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With President Obama’s second State of the Union address set to be delivered next Tuesday, everyone on Capitol Hill is anxiously waiting to hear what the legislative agenda will hold for 2011. While the speech is sure to be do...
Posted Friday, January 21st, 2011 at 3:04 pm | Filed in: Gas Prices, Legislation, Oil Dependence
Anne Mulkern in this morning's E&E Daily has a nice piece about so-called "clean energy standards" otherwise known as "clean energy portfolio standards" or "diverse energy standards." Whether CES, CEPS, or DES, the point is ...
Posted Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 9:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electricity, Electrification, Legislation
This week, Congressional leaders began preparing for a legislative response to the final report released by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Citing mismanagement, systemic fail...
Posted Friday, January 14th, 2011 at 2:58 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Oil Dependence
Over the past few weeks, those hoping for strong energy legislation have been consistently disappointed by the gridlock that has forced energy measures to the bottom of the legislative agenda. This week, legislators on Capitol Hi...
Posted Friday, December 17th, 2010 at 12:33 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation
Capitol Hill was abuzz this week with the debate over the extension of Bush-era tax cuts and unemployment benefits in the tax extenders package. While these hot-button issues dominated national headlines, many smaller, yet impor...
Posted Friday, December 10th, 2010 at 2:02 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation
It certainly seems like Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has been campaigning non-stop for the past few months. First, she lost in the Republican primary to Tea-Party poster child Joe Miller. Next, she ran a surprising campaign t...
Posted Friday, November 19th, 2010 at 8:43 am | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation
“Epic” (Karl Rove)
“A shellacking” (President Obama)
“Party Like It’s 1994” AND “The Empire Strikes Back.” (James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal)
In the aftermath of the Republican victory this Tuesd...
Posted Friday, November 5th, 2010 at 10:36 am | Filed in: Electrification, Legislation
Last week, we noted two particular races that could have an impact on the future of energy legislation in the United States. Well, today is Election Day. And Politico has a list of 10 races related to energy and environment is...
Posted Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 10:20 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation
This week, most national media outlets had their cameras focused solely on the elections next Tuesday. With all this attention, it may have been easy to miss the Obama Administration’s announcement of higher fuel efficiency st...
Posted Friday, October 29th, 2010 at 12:48 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Legislation, Transportation
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