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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...
Posted Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 at 12:10 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment
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...
Posted Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 at 5:51 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment
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...
Posted Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 7:10 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment
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...
Posted Thursday, July 28th, 2011 at 7:43 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Environment, Legislation
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...
Posted Thursday, July 21st, 2011 at 6:47 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, National Security, Oil
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, ...
Posted Thursday, July 14th, 2011 at 6:41 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence
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 ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 6:19 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil, Oil Dependence
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...
Posted Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 at 6:38 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas
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...
Posted Thursday, December 30th, 2010 at 8:36 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Security, Environment
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