Archive for July, 2010

 

I’ll take my corn in a bottle, thanks

This morning's E&E ( http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/2010/07/15/2/) continues the on-going debate over taxpayer subsidies for corn-based ethanol -- a poster-child for the government picking winners based on persistent lobbying...

Moves towards greater transparency improving outlook for shale gas

The Wall Street Journal reported today that Range Resources Corporation (Range), one of a large number of independent companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale, would begin submitting lists of all the chemicals and additives, and ...

The Latest on the Drilling Moratorium

In the latest update to the legal battle underway between the Obama administration and the Fifth Circuit, the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced on Monday a new drilling moratorium to halt deepwater oil and natural gas drill...

The Future of Clean Energy: Key Actors and Pivotal Politics

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said “the Senate has got to pass something…before the August break”. Today is July 12. Recess begins on August 9.  That gives Congress ju...

Political Roundup: The Heat Is On for Energy Legislation

This week in Washington, temperatures rose to triple digits and pressure to move energy legislation also rose in anticipation of the House and Senate’s return from recess next week.   With a cramped congressional calendar, Eil...

Myopic regulatory approach foisted on the Lone Star state

An unfortunate decision that should remind us all how the implementation of policy and regulations can imperil our energy security is reported this morning in the Energy Daily (http://www.theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/EPA-Rej...

The Rise of Gas OPEC?

Natural gas will assume an increasing share of the U.S. energy mix over the next several decades. That is one of the few certain trends in the energy field today, rightly identified by a recent MIT report on the future of natural ...

Justifying Green Spending

I was struck by the headline of a recent article in the Guardian last week: “Obama hands $2bn to solar energy firms:  Subsidies for green companies aimed at creating 5,000 jobs.” The money will fund the construction of...

Political Roundup: Can a Senate workhorse push an energy bill out of neutral?

As the week began, the prospects of an energy bill seemed contingent upon a bipartisan meeting of Senators Tuesday.   By Friday, this meeting was largely forgotten and news around Washington centered on a new player in the energ...

Hey, we’re not lagging everybody!

We hear a great deal these days about how the Chinese are eating our lunch with respect to both energy security and emerging clean energy technologies.  Yet, just as we finished ahead of the Brits in our group at the World Cup, a...
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