Archive for
March, 2010
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Today, President Obama announced that the federal government will pursue oil and natural gas exploration and development in areas off the Atlantic Coast and Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Signaling its intention to promote greater dome...
Posted Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at 9:35 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence
The Department of Education’s “Race to the Top,” is a competition between states that will award funds to states that are leading the way with ambitious plans for implementing coherent, compelling, and comprehensive educatio...
Posted Monday, March 29th, 2010 at 4:04 pm | Filed in: Electrification
The health care debate cast a long shadow over the remainder of the legislative laundry list. So now that the storm has passed, energy and climate are beginning to come into focus. E&E’s Darren Samuelsohn learned of the Kerr...
Posted Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 10:25 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Legislation
The French government yesterday turned down a proposal to place a tax on carbon emissions—President Nicholas Sarkozy had been pushing the idea as an environmental policy with long-term fiscal benefits. Ministers and members of...
Posted Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 7:13 am | Filed in: Legislation
This morning, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) held a panel entitled “Resurrecting the Patchwork Strategy: Top-Down or Bottom-Up Approach to Energy and Climate Policy?” However slowly climate polic...
Posted Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 8:38 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency
In talking about the reasons to support electrification of the short-haul transportation system, we frequently hear advocates explain how it will reduce dependence on oil by diversifying our fuel supply, how it is cleaner than gas...
Posted Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at 11:45 am | Filed in: Electrification, Transportation
This week featured almost daily headlines about the bipartisan climate/energy effort by Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), as those senators shared an eight-page summary with stakeholders ...
Posted Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 7:34 am | Filed in: Legislation
This site blogged yesterday about OPEC's decision to fix prices at $80 per barrel of oil. This morning's WaPo piece by Steven Mufson ("OPEC will hold oil prices, production steady -- for now" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...
Posted Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 6:19 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Gas Prices, National Security, Oil Dependence
The price of oil continued its steady upward climb yesterday as OPEC member nations decided that changes to their output ceiling would not be needed this year. NYMEX crude futures are trading at over $82 per barrel this morning....
Posted Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 7:47 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil Prices
This afternoon, the House Science and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing on “Rare Earths and 21st Century Industry.” Though you may have never heard of rare earths, they are cr...
Posted Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 3:01 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electrification
