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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
Today's Greenwire (http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/02/25/6/) reaffirms that the Chinese government has their eye squarely on the ball of energy and economic security and isn't about to hamstring their development by capping a...
Posted Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 2:44 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security
A recent Newsweek article about Toyota’s recalls discussed Toyota’s history in the United States. In describing the history of its sales growth in the 1980s, the article noted that
Toyota's campaign of campy advertisements,...
Posted Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 2:16 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Transportation
Yesterday, during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, President Obama publicly acknowledged that the Senate may pass an energy bill without a cap-and-trade component. (Moderates from both parties have been pushing the Administ...
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 7:11 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Legislation
The State of the Union on Wednesday was not the only public sign of a possible shift on energy and climate legislation. Even before the president appeared to back gently away from cap and trade legislation (as discussed in yeste...
Posted Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation
The great Washington pastime of reading between the lines of the President's State of the Union address is in full swing. If the POTUS had last night said "I support the Waxman-Markey bill and ask the Senate to pass it" -- that ...
Posted Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 7:15 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence, Renewables
Reuters is reporting comments from the number two leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer (D-MD), that breathe new life into the on-going debate about whether to pass economy-boosting energy security legislation t...
Posted Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 9:41 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Environment, Uncategorized
This morning's NYT runs a piece entitled Interior Chief Vows Scrutiny of Oil and Gas Leases (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/business/energy-environment/07lease.html?ref=energy-environment) that deserves attention from those wh...
Posted Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 8:36 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence
This morning's WaPo reports (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902874.html?hpid=sec-business) on a Christmas Eve-eve letter that Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell sent to U.S. Interior S...
Posted Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 at 5:57 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Natural Gas, Oil Dependence, Uncategorized
