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Solyndra continues to dominate the news. Saturday's WaPo front pager by Joe Stephens and Carol Leonnig:
On Friday, the release of a new round of White House documents added more details, whosing concerns among senior advisers...
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 7:23 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Economic Security, Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Policy
The drip-drip "scandal" of Solyndra makes another appearance today, with the "revelation" that the major funder of the project, Obama donor and Tulsa billionaire George Kaiser, exchanged emails with his own staff about conversatio...
Posted Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 4:08 am | Filed in: Alternatives, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
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
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