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Every six years Congress must pass a reauthorization bill to set national transportation policy, identifying spending priorities for Department of Transportation programs like the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transi...
Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
A high ranking official at the Department of Energy (DOE) recently commented that given the importance that tax policy plays in our energy policy, the staff at DOE was working to build a relationship between Secretary Chu and Secr...
Posted Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 10:17 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
Much is being made of the prospect of new Senate energy and climate legislation that reportedly will walk away from cap and trade in favor of a new, more politically appealing approach. (A good example is a Greenwire article tha...
Posted Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am | Filed in: Environment, Gas Prices, Uncategorized
Sheila McNulty and Ed Crooks have a good piece in this morning's FT about recent departures from the strange-bedfellow coalition that has been the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP.
(http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe85190a-1...
Posted Thursday, February 18th, 2010 at 7:21 am | Filed in: Environment, Natural Gas, Oil Prices, Uncategorized
While much focus in the energy security debate goes to military expenditures -- spending America's "blood and treasure" keeping oil flowing freely, The Economist (www.economist.com) reminds us of another financial cost of our ener...
Posted Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 8:59 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
On February 1, the Office of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates issued the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). A Congressionally-mandated review of Department of Defense (DoD) strategies and priorities, the QDR reflects the si...
Posted Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 8:10 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
The push continues by a growing number of bipartisan Senators to bring the Senate Energy and Natural Resources energy-only bill brought to the floor then possibly attack carbon emissions at a later time. The President, in a to...
Posted Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 8:01 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
Yesterday the Obama administration released its 2011 budget proposal, and as yesterday’s EPIC blog anticipated, much-needed support for new nuclear power plants is requested. There is a lot more on energy in the budget, however,...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 10:09 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
Later today, we expect to learn that the President’s FY 2011 budget will include $54 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power plants. This is a critical step forward to the revitalization of the nucle...
Posted Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 4:47 am | Filed in: Electricity, Energy Supply, Nuclear, Uncategorized
A SAFE Intelligence Report published this month (not yet publicly available) discusses the issue of energy infrastructure cyber security – in other words, the vulnerability of our nation’s electricity, oil, and gas facilities ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 7:56 am | Filed in: Uncategorized
