energy-environment/24oil.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper) -- as it ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 8:21 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
DNO, the Norwegian oil producer, is battling to save its investment in Iraq after the Kurdish regional government threatened to terminate its license to drill. It has initially been suspended for six weeks and could be permanently...
Posted Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 10:57 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
Columbia recently provided U.S. forces access to several military bases to help combat guerillas and the drug trade.
Hugo Chavez, visiting Russia’s leadership in Moscow, took the opportunity to declare that the U.S. forces in...
Posted Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 at 11:21 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Late last week, the Environmental Law Institute issued a report entitled “Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008.” The report sought to identify and quantify government subsidies to the energy in...
Posted Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 8:11 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Renewables
Thursday, political and energy observers were treated to a provocative E&E ClimateWire lede (http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/09/17/1) that, even though many expected, still managed to raise eyebrows once it was se...
Posted Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 8:43 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
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