Category: ‘ Environment ’

 

This is not about Solyndra

Ben German and Andrew Restuccia reported yesterday in The Hill that there is at least one cooler head in the Republican party when it comes to the DOE loan guarantee program.  The program's big black eye, otherwise known as bankr...

Pipeline Fever

Outside the White House, environment protests are raging against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada is seeking a permit to develop a $7 billion, 1,700 mile pipeline, transporting oil sands from Alberta to Texas refiner...

Shale gas, media coverage, and hyperbolism

The headlines couldn't be more different this morning:  WaPo:  "Energy Dept. panel to endorse shale gas exploration" versus WSJ:  "Panel Calls for More 'Fracking' Rules."  But of course the underlying articles, by Juliet Eilpe...

What happens when the system is broken

Today's topic is the impact that the break-down in regular congressional order has on our energy security.  Leslie Kaufman has an interesting piece in this morning's NYT, describing efforts by House Republicans to exert their wil...

A Keystone of our energy security?

For organized environmental interest groups, the Keystone Center in Colorado has long been a mecca where green-tinged dispute resolution occurs.  It must be a bitter pill to swallow that one of the current hot-buttons in energy p...

DOE Loan Guarantee Program – shooting ourselves in the foot

Back in the day when there was bipartisanship, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Congress enacted, and President George W. Bush signed into law, the Energy Policy Act of 2005.  Before "all of the above" became a mantra, ...

Energy security meets Facebook

In a "first for the Senate, and a first for Facebook," Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Member on the Foreign Relations Committee, will announce introduction of his Practical Energy Plan exclusively on Facebook this morning at ...

The critical path on energy

This morning Jeffrey Ball has a good piece in the WSJ that should be grounds for hope on the critical path item on US energy security.  We've written in the past about the criticality of natural gas to future US electricity price...

Industry needs to address rising concerns over hydraulic fracturing

It was reported yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency of Pennsylvania had fined Chesapeake Energy Corporation approximately $1.1 million for contaminating well water ($900,000) and causing a tank fire ($188,000) durin...

Renewables gaining ground on nuclear, but natural gas still rising

According to the Energy Daily, (http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/US_Renewables_Now_Neck_And_Neck_With_Nuclear_Power_999.html), citing the most recent issue of the "Monthly Energy Review" by the U.S. Energy Information Administ...
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