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This week, the White House formally announced its tighter fuel-economy standards for cars and light duty trucks. The new standards, a combined 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, will apply to model year 2017 to 2025 vehicles.
The...
Posted Friday, November 18th, 2011 at 12:38 pm | Filed in: Energy Efficiency, Legislation, Transportation
This week, The Hill reported that House Republicans are planning to introduce a bill to use oil drilling revenues for infrastructure developments. Speaker of the House John Boehner has described the bill as the “opposite of st...
Posted Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 12:36 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence
Yesterday, Jonathan Silver, the head of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) loan guarantee program, announced he is stepping down from his position to become a distinguished visiting fellow at centrist think tank Third Way. Secre...
Posted Friday, October 7th, 2011 at 12:08 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence, Renewables
Here's some advice for entrepenueurs, b-school grads, small business owners and others: if your business plan depends on Congress passing and the President signing groundbreaking legislation within a time-certain, rethink your ...
Posted Thursday, October 6th, 2011 at 7:40 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electricity, Legislation, Policy, Renewables, Uncategorized
Much has happened in Congress this past week relating to energy issues. There’s a new push to open the Arctic National Wildlife Rescue (ANWR) to drilling. The GOP faced a setback as the house failed to pass a temporary extensi...
Posted Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Filed in: Automotive, Environment, Legislation
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Last week, President Obama warned Congress that a delay in passing a federal highway extension would put as many as 1 million ...
Posted Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at 9:59 am | Filed in: Legislation, Policy, Transportation
This week Congressional leaders formed a “Supercommittee,” a12 member panel with the closely-watched task of crafting a 1.5 trillion dollar debt reduction plan by Thanksgiving.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has...
Posted Friday, August 12th, 2011 at 11:13 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Efficiency, Legislation
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
The impasse on the debt ceiling and federal deficit has once again put all other legislation – including energy security – at a standstill. But just like Social Security and Medicare reform, petroleum dependence is an issue ...
Posted Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 at 2:07 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence
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
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