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After many weeks of indisputably contentious negotiations, Congress has passed a debt ceiling compromise before leaving for August recess. The resulting agreement gives little for clean energy advocates to celebrate, as it wil...
Posted Friday, August 5th, 2011 at 11:05 am | Filed in: Gas Prices, National Security, Oil Dependence
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...
Posted Thursday, July 21st, 2011 at 6:47 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, National Security, Oil
While there are still many changes to make to reduce America’s dependence on oil, this past week’s National Summit on Energy Security certainly was a step in the right direction. Tuesday night’s Congressional Reception and W...
Posted Friday, July 15th, 2011 at 10:25 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence, Policy
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
The countdown is almost over: tomorrow, policymakers, industry leaders and business executives will gather to discuss the intensifying threats posed by our nation’s oil dependence, and consider solutions that will strengthen o...
Posted Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 12:32 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
The U.S. military is the single largest industrial consumer of oil in the world. On an annual basis, it consumes approximately 125 million barrels of oil. The vast majority of U.S. aircraft, tanks and vehicles run on petroleum...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 at 6:16 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Policy, Renewables
On Friday, it was reported that al Qaeda has a “continuing interest” in attacking oil and gas infrastructure. The warning came from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI as a result of information obtained during t...
Posted Monday, May 23rd, 2011 at 6:16 am | Filed in: Economic Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Robert Burns of the AP has a very important story today on our increasingly close defense-related ties with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is also interesting that the news preceding today's POTUS speech on the Middle East was ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 1:24 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
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