http://www.energycommission.org National Commission on Energy Policy Mon, 8 Sep 2008 4:06:29 CDT en-us http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6666 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6666 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:21:20 CDT Jason Grumet discusses the energy bill the President signed on 12/19/07, and future energy legislation. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6468 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6468 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:27:29 CDT JUST three years ago, with oil trading at a seemingly frothy $66 a barrel, David J. O'Reilly made what many experts considered a risky bet. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6420 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6420 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:29:28 CDT After weeks of partisan backbiting and blame-trading over record oil prices, Congress leaves town for a weeklong recess with only a handful of modest new energy measures to point to. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6249 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6249 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:44:50 CDT Devoid of American participation, the international market in carbon dioxide emissions is a partly formed creature whose health remains uncertain. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6159 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6159 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:41:42 CDT With the average gas price over $4/gallon, many are wondering if prices will ever reverse. This and similar stories ran in 30 major markets nationwide. Paul Bledsoe is featured. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6096 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6096 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:04:37 CDT A discussion on the Climate Security Act. Paul Bledsoe and John Rowe are featured. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6063 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6063 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:45:37 CDT WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers could reap a $24.5 billion paycheck every year from low-carbon practices like collecting methane from livestock and using low-till crop methods if the U.S. Congress passes a bill to cut U.S. emissions of heat-trapping gases, according to a report to be released on Monday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6059 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/6059 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:29:34 CDT A revised version of greenhouse gas cap-and-trade legislation set for Senate floor debate in early June includes a new provision aimed at containing industry compliance costs... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5651 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5651 Fri, 02 May 2008 11:21:26 CDT With Americans struggling to pay the higher cost for gasoline and groceries, politicians are pointing fingers at Washington. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5645 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5645 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:27:24 CDT Republican Senate leaders yesterday floated a supply-heavy energy bill aimed at curbing soaring gas prices by increasing domestic production. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5643 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5643 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:25:01 CDT Three powerful House Democrats from coal country are working on legislation that would create a multibillion-dollar fund to boost the deployment of power plants capable of capturing and storing their heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5641 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/5641 Fri, 02 May 2008 10:15:23 CDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the American West. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Two-thirds of the country's ducks may disappear. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/4693 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/4693 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:23:53 CDT (Washington, D.C.) - The Wildlife Management Institute joined by eight of the nation's leading hunting and fishing membership organizations, today released a new report - Seasons' End; Global Warming's Threat to Hunting and Fishing - detailing the predicted impacts of climate change on the fish and wildlife habitat and the future of hunting and fishing in the United States. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3783 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3783 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:28:07 CST The New York Times WASHINGTON — Legislation that will slowly but significantly change the cars Americans drive, the fuel they burn, the way they light their homes and the price they pay for food cleared the House on Tuesday by a large margin. President Bush said he would sign it on Wednesday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3512 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3512 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:09:49 CST LIMA, Ohio — If America's great ethanol fuel experiment is ever going to work, Bill Timmermeister will be among the first to know. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3511 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3511 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:06:47 CST Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- The Senate cut a $21 billion tax package from the energy bill, handing President Bush a major victory. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3487 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3487 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:29:12 CST Click here to download the letter. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3325 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3325 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:29:47 CST On Sept. 17, 2007, the National Commission on Energy Policy was in Denver, CO to solicit thoughts about the future of coal from more than 20 stakeholders. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3048 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/3048 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:10 CST Presentations and reports from the Sept. 24 meeting on Agricultural Carbon Markets http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2655 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2655 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:40:49 CST Unfortunately placed reserves complicate production and give unstable dictatorships the power to repress, corrupt and menace http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2653 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2653 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:39:53 CST By THOMAS G. DONLAN The best national energy policy would be no energy policy AS THE PRICE OF OIL RISES AND FALLS, it drives economists to the edge of sanity and politicians well beyond the edge. How can anyone plan for the future if he can't predict the price of one of the most important resources that drives national progress, national income and national wealth? The simple answer: He can't. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2649 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2649 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:32:32 CST Unveiling his energy plan in 2001, President Bush called for unity to pass legislation to prevent widespread power blackouts, skyrocketing fuel costs, and more dependence on foreign oil. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2648 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2648 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:31:07 CST As the world gathers in Argentina this week for its latest group hug over the Kyoto Protocol, joining in the merrime As the world gathers in Argentina this week for its latest group hug over the Kyoto Protocol, joining in the merriment are a few new faces: U.S. energy companies. We thought readers might want to know what's behind this budding corporate enthusiasm for mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2647 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2647 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:28:16 CST The National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) recently announced the release of a new report, titled "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges," that contains detailed policy recommendations for addressing oil security, climate change, natural gas supply, the future of nuclear energy and other long-term challenges. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2645 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2645 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:25:34 CST The National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) recently announced the release of a new report, titled "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges," that contains detailed policy recommendations for addressing the future of nuclear energy, as well as oil security, climate change, natural gas supply and other long-term challenges. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2643 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2643 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:22:55 CST WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 13, 2004) - An ad hoc group of professionals has recommended sweeping changes to U.S. energy policy. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2641 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2641 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:19:46 CST By Arthur O'Donnell, Editorial Director, Energy Central Here's a riddle. Which came first, the release of the final report from the National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) containing recommendations for a long-term national energy strategy, or the press releases from various special interests condemning it? http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2640 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2640 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:17:08 CST Of all the critical issues facing the nation, none is more important than energy. How much we use, what kinds we use, and where we get what we use, all have terrific, and sometimes terrible, impact on the economy, security, and natural environment, not just of the United States, but of the whole world. We need an energy policy; and we need it now. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2639 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2639 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:15:46 CST One of President Bush's first-term goals was a new national energy policy. But it bogged down over such controversies as drilling for oil in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Vice President Cheney's industry-heavy task force, and a gasoline additive. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2638 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2638 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:14:45 CST In commonsense and no-nonsense terms, a national panel of experts has delved deep into America's energy woes and come up with solutions that deserve far more attention than they've gotten. Most notably, this is a consensus report among a group that stretches from the National Resources Defense Council's senior attorney to the chairmen of two energy companies. That they agreed on anything is somewhat astonishing in itself. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2637 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2637 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:13:14 CST The United Mine Workers of America is endorsing recommendations by a bipartisan energy policy commission that call for mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions in conjunction with a new federal program to promote specific clean-coal technology. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2636 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2636 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:12:18 CST Automakers get clear message on greater efficiency The bluntest wake-up call from the National Commission on Energy Policy goes to automakers, which it says already have much of what it takes to make huge gains in efficiency. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2635 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2635 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:11:03 CST STEVE INSKEEP, host: Delegates from around the world have been celebrating a watershed event. The Kyoto protocol on climate change becomes official early next year. For most of the industrialized world, that means cutting back on the greenhouse gases that warm the planet. For 10 days, the delegates in Argentina have been discussing how to do that. They've also been wondering what the United States plans to do. The US has decided not to ratify the Kyoto Treaty. But as NPR's Christopher Joyce... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2634 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2634 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:08:21 CST By GLENDA HOLSTE Cold weather states such as ours have an acute stake in the stalled quest for a national energy policy. Deep into the fourth year since President Bush put forward his skewed plan for energy security, the regional bickering and sharp-elbowed politics of Washington at its worst have left us with nothing but deferral and discord. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2633 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2633 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:06:56 CST For all its influence in the power industry, the Bush administration's efforts to push energy legislation have run out of steam in Congress. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2632 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2632 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:05:55 CST By Bart Jansen Winter may be a tough time to think about global warming, but arguments are kindling for the return of Congress in January. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2631 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2631 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:03:57 CST By John Tsitrian, Journal columnist The failed energy bill of last year, truly a pork-laden piece of junk, did have one redeeming aspect: It set the stage for some serious bi-partisan analysis by the National Commission on Energy Policy (www.energycommission.org). NCEP issued a final report on the matter of energy policy for the United States a few days ago, and if you can take the time to read it - or at least a recap available on the NCEP Web site - you'll come away with the conclusion... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2630 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2630 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:02:31 CST By Arthur O'Donnell, Editorial Director, Energy Central The Business Electric: Recapping Cap and Trade Systems for Greenhouse Gas Emissions The National Commission on Energy Policy is certainly not the first group to recommend that the United States implement a "cap and trade" system for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that have been implicated in an apparent, if not completely proven, change in the global climate [see The Business Electric, "You're Probably on the Right Track,"... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2629 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2629 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:59:05 CST By Jesse Broehl, Editor Renewable Energy Industry Reacts to Report by National Commission on Energy Policy Washington D.C. [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Last week, the independent National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) released their key findings from over two years of research aimed at identifying and seeking solutions to U.S. energy needs. Their consensus may have pleased some major players in the energy game but has left most in the renewable energy community disappointed. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2628 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2628 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:54:20 CST By HARRY STOFFER WASHINGTON -- A powerful independent commission has failed to break a long stalemate over U.S. energy policy, industry leaders suggest. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2627 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2627 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:52:38 CST The bluntest wake-up call from the National Commission on Energy Policy goes to automakers, which it says already have much of what it takes to make huge gains in efficiency. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2626 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2626 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:51:23 CST By but the demands of the extractive industries toppled those of the green lobby. With a new man in the driving seat at the Department of Energy, the US must wait and Transforming energy may have been a top priority for President Bush's first administration http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2625 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2625 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:18:04 CST Everybody says the United States needs a national energy policy, but neither Congress nor President Bush has managed to come up with one. However - drum roll, please - a bipartisan committee of people outside government has done the job. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2624 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2624 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:16:50 CST By Norm Barker, Wyomissing There are certainly good suggestions in the report of the National Commission for Energy Policy, including the expanded use of nuclear power, which you question in the Dec. 13 editorial ("A brighter idea by far"). Nuclear power in the United States has operated safely for decades. Reactors in this country do operate safely and clearly must be part of an energy independence strategy. The next generation of nuclear power plants... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2623 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2623 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:15:13 CST Washington, DC - A bipartisan group of top energy experts from industry, government, labor, academia, and environmental and consumer groups released a consensus strategy on December 9th to address major long-term U.S. energy challenges. More than two years in the making, the report, "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges," contains detailed policy recommendations for addressing oil security, climate change, natural gas supply, the future of... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2619 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2619 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:09:28 CST By Hembree Brandon With all the holiday goings-on, scant notice was given to the bipartisan National Committee on Energy Policy's report on strategies for addressing America's long-term energy challenges. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2618 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2618 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:08:03 CST Report could spark necessary action to conserve, develop energy Everybody says the United States needs a national energy policy, but neither Congress nor President George Bush has managed to come up with one. But a bipartisan committee of people outside government has done the job. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2617 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2617 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:05:06 CST By Hembree Brandon As long as the pumps don't run dry, why worry about tomorrow? With all the holiday goings-on, scant notice was given to the bipartisan National Committee on Energy Policy's report on strategies for addressing America's long-term energy challenges. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2615 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2615 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:00:36 CST By STUART V. PRICE , Alexandria George F. Will uses Michael Crichton's opinions on climate change ["Global Warming? Hot Air." op-ed, Dec. 23] to maintain that no one has assembled firm evidence of global changes. He takes this stance even though: • Thirty industrialized nations -- including Russia, Japan and members of the European Union, but not the United States -- have agreed to hold themselves accountable for greenhouse gas emissions beginning in February, under the Kyoto Protocol. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2614 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2614 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:57:38 CST By JOHN W. ROWE More and more energy companies are speaking out about global climate change. Earlier this month, Cinergy joined the American Electric Power Co. in releasing a detailed report on the potential impact of greenhouse gas regulation. A few days later, the heads of seven electric-power organizations signed a memorandum of understanding with the Energy Department, voluntarily agreeing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 3% to 5% by 2012. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2613 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2613 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:46:49 CST The National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP), a bipartisan group of leading energy experts, congratulated President Bush and the Congress on achieving the most significant improvements in U.S. oil security in more than three decades after the President signed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 into law today. The law's two most significant provisions, to increase U.S. fuel economy by 10 miles per gallon by 2020 and to boost production of biofuels, mirror recommendations made... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2605 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2605 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:19:15 CST Hoping to break the national impasse over energy, a panel of experts today will call for limits on greenhouse gas emissions, tougher car mileage rules and a financial safety net for companies building a gas pipeline from Alaska. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2604 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2604 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:16:46 CST Future energy security will require billions of dollars in government investment in clean coal technology, a new generation of nuclear power plants and promotion of renewable energy and conservation, according to a bipartisan panel of energy experts. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2603 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2603 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:07:59 CST To ensure affordable and reliable energy supplies in the future, the United States needs to diversify its global oil supplies, expand a world network of strategic petroleum reserves and significantly boost vehicle fuel standards. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2602 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2602 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:06:40 CST When British author and environmental scientist James Lovelock announced his support for nuclear power last summer, he was heavily criticized in environmental circles in the West as a sellout to the nuclear industry. That kind of charge is patently absurd, and it becomes all the more ridiculous now that two other prominent British environmentalists have begun advocating more use of nuclear power. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2593 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2593 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:58:11 CST By Rick Haglund Japanese automakers have opened up a wide lead over the domestic Big Three in producing gasoline-electric hybrids, those fuel-efficient vehicles that are growing in popularity with consumers weary of high gas prices. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2591 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2591 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:56:37 CST It's not much of a stretch to say that Iowa feeds the nation. In a generation - with appropriate focus and investment - Iowa could fuel much of the nation. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2589 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2589 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:55:40 CST Of all misconceptions the Energy Department has perpetrated about Yucca Mountain, the proposed site for the nation's first high-level nuclear waste dump, the most insidious is that we have no other option for storing radioactive spent fuel from nuclear power plants. We are supposed to believe that no matter how deficient the site is, and no matter how much DOE twisted the facts and the law to push the project, we have no choice but to go along. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2587 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2587 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:53:57 CST The United Mine Workers of America is endorsing recommendations by a bipartisan energy policy commission that call for mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions in conjunction with a new federal program to promote specific clean-coal technology. Sources say the endorsement may indicate growing momentum for global warming regulations, but backs policy initiatives that are less stringent than a leading climate change bill by Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT). http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2586 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2586 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:53:32 CST By DANNY HAKIM DETROIT -- General Motors' latest hydrogen car prototype, called the Sequel, is being unveiled today at a press preview of the North American International Auto Show here. It is a car unlike any other and a glimpse of a possible, very different, automotive future. Most important, it runs on a hydrogen fuel cell, so its only tailpipe emission is water vapor, not the smog-forming pollutants and greenhouse gases that come out of gasoline-powered cars. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2585 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2585 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:53:01 CST A bipartisan panel Wednesday issued 28 recommendations to break a decade-long stalemate over energy policy, urging adoption of a number of existing proposals and calling on lawmakers to act on climate change and fuel economy. The National Commission on Energy Policy said it wanted to bring about a "gradual but decisive shift" in policy that would strengthen U.S. energy security and address climate change. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2584 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2584 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:52:23 CST We can't keep wasting energy. Across the political spectrum, Americans know that financial, environmental and even national security reasons dictate the need to be smarter about the energy choices we make. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2583 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2583 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:49:48 CST A panel of energy experts, co-chaired by Exelon Corp. Chief Executive Officer John Rowe, is expected to release today a set of recommendations to help change national energy policies. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2582 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2582 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:48:41 CST The United States must diversify its global oil supplies, expand a world network of strategic petroleum reserves and raise fuel efficiency standards to ensure its energy security, a panel of experts recommended Wednesday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2581 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2581 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:46:05 CST FOR THE PAST four years members of the Bush administration have cast doubt on the scientific community's consensus on climate change. But even if they don't like the science, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, one of their closest allies in Iraq and elsewhere, has given the administration another, more realpolitik, reason to rejoin the climate change debate: "If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too," the prime minister... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2580 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2580 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:45:11 CST By JEFF KOSSEFF Congressional action this year could ease the way for companies with utilities outside Oregon to acquire PGE from Texas Pacific WASHINGTON -- When the Oregon Public Utility Commission decides whether to approve Texas Pacific Group's proposed acquisition of Portland General Electric, it could determine the next owner of Oregon's largest utility. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2579 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2579 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:44:42 CST Future energy security will require development of new nuclear power plants, coal that is less polluting and tougher federal requirements on automobile fuel economy, a nonpartisan panel of energy experts says. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2578 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2578 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:42:55 CST A coherent national energy strategy should include greater subsidies for nuclear power, stricter government auto fuel efficiency standards and mandatory limits on greenhouse gases, a private commission said Wednesday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2577 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2577 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:38:23 CST A commission including industry, labor, and environmental group representatives Dec. 8 called for mandatory carbon dioxide controls beginning in 2010 to reduce the threat of global warming. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2576 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2576 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:37:32 CST By G. Ivan Maldonado A tax credit for nuclear power has long been the best means of reducing air pollution and global warming gases. But never before have the circumstances for adopting a tax incentive been so ideal. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2575 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2575 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:36:09 CST The time for Tony Blair to persuade his friend George W. Bush, the US president, to join America's main partners and allies in some common diagnosis of the global warming problem, if not in actual remedial action, probably could not be better. Ratification of the Kyoto treaty has shown Washington that the rest of the industrialised world is far from a push-over on climate change. At the same time, it should allow Europeans to relax the high moral tone they used to drive the treaty through,... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2574 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2574 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:35:49 CST Continued growth in renewable fuels, such as ethanol, will be an important part of the energy mix that will boost America's energy independence, according to a private study by a bipartisan panel of energy experts. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2573 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2573 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:35:03 CST Vehicles with gas-electric hybrid and advanced diesel powertrains could capture nearly 11 percent the U.S. light vehicle market by 2009, but because most of these new drive trains are being built overseas, a consumer shift to hybrids could cost Michigan, Indiana and Ohio more auto manufacturing jobs. "Japan has a substantial lead in hybrid technology and production and Europe leads in advanced diesels, so most of the supplier and assembly work for these new vehicles will probably take place... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2571 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2571 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:34:27 CST Key players in the ever-controversial debate on U.S. energy policy greeted yesterday's wide ranging recommendations for U.S. energy policy, including a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions and more stringent automobile efficiency standards, with an equally diverse set of their own ideas. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2569 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2569 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:32:13 CST A bipartisan panel of energy experts said Wednesday that regulation of climate changing pollution and improved automobile fuel efficiency must be an essential elements of the nation's energy agenda -- a view that clashes with the White House and many members of Congress. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2568 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2568 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:30:57 CST A coherent national energy strategy should include greater subsidies for nuclear power, stricter government auto fuel efficiency standards and mandatory limits on greenhouse gases, a private commission said yesterday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2567 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2567 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:29:28 CST The nation needs Yucca Mountain as part of a broad energy strategy, including expanded nuclear power -- but the government should also construct above-ground "dry cask" waste storage sites, a coalition of energy experts said today. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2566 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2566 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:28:49 CST INDIANAPOLIS - Last Sunday was an emotional day. I was up at 1 in the morning watching CNN and MSNBC, both reporting a series of explosions in Baghdad as the Iraqi elections commenced. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2565 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2565 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:27:58 CST Trying to break a deadlock on energy policy, a diverse group of environmentalists, academics and former government officials published a report on Wednesday that presents strategies for making the United States cleaner, more competitive and less vulnerable to energy shocks. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2564 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2564 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:27:42 CST Liquefied fuel is plentiful, but so is NIMBY mentality By REPS. GENE GREEN and LEE TERRY Inside the Washington Beltway, there is less agreement between the political parties nowadays. The same holds true for the businesses and interest groups that follow Congress. So it was encouraging when a politically diverse coalition of business and environmental groups came together recently to offer solutions to... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2563 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2563 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:26:03 CST The gulf between the US and Europe on climate change yawned as wide as ever on Thursday after Washington told an international conference that limiting carbon emissions in line with the Kyoto protocol on climate change would damage growth. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2562 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2562 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:25:07 CST By Don Monroe On February 16, the Kyoto Treaty will take effect, following Russia's ratification last November. For the next seven years, the 132 signatory nations will strive to curb their emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping gases in an effort to put the brakes on climate change. But how best to achieve this goal in the long term is unclear. Several emissions heavyweights--including the U.S., which produces nearly a quarter of the world's CO2--have refused to abide... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2561 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2561 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:23:53 CST The Kyoto protocol on climate change finally came into effect yesterday - despite the scandalous absence of the world's biggest polluter. Can America be brought back into the fold - especially under an administration for which the issue is hardly a top priority? Jason Grumet, head of the US national commission on energy policy - an independent bipartisan organisation - reckons it can. But not by simply asking the US to sign up to Kyoto. That question, says Mr Grumet, has already been answered... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2560 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2560 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:23:20 CST Energy security for the United States is an issue that is split between the need to diversify the country's energy resources and the reality that the nation's infrastructure is built around fossil fuel consumption. Two years ago the independent National Commission on Energy Policy was formed to research and review the energy needs of the U.S., and their findings were released in the consensus strategy "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges." http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2559 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2559 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:22:44 CST By Katherine Griffiths Tony Blair is being enlisted by a leading US lobby group in an attempt to bring the Bush administration closer to the rest of the world's position on climate change. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2558 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2558 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:21:55 CST A bipartisan panel of energy experts said yesterday that regulation of climate-changing pollution and improved automobile-fuel efficiency must be an essential elements of the nation's energy agenda — a view that clashes with the White House and many members of Congress. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2557 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2557 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:20:39 CST A top nuclear utility lobbyist said most of the industry does not support temporarily storing spent radioactive fuel rods at a proposed Utah site and is solely focused on getting Nevada's Yucca Mountain waste repository opened. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2556 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2556 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:20:10 CST A new white-knight fuel could soon be coming to the rescue of motorists fed up with roller-coaster gasoline prices. It should also get a warm welcome from environmentalists. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2555 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2555 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:19:31 CST The effort to craft a comprehensive national energy strategy got a significant nudge this week. After two year's work, the nonpartisan National Commission on Energy Policy, a panel funded by several foundations, issued what's likely to be an influential report addressing all aspects of energy policy: supply, national security, environmental impact, and diplomacy. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2554 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2554 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:18:18 CST By Jill Jusko As manufacturers' demand for energy grows, an aging infrastructure, environmental concerns and political instability of traditional energy producing countries are wreaking havoc on energy availability and cost. The energy landscape is changing, and manufacturers must be ready to adapt. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2553 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2553 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:18:12 CST The government should build storage farms where nuclear waste can be stockpiled, at least temporarily, in above-ground canisters as a backup to Yucca Mountain, energy experts said in a report Wednesday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2552 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2552 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:16:56 CST U.S. energy policy over the long term will require new nuclear power plants, cleaner coal and cars that get more miles per gallon, experts said Wednesday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2551 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2551 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:16:42 CST Coal is available domestically, relatively inexpensive compared with natural gas and getting cleaner, but needs major federal help to remain attractive to investors, the public and policymakers over the next several decades. That's the general consensus of 25 groups who will present their views to Senate energy-bill writers this week. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2550 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2550 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:15:56 CST EVEN though he was once a Texas oilman, energy has so far been something of a disaster for George Bush. It has brought him nothing but grief from virtually every side of the debate. Even world oil markets have turned against the president: prices have soared in his first term. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2549 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2549 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:14:29 CST By Brian Stempeck, E&E Daily senior reporter A summit on coal issues morphed into a climate change debate yesterday, as experts from academia, industry and environmental groups advised Senate lawmakers on how to advance new power plants that are able to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2547 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2547 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:12:07 CST By John Carey Gasoline prices have climbed above $2 per gallon, crude is hitting record highs -- reaching $56 a barrel on Mar. 16 -- and OPEC is pumping more to keep America's oil pain from increasing. So it's small wonder that in Washington, panicky pols are suddenly talking the talk on energy policy. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2546 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2546 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:10:47 CST Drawing together top energy strategists from across the country, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., will convene the "2005 Energy Security Summit" March 21-22 at UND's Energy and Environmental Research Center. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2545 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2545 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:10:04 CST When the Hummer-lovin' Republican governor of California demands cleaner vehicles, you know it's just a matter of time until this country finally gets serious about reducing heat-trapping pollution. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2544 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2544 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:09:11 CST By Michael Northrop and David Sassoon On New Year's Day, carbon became money. It's the earth's latest currency, and represents the auspicious intersection of climate change science and business imperative. Carbon as currency will have a peculiar presence. There will be neither carbon coins nor carbon bills, nor guarded bank vaults of carbon, nor armored cars to transport carbon safe from theft, nor enforcers out to crack carbon counterfeiting rings. Yet now that the European Union's... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2543 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2543 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:08:49 CST Alaska's natural gas line may need more incentives to be feasible, energy experts say in a new report. The National Commission on Energy Policy report released Wednesday was largely funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Other contributors included the Pew Charitable Trusts, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Energy Foundation. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2542 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2542 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:06:36 CST Tony Blair has declared that global warming will be one of his top priorities during Britain's presidency of the Group of Eight industrialised nations next year. His global leadership ambitions took a knock this week when the government admitted it would miss its manifesto target for cutting carbon emissions. But the prime minister is right to press US President George W. Bush to do more to reduce emissions - even if it falls short of the Kyoto protocol. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2541 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2541 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:06:02 CST By Jack Z. Smith "The last time the United States got really serious about energy efficiency -- after the 1974 oil price shocks -- U.S. oil use fell so low that OPEC was nearly wiped out." -- The End of Oil: On The Edge of a Perilous New World, by Paul Roberts, 2004. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2540 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2540 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:52:07 CST By Bob Loux Without a miracle of some sort, it is all over. Yucca Mountain, the federal government's choice for storing nuclear waste from Cold War-bomb production and power plants, will never open. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2539 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2539 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:10:24 CST By Greg Schneider Environmentalists aren't the only ones applauding the sales stumble of big SUVs and pickups in the face of high gas prices. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2536 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2536 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:51:54 CST By Sen. Lamar Alexander With natural gas prices at record levels and the highest of any industrialized country, last week I introduced legislation that takes bold and aggressive steps to lower the cost of natural gas. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2473 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2473 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:25:38 CST Bipartisan groups of lawmakers to press Senate on emissions: http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2472 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2472 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:18:59 CST Some time in the next couple of weeks, as the U.S. Senate hammers out an energy bill, its members are expected to endorse the first national legislation to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. Without that, we have no way of slowing global warming, which is all the more dangerous because it's hard to see. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2471 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2471 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:14:37 CST Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to remove the RFS from the bill. Both New York and California oppose mandating the use of ethanol in gasoline. Schumer, who fears it would lead to higher gasoline prices, called the RFS an "ethanol tax" on consumers. California claims it could achieve better air quality improvements with its own reformulated gasoline standard. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2470 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2470 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:10:46 CST With the exception of President Bush, ExxonMobil and some hired scientists, few people deny that global warming is (1) real and (2) linked to fossil-fuel emissions. But world and national events seem to be aligning to shake the president's dangerous and nonsensical denial and allow the United States at least to acknowledge the problem. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2469 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2469 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:04:31 CST By JAMES KUHNHENN AND SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Yucca Mountain. For the past 25 years, a nuclear industry already saddled with prohibitive costs and radioactive waste struggled in the face of the worst fears about nuclear power. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2468 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2468 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:59:14 CST By Darren Samuelsohn, E&E Daily senior reporter Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) yesterday acknowledged he is engaging ongoing discussions with the Bush administration on the controversial issue of including mandatory greenhouse gas caps within the energy bill now under debate on the Senate floor. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2467 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2467 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:51:36 CST By Carl Hulse Senate Democrats agreed with President Bush and Senate Republicans on Wednesday on the need to reduce the nation's dependence on imported oil. What they differed on was how to do it. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2466 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2466 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:49:06 CST By Jack Coleman At a forum of energy industry officials yesterday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Cape Wind President Jim Gordon told of reading a business story in that day's Boston Globe. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2465 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2465 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:43:02 CST A leading Republican senator, trying to shepherd a broad energy bill through the Senate, is urging the White House and other GOP senators to support a compromise proposal on global warming, including mandatory curbs on climate-changing pollution. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2464 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2464 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:41:48 CST By Steven Milloy, Junk Science Global warming is a hot issue in Congress right now, but not just because of pressure from the usual suspects in the radical eco-activist movement. Instead, a few businesses are leading the charge — which happens to be calculated to fill their coffers at the public's expense. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2463 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2463 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:39:58 CST By Chris Baltimore The U.S. Senate's top Republican energy bill negotiator, risking a break with the White House over the global warming issue, on Friday said the United States must act to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gases. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2462 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2462 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:38:21 CST By Miguel Bustillo For the first time since President Bush rejected the international Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gases, momentum is building in the Senate to begin addressing global warming. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2461 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2461 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:35:57 CST Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Yucca Mountain. For 25 years, the nuclear industry, already saddled with prohibitive costs and radioactive waste, struggled in the face of the worst fears about nuclear power. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2460 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2460 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:33:58 CST By Chris Baltimore A simmering conflict between U.S. lawmakers and the Bush administration over global climate change could boil over in the coming week when the Senate debates legislation that would require U.S. industry to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2459 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2459 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:32:01 CST By Miguel Bustillo For the first time since President Bush rejected the international Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gases, momentum is building in the Senate to begin addressing global warming. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2458 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2458 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:30:00 CST By Darren Samuelsohn The Senate is on the verge this week of its first floor debate on global warming since 2003, as supporters of two major proposals compete for votes in anticipation of at least one amendment being approved. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2457 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2457 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:26:41 CST by John J. Fialka, John D. McKinnon and Jeffrey Ball President Bush is facing new pressure from key allies -- both abroad and in his own Republican Party -- for tougher action on global warming. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2456 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2456 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:24:42 CST by Frank O'Donnell Frank O'Donnell is president of Clean Air Watch, a 501 (c) 3 non-partisan, non-profit organization aimed at educating the public about clean air and the need for an effective Clean Air Act. In an action that barely made the inside section of most newspapers, the Senate last week voted for a more sane energy future. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2455 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2455 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:22:52 CST by James Kuhnhenn Senate efforts to limit emissions of greenhouse gases to help reduce global warming appeared headed for defeat Tuesday, two weeks before leaders of the G-8 major industrial democracies meet to discuss the threat of climate change. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2454 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2454 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:21:17 CST Something strange is happening in the U.S. Senate -- or at least stranger than usual. The world's greatest deliberative body is hurtling toward passage of limits on greenhouse gases, even as the scientific case for such a mini-Kyoto Protocol looks weaker all the time. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2453 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2453 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:20:06 CST If it seems it has been a long time since Congress embarked upon comprehensive energy legislation, that's because it has. It was early in President Bush's first term that the House and Senate set about the task of crafting a bill that would make energy cheaper and more accessible to Americans. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2452 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2452 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:18:39 CST by John Mintz, Washington Post Staff Writer The United States would be all but powerless to protect the American economy in the face of a catastrophic disruption of oil markets, high-level participants in a war game concluded yesterday. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2450 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2450 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:05:14 CST HERE'S A PREDICTION: At some point -- maybe 10 years from now, maybe 20 -- the energy bill currently wending its way through the Senate will be seen as an enormously significant lost opportunity. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2449 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2449 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:03:38 CST by Michael Coleman The word on the street on Capitol Hill last week was that Sen. Pete Domenici buckled under White House pressure and abruptly dropped his support of a plan to combat global warming. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2448 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2448 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:02:25 CST by Jeff Rickert and Brian Siu The passage of the energy bill in the Senate represents a lost opportunity to take the nation in a new direction. With energy prices soaring and conflict in energy-producing regions escalating, Congress should be enacting a crash program to achieve energy independence. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2447 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2447 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:00:52 CST Because of the carbon dioxide-spewing creations of humans, the scientific consensus goes, the Earth is inexorably heating up. But nowhere is the climate on global warming changing faster than in Washington. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2446 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2446 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:59:05 CST The Senate has now completed work on an energy bill that might actually do some good. But that was not the only surprising news from the Senate floor last week: despite ferocious White House opposition, the Senate went on record as favoring a program of mandatory controls of emissions of the gases that contribute to global warming. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2445 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2445 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:54:23 CST by Kathy Kiely The script read like something out of The West Wing; the cast of characters included familiar faces who have worked in the real one. The plot, involving a series of terrorist attacks and civil disturbances around the world choking off oil supplies, was unnervingly close to reality. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2444 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2444 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:51:44 CST by Eli Kintisch Seven years after rejecting the Kyoto climate treaty by a vote of 95-0, the U.S. Senate has affirmed the science of global warming and for the first time called for "mandatory market-based limits" on greenhouse gas emissions. The bipartisan resolution is not binding. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2443 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2443 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:49:30 CST by KEVIN G. HALL Former CIA director Robert Gates sighs deeply as he pores over reports of growing unrest in Nigeria. Many Americans can't find the African nation on a map, but Gates knows it is America's fifth-largest oil supplier. It provides the light, sweet crude U.S. refiners prefer. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2442 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2442 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:40:47 CST by John Yaukey President Bush has been trying to rally war-weary Americans by pounding home the message that staying the course in Iraq is strategically and morally necessary. On the flip side of that argument are the considerable costs of failure. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2441 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2441 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:38:54 CST by Marianne Lavelle Prime Minister Tony Blair today said the G-8 countries would begin new talks on climate change in November. Leaders of the world's wealthiest nations could not yet reach consensus on what to do about climate change, although they were working toward adopting language affirming that human activity had contributed to global warming to an extent. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2440 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2440 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:37:12 CST by Dave Orrick Every summer about this time, air conditioners kick into overtime across the region, and an army of aging coal burners — the dirtiest of Illinois' power plants — kick into overdrive. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2439 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2439 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:35:27 CST by Dan Neil How far can we stretch a gallon of gasoline? OK, maybe it isn't a question for the ages. But with oil setting new records at more than $60 per barrel, it seems like a good time to ask. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2438 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2438 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:32:53 CST by James W. Brosnan Senate Energy Committee Chairman Pete Domenici today was to begin a series of hearings on global climate change that mark his conversion from a skeptic to an advocate for doing something - he's not certain what - about the problem. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2437 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2437 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:31:14 CST by Jeff Nesmith Republican senators who have opposed action to deal with global warming said Thursday they now accept that the Earth's climate is changing and human activity is the cause. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2436 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2436 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:29:26 CST by Chris Baltimore A senior Senate Republican said on Thursday he will pursue legislation that may eventually require U.S. industry to cut gases linked to global warming, a view sharply at odds with the White House and many other Republicans. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2435 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2435 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:27:54 CST by Jeff Johnson The National Commission on Energy Policy was created three years ago. It is funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and several partner foundations. The commissioners say they intend to lobby the Administration and Congress to support their views. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2434 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2434 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:25:51 CST by By Robert N. Stavins The time is ripe for progressive policy action on global climate change. A scientific consensus points to the likelihood of future climate change due to emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, released by power plants, motor vehicles, and other sources. Likewise, economic analysis increasingly points to the wisdom of policy action. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2433 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2433 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:23:21 CST by Drake Bennett When Governor Mitt Romney pulled Massachusetts out of a pioneering pact to limit the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants in nine Northeastern states, many of the pact's supporters, a group comprising not only environmentalists and Democrats but prominent business leaders and Republican officials from the other eight states, privately speculated that the governor was primarily concerned about his presidential prospects. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2432 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2432 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:21:27 CST by Mary O'Driscoll and Darren Samuelsohn, E&E Daily senior reporters Senior Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee staff members are in the early stages of drafting a white paper on emissions credit allocations to address the single issue that kept committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) from signing on to a greenhouse gas reduction plan last summer. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2431 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2431 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:20:05 CST by Tina Seeley The chairman and ranking Democrat of the U.S. Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued a paper today seeking feedback on how to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a step aimed at developing a consensus on climate change legislation. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2430 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2430 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:18:48 CST You can't break an addiction simply by switching drug corners. It takes hard work and sacrifice. Often, it's uncomfortable, even painful. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2429 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2429 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:14:15 CST by Jim Snyder President Bush's solutions to the country's "addiction to oil" may not have reached "moon shot" or Manhattan Project proportions. But energy experts say cutting Middle Eastern oil imports by 75 percent won't be easy, even though those imports only account for around 20 percent of the oil consumed here. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2428 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2428 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:10:33 CST by Jonathan Peterson and Elizabeth Douglass In declaring in his State of the Union address that America is "addicted to oil" and pledging bold action to find alternative fuel sources, especially for automobiles, President Bush adopted rhetoric that had previously been heard more often from environmentalists than from the White House. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2427 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2427 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:08:16 CST by John Heilprin New Mexico's two senators laid out a path Thursday toward creating what they hope will become the nation's first mandatory program for trading greenhouse gases in the marketplace. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2426 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2426 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:06:28 CST Senator Pete Domenici told a recent gathering of experts that if Congress is going to do anything useful this year about the two big energy-related questions of our time — oil dependency and global warming — it will have to focus on "four or five big things" instead of the usual laundry list of tax breaks, subsidies and modest research programs. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2425 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2425 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:04:39 CST GHARIB: Paul, President Bush is on the road this week, promoting his new energy initiative and renewing his call for an end to the nation`s oil addiction. But while the president is talking about new spending initiatives, there`s no new money in the budget to spend. As Stephanie Dhue reports, the budget itself shows the money that`s there is just being moved around. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2424 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2424 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:02:44 CST by John J. Fialka WASHINGTON -- The global warming debate on Capitol Hill is focused on whether the federal government should impose stricter emissions rules. But a key Senate panel is shifting the discussion from "whether" to "how." http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2423 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2423 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:41 CST By Judy Sarasohn It's hard to go out of business in Washington. The National Commission on Energy Policy is the latest group to find that out. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2422 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2422 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:59:04 CST By Ben Geman An energy policy group that produced a major suite of recommendations in late 2004 -- including a methodology for capping carbon dioxide emissions -- will stay in business longer than anticipated and add several new members and advisers, the group announced today. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2421 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2421 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:57:16 CST by Jim VandeHei and Steven Mufson With gas prices expected to hover at record highs through summer, President Bush yesterday called for price-fixing investigations and several measures aimed at holding down the fast-rising costs of driving. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2420 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2420 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:51:16 CST by Mary O'Driscoll The group that helped jump-start efforts to enact last year's massive energy bill turned its attention today to building power plants, liquefied natural gas import terminals, pipelines and electricity transmission lines to accommodate the nation's growing hunger for energy. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2416 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2416 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:46:30 CST by Chris Holly In a comprehensive look at the nation's pressing energy infrastructure needs, a report by the National Commission on Energy Policy concludes that policymakers must seek out "new and innovative siting procedures" that clearly illustrate the costs and benefits of a given project or risk facing the same determined opposition that has slowed or killed proposals for new energy projects over the past three decades. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2415 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2415 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:45:13 CST by Michael Janofsky Senator Larry E. Craig, Republican of Idaho, has introduced a bill that would allow American oil companies to work in partnership with Cuba, drilling for energy supplies off its coastline. A proposed measure from Representative Maurice D. Hinchey, Democrat of New York, would eliminate a slew of tax breaks for oil and gas companies. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2414 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2414 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:43:44 CST by John J. Fialka WASHINGTON -- The U.S. may be addicted to oil, but many of its politicians are addicted to "energy independence" -- which may be among the least realistic political slogans in American history. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2413 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2413 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:41:53 CST by Matt Wald American imports of oil could be eliminated by 2030, a new study by an interstate consortium asserts, if the nation turns to an aggressive program of energy efficiency and commercialization of four already-demonstrated technologies for making transportation fuels. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2412 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2412 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:40:22 CST by Laura Meckler A bipartisan group of senators is trying a new tack in the long-standing effort to raise fuel economy standards: Require an increase unless the Transportation Department can show that's a bad idea. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2411 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2411 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:37:45 CST by Juliet Eilperin California's legislature approved the broadest restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation yesterday, marking a new stage in the accelerating drive for a more aggressive national response to global warming. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2410 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2410 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:36:00 CST JAMES INHOFE, chairman of the American Senate's environment and public works committee, has described the threat of catastrophic global warming as the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people". His fellow Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, has a different take: "I say the debate is over. We know the science. We see the threat. And we know the time for action is now." http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2409 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2409 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:34:00 CST by John Carey In the Summer of 2005, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) proposed a bill calling for modest mandatory limits on emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The utility industry and its Washington-based trade group, the Edison Electric Institute, publicly opposed such curbs. Yet even as the bill failed to win support, some executives at EEI's annual meeting privately voiced a heretical idea. The next President will be more aggressive in taking action against... http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2408 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2408 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:32:32 CST by Steven Mufson When oil prices punched through $75 a barrel and gasoline topped $3 a gallon five months ago, members of Congress offered a raft of proposals, ranging from more U.S. drilling to windfall profits taxes to antitrust investigations. They railed against oil executives' pay packages, and some called for higher gasoline mileage standards. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2407 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2407 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:30:45 CST by Jessica Holzer High oil prices, a heavy dose of government largesse and the gathering interest among consumers and politicians in weaning America from its petroleum habit have combined to set off a craze for ethanol among investors--from Bill Gates and Richard Branson on down. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2406 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2406 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:28:52 CST By Robert S. Boyd Thanks to the high prices of oil and natural gas, the electricity industry is turning back to coal, America's oldest and most abundant fossil fuel, to drive a new generation of power plants. The upshot is that even as politicians take the threat of global warming more seriously, the problem may get much worse. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2405 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2405 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:26:40 CST by Steve Lohr The iconic culprit in global warming is the coal-fired power plant. It burns the dirtiest, most carbon-laden of fuels, and its smokestacks belch millions of tons of carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2404 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2404 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:23:39 CST by Darren Goode Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Bingaman's aides say a new Energy Information Administration analysis shows his plan for dealing with global warming will have a minimal impact on the economy. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2403 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2403 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:21:42 CST By Chris Holly Draft legislation by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman to require modest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would have a negligible impact on the U.S. economy, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Energy Information Administration. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2402 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2402 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:19:07 CST President Bush Proposes New Energy Initiatives In his State of the Union address, President Bush called for new domestic initiatives aimed at decreasing gas consumption by expanding the role of alternative fuels. Three energy experts analyze the viability of the president's proposed energy reforms. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2401 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2401 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:08:46 CST by Jim Efstathiou Jr. Any cap and trade program Congress creates to address global warming should give no more than half of the tradable emission allowances to power producers, manufacturers and other producers of greenhouse gases, the National Commission on Energy Policy said. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2126 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2126 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:50:50 CST by JOHN M. BRODER Influential senators from both parties, backed by unions and some large electrical utilities, will unveil a new global warming proposal on Wednesday that could form the basis of a climate change compromise that has so far eluded Congress. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2119 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2119 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:36:57 CST by John A. Fialka Congressional efforts to address climate change took a step forward with the introduction of a Senate bill backed by Republicans and Democrats working with labor unions and major utilities to regulate carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2115 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2115 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:31:05 CST by NPR The House of Representatives today takes up the first energy bill written by Democrats in more than a decade. And what's not in the bill is probably as important as what is in the bill, as NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2112 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2112 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:23:51 CST By CHRISTOPHER MAAG LIMA, Ohio — If America's great ethanol fuel experiment is ever going to work, Bill Timmermeister will be among the first to know. http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2104 http://www.energycommission.org/ht/d/ArticleDetails/i/2104 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:18:54 CST The House will likely approve a broad energy bill tomorrow that raises auto mileage standards and ramps up ethanol use, and President Bush plans to sign the measure into law.