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Last night at 3 a.m. the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a five-year, $260 billion reauthorization bill. The bill passed 29-24 in a committee of 31 Republicans and 22 Democrats. The bill would fund trans...
Posted Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 2:28 pm | Filed in: Legislation, Transportation
As January comes to a close, President Obama has unofficially kicked off his reelection campaign with the State of the Union Address, and Congress is back in full swing Has the time has come for some real progress on energy policy...
Posted Sunday, January 29th, 2012 at 12:39 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Policy
Tuesday night in President Obama’s third State of the Union Address, energy once again took a front seat. The speech included provisions to please both sides of the aisle: continuing to increase offshore drilling, expanded clean...
Posted Thursday, January 26th, 2012 at 3:43 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Policy, Transportation
Today, Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) released a new report, Congestion in America: A Growing Challenge to U.S. Energy Security. The report emphasizes the crucial interaction between transportation policy and the challe...
Posted Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 12:09 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Gas Prices, Legislation, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Transportation
Two articles in the Sunday NYT bookended the concept of intervening in energy markets to advance public policy goals or correct market failures. One, entitled "Lobbyist Helps a Project He Financed in Congress," will be more Soly...
Posted Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 7:02 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Energy Demand, Legislation, Natural Gas, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy, Renewables
The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness recently released their report addressing comprehensive strategy recommendations to improve the job market. The report is comprised of a three pronged strategy, “Invest in th...
Posted Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 3:16 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Legislation, Policy
Normally, the big energy news over the weekend at this time of year would be the results of the United National Climate Conference to implement the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, since a large porti...
Posted Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 5:14 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, National Security, Renewables, Uncategorized
Another article this week focused on the growing importance of domestic petroleum production on the global energy balance. The Wall Street Journal’s Tuesday article, Big Oil Heads Back Home, adds a slightly new spin, focusing ...
Posted Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 3:20 pm | Filed in: Legislation, Policy
As this space reported yesterday, the US is now a refined petroleum product exporter -- but we're still importing most of our crude oil. That's why today's introduction of legislation on the Keystone XL pipeline is so importa...
Posted Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 7:41 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Legislation, Oil
The biggest news in politics this week is the collapse of the Supercommittee’s debt negotiations. The committee, composed equally of Democrats and Republicans from both chambers, has worked for months in pursuit of a bipartis...
Posted Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 3:30 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation, Oil Dependence
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