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March, 2010
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This week was a busy one in Washington. With oil prices continuing their steady incline, now over $80 a barrel, the President, Administration officials and a bipartisan group of Senate leaders met at the White House on Tuesday to...
Posted Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 10:20 am | Filed in: Legislation
Today's E&E (http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/2010/03/11/7/) reports on a hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee that folks concerned about energy security would do well to get smart about.
Th...
Posted Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 9:11 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security
Today, in its Energy Source blog, the Financial Times looked at the possibility of a broad switch from coal plants to natural gas power plants. It cites Bernstein Research as predicting that this shift will come despite uncertai...
Posted Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 8:55 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Supply
Every six years Congress must pass a reauthorization bill to set national transportation policy, identifying spending priorities for Department of Transportation programs like the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transi...
Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Legislation, Transportation
A high ranking official at the Department of Energy (DOE) recently commented that given the importance that tax policy plays in our energy policy, the staff at DOE was working to build a relationship between Secretary Chu and Secr...
Posted Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 10:17 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Legislation, Transportation
Much of this week’s energy news seemed to be unsurprising continuations of stories we have been following for some time. E&E’s Greenwire (subscription required) reported yesterday that Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and ...
Posted Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 8:10 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Legislation, National Security
Much is being made of the prospect of new Senate energy and climate legislation that reportedly will walk away from cap and trade in favor of a new, more politically appealing approach. (A good example is a Greenwire article tha...
Posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am | Filed in: Environment, Gas Prices
In a very good article, E&E Daily News reported today that a group of senators are considering a proposal from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP America to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than a cap-and-trade system.Â...
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Environment, Oil Dependence
Greece’s sovereign debt default obviously affects banks and finance ministries.  A casual observer might not expect Greece’s debt crisis to have anything to do with global oil prices. Greece does not have an important role in...
Posted Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 10:41 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Oil Prices
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