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It was an important week in Washington in terms of energy news, starting with Senator Lugar’s official announcement of his energy legislation on Wednesday, the Practical Energy and Climate Plan, S. 3464. Soon after, Senator Li...
Posted Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 10:38 am | Filed in: Environment, Legislation
Multiple media cover the release today of recommendations from an impressive group of CEOs -- the American Energy Innovation Council (www.americanenergyinnovation.org). Like the CEO and retired military-led Securing America's Fu...
Posted Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 12:04 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Electrification, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Renewables
One of the biggest half-truths in politics these days is the statement that "the science of climate change is not settled." That's true in the sense that there is uncertainty about the science, but untrue in the implication that...
Posted Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at 8:17 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment
Energy and water are inextricably linked. This relationship is already under considerable strain and will be exacerbated by population and economic growth, and global climate change. More water-intensive energy development pro...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 7:54 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Electricity, Environment
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
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