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Today, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) released a new report, Congestion in America: A Growing Challenge to U.S. Energy Security. The report emphasizes the crucial interaction between transportation policy and the challe...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 12:09 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Gas Prices, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
This week, the White House formally announced its tighter fuel-economy standards for cars and light duty trucks. The new standards, a combined 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, will apply to model year 2017 to 2025 vehicles.
The...
Posted Friday, November 18th, 2011 at 12:38 pm | Filed in: Energy Efficiency, Legislation, Transportation
With the Presidential election season kicking off after Labor Day, Congress back in session, the Supercommittee hard at work, the Solyndra debacle in full swing, and temperatures beginning to drop, summer has clearly come to an en...
Posted Friday, September 16th, 2011 at 1:55 pm | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Efficiency, Transportation
The WaPo this morning details a DOE Inspector General Report on energy stimulus funding under the headline: "Energy Dept. stimulus program lags behind goals, audit says." Whether IG or GAO, these reports really all have the same...
Posted Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 5:10 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security
This week Congressional leaders formed a “Supercommittee,” a12 member panel with the closely-watched task of crafting a 1.5 trillion dollar debt reduction plan by Thanksgiving.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has...
Posted Friday, August 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Efficiency, Legislation
Facing power shortages, businesses in Shanghai will either be mandated or encouraged to cut energy use this summer. China has recently been faced with power shortages due to supply problems as well as a drought. Anticipating extre...
Posted Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 at 6:48 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Energy Supply
The energy policy landscape of Capitol Hill continues to change as Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) announced this afternoon that he would not be running for reelection in 2012. Bingaman serves as Chairman of the Energy and Natura...
Posted Friday, February 18th, 2011 at 3:05 pm | Filed in: Energy Efficiency, Legislation
Congress adjourned this week without a vote on energy policy, and as Senators head home for elections, most in Washington are left wondering, what’s next?
Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on his new, slimmed-down ...
Posted Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 9:14 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Efficiency, Legislation
The EPA and NHTSA recently issued a proposed rule that will govern the fuel economy labels on new vehicles. The newly designed labels will not only include information about carbon emissions for the first time, they also will ha...
Posted Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 11:12 pm | Filed in: Electricity, Electrification, Energy Efficiency
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