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June, 2010
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Last night, in an address from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama attempted to combat rising criticism of his administration’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In his speech, he covered four main sections:...
Posted Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 9:17 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Legislation, Oil Dependence
With President Obama’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico just underway, interesting questions arise as to the future of U.S. offshore drilling, and more broadly about the difficulty of managing low...
Posted Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at 1:07 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Supply, Legislation
It was an important week in Washington in terms of energy news, starting with Senator Lugar’s official announcement of his energy legislation on Wednesday, the Practical Energy and Climate Plan, S. 3464. Soon after, Senator Li...
Posted Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 10:38 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
Multiple media cover the release today of recommendations from an impressive group of CEOs -- the American Energy Innovation Council (www.americanenergyinnovation.org). Like the CEO and retired military-led Securing America's Fu...
Posted Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 12:04 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Renewables
Despite the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history and a more aggressive approach towards BP from President Obama in recent days, the Senate is yet to make noticeable progress on a comprehensive energy bill (i.e. a bill which ad...
Posted Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 1:43 pm | Filed in: Legislation
The modified Daihatsu Mira isn’t big, and it isn’t fast, but it did set a record for distance traveled on a single charge by an electric vehicle: just over 623 miles.
For their test drive last week, the Japanese team used a...
Posted Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Electrification, Transportation
This week, with the Gulf oil spill fresh on the minds of most Americans, leaders from both sides of the political spectrum demonstrated their desire to prioritize energy legislation.
In The Hill, Alexander Bolton reports, “Se...
Posted Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 12:51 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Legislation
Last Thursday, both the House and the Senate introduced bi-partisan legislation to advance the large-scale deployment of electric vehicles around the United States. The members of Congress agreed that electrification of light-duty...
Posted Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 9:53 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Security, Legislation, Transportation
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