Category: ‘ Policy ’

 

Evaluating DOE’s Loan Guarantee Program

The old adage that good news is not news seems to apply to Saturday's WSJ coverage of Friday's largely positive evaluation of the DOE Loan Guarantee program by the widely-respected Herb Allison.  Hardly a Democratic tool, Mr. All...

Natural gas by the numbers

Sunday's NYT had a thoughtful piece on the latest revision by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of their estimates about the U.S. natural gas resource base. As Ian Urbina reported: The agency estimated that there...

Political Roundup: Let’s get something done

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...

Top Five Energy Stories of Obama’s Presidency

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...

How and how not to intervene in energy markets

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...

Keying on Keystone

It isn't often that we get to cheer a lead editorial in the WaPo, but today is such a day, as yesterday President Obama did the completely expected and denied the permit -- after the State Department's EIS had found the project sh...

All-In on Energy?

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...

Quaking in our boots over natural gas

The WaPo was a little too cute yesterday in its third-place editorial,  "Extracting natural gas:  How to counter the adverse side effects of a clean-energy source."  The first two lines will no doubt be quoted in public hearing...

Republican Presidential Primary Contenders and their Energy Policies

With the Republican primary election cycle in full swing, SAFE has published an Intelligence Report highlighting the details from each of the remaining six Republican participants’ energy platforms. A near consensus exists among...

Betting big on natural gas

Today's Marketplace section of the WSJ has two articles well worth reflecting on.  The first, by Ryan Tracy and Deborah Solomon, reports on the formal issuance of what's commonly referred to as the Clean Air Act Mercury MACT rule...
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