Energy: Industry and Politics
In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama challenged Americans to reinvent themselves for a new economy, especially in the area of “clean-energy technology.”
Obama said the nation must confront a new “Sputnik moment,” referring to the 1957 surprise launch of a Soviet satellite into space, and to “turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars.” He wants one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015 and 80 percent of U.S. electricity to come from clean-energy sources by 2035. He’d pay for it by cutting taxpayer subsidies to oil companies.
The EPA’s (very small) step on carbon emissions
Idled nuclear driver for government still collecting paycheck
Stephen Patrick, a nuclear courier who has collected a federal paycheck but not worked for much of the last 4.5 years, is still idle, five months after the Post reported on his fight for his job.
Another company out of the running for Obama’s ‘green car’ program
One of the last few applicants for the Obama administration’s green car program says Obama administration is sitting on funds that could create jobs.
Rep. Issa says Obama administration produces too much paper
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the Capitol Hill Republican with a voluminous appetite for investigating the Obama administration, has told the Energy Department it is wasting thousands of pages of paper responding to his document requests.
A welcome move forward on Keystone XL project
Is the fight against global warming hopeless?
There Obama Goes Again: He Hates Fossil Fuel, and He Hates Success
via CNBC
Morning Bell: Did You See the Senate’s Gas Price Sideshow?
via Heritage Foundation
Obama and new pipelines that ‘circle the Earth’
It’s a fun fact, but there’s less to it than meets the eye.
Fact Sheet: 6 Things You Should Know About The Value Of Renewable Energy
via Think Progress
Regulating carbon won't help anything
EPA regulations will have zero effect on achieving the climate that Democrats want us to have.
EPA proposal exempts existing power plants; gives leeway to coal-fired power plants to comply
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration forged ahead on Tuesday with the first-ever limits on heat-trapping pollution from new power plants, ignoring protests from industry and Republicans who have said the regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal, the dominant U.S. energy source.
Who has the better regulatory record — Obama or Bush?
The White House regulatory chief is touting numbers that are far superior to those of previous administrations. But he’s leaving out some important information.
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