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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
As the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change wraps up in Cancun, we can’t help but notice that not only does broad agreement with respect to carbon regulation seem to be unli...
Posted Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 at 6:18 pm | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Demand, Environment
We're writing today from the front lines of the unconventional gas wars -- or at least a key skirmish in that war. Here in northeast Pennsylvania, where the archery and firearm hunting bear harvest is featured news on the sports...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 am | Filed in: Electricity, Electrification, Energy Supply, Environment, Natural Gas, Policy
Most hyperbolic assertions about the need to move on climate change policy in order to gain energy "independence" are just that -- hyberolic assertions without factual support. In fact, the failed cap and trade bills in the 111t...
Posted Thursday, November 4th, 2010 at 8:06 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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