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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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... -
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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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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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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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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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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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... -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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... -
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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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. -
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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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"... -
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... -
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. -
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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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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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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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... -
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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Column: Foot-dragging has put U.S. behind the curve on energy
December 27, 2004 | Nebraska Delta Farm Press (Ed)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. -
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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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?
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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 --... -
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... -
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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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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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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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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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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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. -
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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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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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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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... -
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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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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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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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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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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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... -
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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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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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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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. -
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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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... -
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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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 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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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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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. -
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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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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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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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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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... -
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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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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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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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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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... -
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... -
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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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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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... -
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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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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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Bipartisan groups of lawmakers to press Senate on emissions:
June 14, 2005 | Boston Globe
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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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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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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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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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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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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. -
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. -
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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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... -
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 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. -
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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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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-pro