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NCEP graphic in the Wall Street Journal
June 27, 2009 | Wall Street JournalImpact of 'Offsets' to Limit Emissions Is Uncertain Tool for Firms to Avoid Cutting Output Through 'Green' Investments Elsewhere Involves Political, Practical Hurdles Wall Street Journal By Stephen Power June 27, 2009 Full article available here .
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NCEP graphic in the New York Times
June 27, 2009 | The New York TimesHouse Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change New York Times By John Broder June 27, 2009 Graphic available here . Full article available here .
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CQ: It’s Spring: Dust Off the ‘High Gas Prices’ Mantra
May 6, 2009 | CQCoral Davenport writes about gas prices as we near summer.
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Oil & Gas Journal: Stakeholders need to find compromises, panel says
May 4, 2009 | Oil & Gas JournalBPC President and Founder Jason Grumet is quoted.
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Christian Science Monitor: Energy efficiency can deliver big rewards
May 1, 2009 | Christian Science MonitorNew federal standards could cut energy bills by about $16 billion by 2030.
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New York Times: Government Fuel Goals Will Require Higher Ethanol Blends, Study Concludes
April 17, 2009 | National Commission on Energy PolicyGovernment Fuel Goals Will Require Higher Ethanol Blends, Study Concludes THE NEW YORK TIMES By Kate Galbraith April 17, 2009 Article also available here . The Associated Press - If government mandates are to be met, higher ethanol blends will be necessary, a new report from the National...
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CLIMATE: Former Obama adviser cautions against partisan push on cap and trade
March 16, 2009 | E&E DailyThe Bipartisan Policy Center and its National Commission on Energy Policy, in partnership with City & Financial Conference, hosted "New Energy for America" on March 16 and 17 in Washington, D.C.
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Bill Provides $40 Billion for Energy Projects
February 13, 2009 | Wall Street JournalBy Stephen Power The stimulus bill heading for approval in Congress makes a big down payment on President Obama's vision of a low-carbon economy, doling out roughly $40 billion for a modernized electric grid, increased weatherization of homes, and...
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Bipartisan Policy Group Eyes Ways To Aid Industries In Climate Bill
February 13, 2009 | Inside EPAThe National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP) , a bipartisan group that has called for federal climate change legislation, is poised to release in the coming weeks a study that outlines options for minimizing or avoiding potential economic impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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Stimulus Package Called a 'Quantum Leap' for Low Carbon Energy
February 12, 2009 | CQ TodayBy Coral Davenport Environmental groups and renewable energy advocates celebrated the Democratic economic stimulus package as a "quantum leap forward," in shifting the nation's energy economy towards new, low-carbon energy technologies. The...
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Both Versions of Stimulus Would Boost 'Clean Coal,' Renewable Energy
February 9, 2009 | CQ TodayBy Coral Davenport Programs to modernize the nation's power grid, research "clean" coal technology and develop more renewable-energy capacity would receive major funding boosts under both the House and Senate economic stimulus packages. While the Senate...
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Department of Energy May Receive Influx of Funds, Revamped Mission
February 4, 2009 | CQ TodayBy Coral Davenport Under the Democratic economic stimulus package, the Department of Energy would undergo a rapid and dramatic expansion, along with an equally striking transformation of its mission. The stimulus package (HR 1) would effectively double the...
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Bipartisan panel formed to study critical work force requirements for 'low-carbon' economy
January 26, 2009 | Energy & Environment DailyJohn J. Fialka, E&E reporter A new group of experts is studying what appears to be a major obstacle to upgrading the nation's electric grid and launching other energy and environment-related projects that are part of the economic stimulus package now pending before...
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Promise of Liquid Coal is Uncertain
October 8, 2008 | Wall Street JournalLiquefied coal and Canadian oil sands may reduce oil prices but also undercut efforts to curb global warming.
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Energy poised to dominate pre-election session on Capitol Hill
September 8, 2008 | E&E DailyFamiliar battles await lawmakers returning to the Capitol this week, as House and Senate Democratic leaders plot votes on energy legislation even though prospects appear slim for a final bipartisan deal in the short stretch before adjournment.
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National Journal: On Energy, Candidates Straddle The Center
August 8, 2008 | Ronald Brownstein - National JournalJohn McCain has the right idea when he urges an "all of the above" strategy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. So does Barack Obama when he talks about an "all hands on deck" approach. Neither man has produced an agenda that actually meets that standard, but both are moving in the right...
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American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot
July 6, 2008 | The New York TimesJUST 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.
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House Passes Two Energy Bills; More Substantial Proposals Run Out of Gas
June 26, 2008 | CQ TodayAfter 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.
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Carbon clincher: America Weighs an emissions mechanism
June 18, 2008 | Financial TimesDevoid of American participation, the international market in carbon dioxide emissions is a partly formed creature whose health remains uncertain.
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Climate Security Act- Nightly Business Report
June 2, 2008 | NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORTA discussion on the Climate Security Act. Paul Bledsoe and John Rowe are featured.
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New Senate Greenhouse Bill Beefs Up Cost Containment
May 22, 2008 | Energy DailyA 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...
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Key House Dems drafting bill to create carbon storage technology fund
May 2, 2008 | E&E DailyThree 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.
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Senate GOP unveils supply-side solutions for soaring gas prices
May 2, 2008 | E&E DailyRepublican Senate leaders yesterday floated a supply-heavy energy bill aimed at curbing soaring gas prices by increasing domestic production.
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Hunters Worry About Global Warming
April 10, 2008 | Associated PressWASHINGTON (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.
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Top Hunting and Fishing Groups To Release New Study on Threats of Climate Change to U.S. Fish and Game Habitat
April 7, 2008 | Paul Bledsoe(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...
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Commission Congratulates President and Congress on Historic Energy Law
December 19, 2007 | National Commission on Energy PolicyThe 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...
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House, 314-100, Passes Broad Energy Bill; Bush Plans to Sign It
December 19, 2007 | The New York TimesWASHINGTON — 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.
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ENERGY POLICY: House vote will likely send energy bill to president
December 17, 2007 | E&E DailyThe 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.
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Ethanol’s Issue: Getting Acquainted With Drivers
December 15, 2007 | THE NEW YORK TIMESBy 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. -
Senate Kills Energy Tax Package
December 14, 2007 | Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON -- The Senate cut a $21 billion tax package from the energy bill, handing President Bush a major victory.
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National Commission on Energy Policy solicits ideas about the future of coal
November 1, 2007 | Mining EngineeringOn 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.
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House Debates Controversial Energy Bill
August 3, 2007 | Morning Editionby 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.
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Senate Crafts Climate Bill
July 12, 2007 | Wall Street Journalby 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. -
Compromise Measure Aims to Limit Global Warming
July 11, 2007 | New York Timesby 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. -
U.S. Should Limit Utility Carbon Allowances, Commission Finds
March 14, 2007 | Bloombergby 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. -
Jason Grumet on The Diane Rehm Show
January 23, 2007 | The Diane Rehm ShowPresident 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.
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MARGARET WARNER: President Bush took to the road today to tout his new energy plan. His first stop: a DuPont research complex that produces alternative fuel from grasses and wood chips.
January 12, 2007 | The Energy DailyBy 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... -
Bingaman Points To EIA Analysis To Bolster Climate Plan
January 12, 2007 | Congress Dailyby 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. -
The Cost of an Overheated Planet
December 12, 2006 | The New York Timesby 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. -
King Coal is coming back, raising fears it will worsen global warming
October 19, 2006 | San Jose Mercury NewsBy 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... -
Ethanol Gusher!
October 9, 2006 | Forbesby 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. -
Energy Bills Don't Reach Finish Line In Congress
September 30, 2006 | The Washington Postby 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... -
Global Warming Heats Up Capitol Hill
September 18, 2006 | Businessweekby 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... -
Doing it their way
September 7, 2006 | The EconomistJAMES 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...
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California Tightens Rules on Emissions
September 1, 2006 | The Washington Postby 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. -
Revving Up a Bill to Raise CAFE Standards
July 19, 2006 | The Wall Street Journalby 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. -
Study Cites Plan to End U.S. Oil Imports
July 15, 2006 | The New York Timesby 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. -
Energy Independence: A Dry Hole?
July 5, 2006 | The Wall Street Journalby 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. -
Scent of Ballots Is in Air, and Energy Bills Are Blooming
June 20, 2006 | The New York Timesby 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... -
U.S. Needs New Energy Siting Process -- NCEP
June 14, 2006 | The Energy Dailyby 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... -
Commission Sees 'Crisis of Opportunity' Opening Doors for New Facilities
June 12, 2006 | Greenwireby 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... -
Bush Calls For Probe Of Rising Gas Prices
April 26, 2006 | The Washington Postby 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. -
National advisory commission stays alive—and grows
April 6, 2006 | GreenwireBy 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. -
Recharge for the Green Team
April 6, 2006 | Washington PostBy 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. -
Big Businesses Have New Take on Warming
March 28, 2006 | The Wall Street Journalby 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." -
President Bush's Alternative Energy Odyssey
February 21, 2006 | Nightly Business ReportGHARIB: 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...
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Congress's Duty on Energy
February 11, 2006 | The New York Times (Ed)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...
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Senators Seek Stricter Global Warming Curbs
February 3, 2006 | Associated Pressby 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. -
Focus on Oil Praised, but With Caveats
February 2, 2006 | Los Angeles Timesby 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... -
Curing ‘addiction to oil’ won’t be easy, experts say
February 2, 2006 | The Hillby 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... -
Bush's Energy Policy
February 2, 2006 | Philadelphia InquirerYou can't break an addiction simply by switching drug corners. It takes hard work and sacrifice. Often, it's uncomfortable, even painful.
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U.S. Senate Energy Leaders Seek Greenhouse Gas Limits
February 2, 2006 | Bloombergby 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. -
Domenici, Bingaman working on global warming 'white paper'
December 22, 2005 | Greenwireby 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... -
Have to go back & find the title
December 18, 2005 | The Boston Globeby 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... -
Don't blame Romney
December 10, 2005 | The Boston Globeby 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... -
A Seasoned Voice in Energy Debate
October 10, 2005 | Chemical And Engineering Newsby 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. -
US Senate panel begins work on greenhouse gas cuts
July 22, 2005 | Reutersby 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. -
Senators acknowledge climate change
July 22, 2005 | Cox News Serviceby 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. -
Senate to hear human impact on global warming
July 21, 2005 | Scripps Howard News Serviceby 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. -
Running on Empty
July 15, 2005 | Los Angeles Timesby 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. -
Clean Coal Conundrum
July 11, 2005 | Chicago Daily Heraldby 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. -
A lot of hot air on climate
July 8, 2005 | US News and World Reportby 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... -
Iraq pullout would have resounding impact
July 6, 2005 | Gannett News Serviceby 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. -
Washington Tests Oil Scenario
July 3, 2005 | Knight Ridderby 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. -
Senate Resolution Backs Mandatory Emission Limits
July 1, 2005 | Science Magazineby 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. -
'War game' shows how fuel prices could soar
June 27, 2005 | USA TODAYby 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... -
Climate Shock
June 27, 2005 | New York Times (Editorial)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...
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Suddenly the Climate in Washington Is Changing
June 27, 2005 | Business WeekBecause 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.
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A Fossilized Energy Bill
June 27, 2005 | Tompaine.com (Op-Ed)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... -
Senator Says He Didn't Bow to Pressure
June 26, 2005 | Albuquerque Journalby 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. -
Lost Energy
June 26, 2005 | Washington Post (Editorial)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.
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Outcome Grim at Oil War Game
June 24, 2005 | Washington Postby 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. -
A congressional waste of energy
June 23, 2005 | The Washington Examiner (Op-Ed)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.
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Kyoto by Degrees
June 21, 2005 | Wall Street Journal (Editorial)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.
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Senate stumbles in effort to limit emissions
June 21, 2005 | Knight Ridderby 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. -
Two Visions Of Energy
June 20, 2005 | Tompaine.com (Op-Ed)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... -
Bush Faces Heat Over Global Warming
June 20, 2005 | Wall Street Journalby 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. -
Senators gird for major debate on global warming
June 20, 2005 | GreenwireBy 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. -
Global Warming Gains Higher Profile in Senate
June 19, 2005 | Los Angeles TimesBy 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. -
Senate climate vote puts heat on administration
June 19, 2005 | ReutersBy 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. -
Nuclear power splits with its past
June 19, 2005 | Kansas City StarThree 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.
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Global Warming Gains Higher Profile in Senate
June 19, 2005 | Los Angeles TimesBy 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. -
Climate change gains crucial ally in U.S. Senate
June 17, 2005 | ReutersBy 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. -
Global Warming Heats Up in Senate
June 17, 2005 | FOXNews.comBy 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... -
GOP Senator Wants White House Climate Deal
June 17, 2005 | National Commission on Energy PolicyA 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.
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Gordon addresses energy industry officials
June 16, 2005 | Cape Cod TimesBy 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. -
In Senate, Energy Debate Focuses on U.S. Resources
June 16, 2005 | New York TimesBy 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. -
Domenici, White House in talks over global warming amendments
June 16, 2005 | GreenwireBy 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...
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Environmental concerns generate new interest in nuclear power
June 16, 2005 | Kansas City StarBy 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.
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Senate Warming to Idea of Need to Cut Emissions
June 15, 2005 | Palm Beach Post (Ed)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...
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Argus Air Daily - New England Experts Eye Energy Challenge 0
June 15, 2005 | Argus Air DailyCharles 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...
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Charge Ahead: Senate Bill Could Cut Emissions and Oil Imports
June 15, 2005 | Dallas Morning News (Ed)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...
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Bipartisan groups of lawmakers to press Senate on emissions:
June 14, 2005 | Boston Globe
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Alexander: Action Needed To Lower Cost Of Natural Gas
April 8, 2005 | The Chattanoogan (Op-Ed)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. -
An Unlikely Meeting Of the Minds For Very Different Reasons, Groups Agree on Gas Alternatives
March 31, 2005 | The Washington PostBy Greg Schneider
Environmentalists aren't the only ones applauding the sales stumble of big SUVs and pickups in the face of high gas prices. -
Requiem for Yucca Mountain
March 26, 2005 | Salt Lake Tribune (Op-Ed)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. -
Is the 'End of Oil' on the horizon?
March 25, 2005 | Fort Worth Star-TelegramBy 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. -
When Carbon Becomes Money
March 21, 2005 | RenewableEnergyAccess.comBy 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... -
Conrad to hold energy summit
March 19, 2005 | Grand Forks HeraldDrawing 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.
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Energizing Energy The U.S. urgently needs to tap new sources -- and conserve old ones. Here's what the country should do
March 17, 2005 | Business WeekBy 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... -
Senators tackle climate issues during coal summit
March 11, 2005 | Environment and Energy DailyBy 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... -
Senate told coal needs major U.S. help to advance
March 7, 2005 | Platts Inside EnergyCoal 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...
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Power Hungry
March 1, 2005 | Industry WeekBy 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... -
Not Your Father's Ethanol A new blend could reduce U.S. dependence on oil and cut greenhouse gas emissions
February 21, 2005 | Business WeekA 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.
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Blair asked to help Bush see the lig
February 20, 2005 | The IndependentBy 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. -
A modest proposal
February 18, 2005 | The Guardian (Ed)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...
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Capturing Carbon Dioxide: Efforts to promote an existing technology for limit power-plant emissions heat up
February 14, 2005 | Scientific AmericanBy 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... -
A safe, workable solution to our natural gas shortage
February 13, 2005 | Houston ChronicleLiquefied 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... -
The Howey Report...Emotions of Iraq elections obscured energy revolution
February 8, 2005 | The Decatur-Democrat (IN)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.
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Increase in Hybrid Cars Possibly Threatens US Jobs.
January 31, 2005 | University of Michigan News ServiceVehicles 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...
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Blair and hot air
January 31, 2005 | Financial Times (Editorial)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...
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Cleaner air with nuke plant tax credit
January 30, 2005 | The Cincinnati InquirerBy 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. -
Federal energy policy changes may play role in PGE's future
January 28, 2005 | The OregonianBy 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... -
A Warming Climate
January 28, 2005 | Washington Post (Ed)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...
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Power the future
January 10, 2005 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Ed)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.
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GM hybrid: George Jetson, meet the Sequel
January 9, 2005 | New York TimesBy 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... -
Clearing up misconceptions surrounding Yucca Mountain
January 7, 2005 | Pahrump Valley Times (Op-Ed)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...
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Step up biofuels research, development
January 2, 2005 | Des Moines Register (Ed)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.
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Column: Tax credits could be key to luring advanced-technology jobs
December 29, 2004 | Booth Newspapers (MI)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. -
The Time to Address Climate Change Is Now
December 28, 2004 | The Wall Street Journal (Op-Ed)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... -
Global Warming: Whose 'Hot Air' Is It?
December 28, 2004 | Washington PostBy 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 --... -
Foot-dragging has put U.S. behind the curve on energy
December 27, 2004 | Nebraska Delta Farm Press (Ed)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. -
The Reporter (EFueling an energy policy
December 27, 2004 | The Reporter (Ed)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.
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Column: Foot-dragging has put U.S. behind the curve on energy
December 27, 2004 | Nebraska Delta Farm Press (Ed)By Hembree Brandon
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Foundations Release Energy Plan to Government
December 23, 2004 | Energy User NewsWashington, 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...
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Nuclear power's value
December 23, 2004 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Ed)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... -
Toward an energy policy
December 23, 2004 | Salt Lake Tribune (Ed)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.
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Bush shepherds efforts to clear the lines on energy policy
December 22, 2004 | European Intelligence WireBy 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
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Automakers get clear message on greater efficiency
December 22, 2004 | Monterey County Herald (via Detroit Free Press) (Ed)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.
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GM exec urges government not to put hydrogen power on back burner as recent report suggests
December 22, 2004 | Automotive NewsBy HARRY STOFFER
WASHINGTON -- A powerful independent commission has failed to break a long stalemate over U.S. energy policy, industry leaders suggest. -
Key Energy Report Scant on Renewables
December 21, 2004 | Renewableenergyaccess.comBy 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... -
Energy Pulse (Ed) - Recapping Cap and Trade Systems for GHG'
December 20, 2004 | Energy Pulse (Ed)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"... -
2005 should produce an energy policy
December 20, 2004 | Rapid City Journal (Op-ed)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...
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Climate-change debate heats up
December 19, 2004 | Portland Press Herald (ME)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. -
Get-up-and-go energy policy
December 18, 2004 | The Tennessean (Ed)For all its influence in the power industry, the Bush administration's efforts to push energy legislation have run out of steam in Congress.
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Energy commission finds reasonable consensus
December 17, 2004 | St. Paul Pioneer PressBy 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... -
Analysis: Status of Kyoto protocol on climate change (Transcript)
December 17, 2004 | NPR “Morning Edition”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...
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Detroit Free Press (Ed) - Automakers get clear message on gr
December 16, 2004 | Detroit Free Press (Ed)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.
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MINERS BACK CALL FOR GREENHOUSE GAS LIMITS IN BIPARTISAN ENERGY REPORT
December 16, 2004 | Clean Air ReportThe 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.
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IN OUR OPINION: Energy Choices
December 16, 2004 | Detroit Free Press (Ed)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...
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Middle Path on Energy
December 16, 2004 | Christian Science Monitor (Ed)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.
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We need a national energy policy now
December 14, 2004 | Idaho Statesman (Op-Ed)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...
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The Business Electric: You're Probably on the Right Track When Everybody Finds Something to Criticize
December 13, 2004 | Energy Pulse (www.energypulse.net)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... -
Unofficial commission recommends US energy policy overhaul
December 13, 2004 | Eyeforenergy.comWASHINGTON, D.C. (December 13, 2004) – An ad hoc group of professionals has recommended sweeping changes to U.S. energy policy.
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New NCEP Consensus Strategy Includes Nuclear Recommendations
December 13, 2004 | Nuclear Power Today (EIN Publishing)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...
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NCEP Consensus Strategy Includes Renewables Recommendations
December 13, 2004 | Renewable Energy Today (EIN Publishing)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...
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Kyoto's 'Capitalists'
December 13, 2004 | Wall Street Journal (Lead Ed)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...
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New Energy Report: A brighter idea by far
December 13, 2004 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Ed)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.
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Wasted Energy
December 12, 2004 | Barron’s Magazine (Ed)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... -
OIL'S CURSE
December 11, 2004 | Houston Chronicle (Ed)Unfortunately placed reserves complicate production and give unstable dictatorships the power to repress, corrupt and menace
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Blair's Bushcraft
December 10, 2004 | Financial Times (Editorial)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...
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Gas line needs greater incentives to be affordable, report says
December 10, 2004 | Associated PressAlaska'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...
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A Matter of Time: Demand growing for stronger pollution controls
December 10, 2004 | Lexington Herald Leader (Editorial)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.
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Heating up at last?
December 9, 2004 | The EconomistEVEN 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.
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Energy recommendations
December 9, 2004 | Kansas City StarU.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.
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Report urges backup storage
December 9, 2004 | Las Vegas ReviewThe 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.
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US energy proposal pushes toward center
December 9, 2004 | The Christian Science MonitorThe 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...
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Nuclear industry doesn't back temporary Utah storage
December 9, 2004 | Salt Lake TribuneA 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.
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Energy panel chooses compromise path
December 9, 2004 | Seattle TimesA 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.
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Commission Recommends National Energy Policy
December 9, 2004 | RenewableEnergyAccess.comEnergy 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...
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Climate treaty 'puts US growth at risk'
December 9, 2004 | Financial TimesThe 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.
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U.S. is Urged to Adopt a Diversified Energy Plan
December 9, 2004 | International Herald TribuneTrying 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.
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Experts: Yucca 'backup' sites needed
December 9, 2004 | Las Vegas SunThe 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.
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'Balanced' energy plan offered
December 9, 2004 | COX News ServiceA 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.
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Panel Pushes for Energy Security Funding
December 9, 2004 | Associated PressA 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.
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Lawmakers glean ideas, reject others, from energy commission
December 9, 2004 | Greenwire & Environment and Energy DailyKey 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.
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Nebraska already helping to meet energy report goals
December 9, 2004 | Grand Island Independent, NebraskaContinued 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.
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Energy: National Commission Calls for Controls On Carbon Dioxide, Economic Safeguards
December 9, 2004 | BNA Daily Environmental ReportA 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.
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Panelists lay out energy proposal
December 8, 2004 | The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA 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.
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Panel Examines Funds for Energy Security
December 8, 2004 | Associated PressFuture 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.
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Panel Suggests Ways to Ensure US Energy Security
December 8, 2004 | ReutersThe 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.
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Energy group to offer changes to national policy
December 8, 2004 | Chicago Daily HeraldA 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.
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Commission calls for policy shift
December 8, 2004 | Inside EnergyEXTRAA 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...
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Miners Back Call For Greenhouse Gas Limits In Bipartisan Energy Report
December 8, 2004 | InsideEPAThe 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...
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Nuclear power must be a part of the energy equation
December 7, 2004 | Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (Op-Ed)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...
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Panel Calls for U.S. to Diversify Its Oil Supplies
December 7, 2004 | ReutersTo 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.
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Panel Says More Money Needed for Energy
December 7, 2004 | Associated PressFuture 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.
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Energy experts suggest new guides
December 7, 2004 | Houston ChronicleHoping 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.
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