Category: ‘ Environment ’

 

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...

Critical ARPA-E program surviving narrowly, so far

As Congress continues to barely fulfill its key constitutional duty to appropriate funds for the operation of the government, a continuing resolution (CR) that passed the House yesterday at least holds out some hope that one of ...

Is Smart Money Looking at Coal?

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...

Not so fast on the dash to gas

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...

Climate change and energy security

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...
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