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John Broder has a good piece in today's NYT on the unveiling of the Kerry-Lieberman climate and energy bill (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/science/earth/13climate.html?ref=todayspaper). Multiple other media sources cover as ...
Posted Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at 5:54 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence
With so much attention focused on the oil spill in the Gulf, let's take heart from a key interagency task force meeting today in Washington that's focused on a different energy and environmental issue: how to deploy carbon cap...
Posted Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at 8:02 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
Hard-core representatives of organized environmental interest groups (aka "enviros") like to believe that the challenge of global climate change merits action on its own, with no consideration for political deals or trade-offs. ...
Posted Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 6:45 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, National Security
On Saturday night Seth Myers, sporting his usual grin and dishing out his weekly dose of rapid-fire news satire on the Weekend Update portion of SNL, offered a brief plug (if you will) to electric vehicles: “FedEx announced this...
Posted Monday, April 12th, 2010 at 10:00 am | Filed in: Electrification, Environment
What would be a game changer in the energy debate? A brand-new technology? Maybe, but unrealistic. A sudden discovery of new supplies of some crucial fuel? Less of a game changer, and still unrealistic. How about somethi...
Posted Friday, April 9th, 2010 at 10:58 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Gas Prices
Much is being made of the prospect of new Senate energy and climate legislation that reportedly will walk away from cap and trade in favor of a new, more politically appealing approach. (A good example is a Greenwire article tha...
Posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am | Filed in: Environment, Gas Prices
In a very good article, E&E Daily News reported today that a group of senators are considering a proposal from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP America to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than a cap-and-trade system.Â...
Posted Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 11:06 am | Filed in: Environment, Oil Dependence
Sheila McNulty and Ed Crooks have a good piece in this morning's FT about recent departures from the strange-bedfellow coalition that has been the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP.
(http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe85190a-1...
Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 7:21 am | Filed in: Environment, Natural Gas, Oil Prices
On February 1, the Office of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates issued the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). A Congressionally-mandated review of Department of Defense (DoD) strategies and priorities, the QDR reflects the si...
Posted Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 8:10 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, National Security
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
