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The Long Road of Transportation Reauthorization

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...

Getting Secretaries Chu and Geithner Together for Lunch

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...

Cap and trade; bait and switch

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...

US CAP fracturing?

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...

America’s trade deficit: another side of energy insecurity

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...

Energy Security in the Quadrennial Defense Review

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...

Weekly Political Roundup – Kicking the Can?

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...

2011 Budget Emphasizes Energy, but Fails to Draw Connection to Transportation

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,...

A Nuclear Renaissance

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...

Cyber attacks threaten major oil companies

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 ...