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Navy’s Use of Biofuels Could Trigger Private-Sector Adoption
August 16, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The Navy's use of advanced biofuels could help spur private-sector investment, said Dennis McGinn, President Obama's newly confirmed assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations, and environment. "The private-sector benefits are the military's ability to do some pretty good analysis, to manage risk, and to introduce innovative materials and ...
Why and How Obama Will (Probably) Approve Keystone XL
July 2, 2013 Gazing into my columnist's crystal ball on a steamy summer day when many in the Obama administration have climate change on their minds, I see a decision coming on the Keystone XL pipeline on a cold December day when most people have holiday shopping on their minds. Based on conversations ...
Analysis: Can We Regulate Our Way Out of Climate Change?
July 1, 2013 Bypassing Capitol Hill, President Obama is throwing his political power behind his administration’s actions to combat global warming. “For the sake of our children, and the health and safety of all Americans, I’m directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from ...
Obama's Last Hope for Climate Change: EPA
June 25, 2013 President Obama is ready to take one more shot at combating global warming with the last, least-popular, and messiest tool he's got left: regulations administered by the politically besieged Environmental Protection Agency. It won't be popular, it might not work, and it could cost him his pick to head EPA. ...
Energy Department Weighs Permits for Exporting Natural Gas
May 21, 2013 Christopher Smith, the Energy Department official in charge of shaping the Obama administration’s policy on exporting natural gas, recalls working for Chevron on an import facility during the first part of the last decade. At the time, U.S. reserves were thought to be scarce and fuel prices were accordingly high. ...
GOP Forces Gridlock Over Obama’s Nominees for EPA, Labor
May 9, 2013 Senate Republicans are forcing partisan debates about the role of the executive branch and its commitment to transparency by blocking the confirmation of two of President Obama’s nominees to top positions within his administration. There doesn’t yet seem to be any clear resolution to the stalemate, which is holding up ...
What the Senate Energy Panel Would Look Like Under Chairwoman Landrieu
April 30, 2013 If Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., takes over the gavel of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee next Congress, she is in a prime spot to lead on an issue that’s critically important to her state—energy—and finally get past the finish line her signature policy issue: energy revenue-sharing for coastal states. ...
Energy Nominee Blocked Over Cuts at S.C. Nuclear-Waste Plant
April 24, 2013 In his recent confirmation hearing, Ernest Moniz told senators that one of his very first trips as Energy secretary would be to Hanford, the troublesome nuclear-waste site in Washington state. But Moniz might be wise to detour down to South Carolina on his way in light of a move Tuesday ...
Besieged Regulator Appointed to Nuclear-Weapons Panel
April 18, 2013 Late in the evening on Wednesday, one of the busiest and most unnerving times Washington has seen in a long while, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid quietly appointed a controversial former nuclear-energy regulator to a key but obscure panel. Reid appointed Gregory Jaczko, the beleaguered former chairman of the Nuclear ...
Senator to Grill Obama's Energy Nominee on Nuclear-Waste Site
April 8, 2013 On Tuesday, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ernest Moniz, President Obama’s nominee for Energy secretary, are going to square off like it’s 1998. Wyden convenes Moniz’s confirmation hearing Tuesday morning, but the history between the two men goes back to the 1990s when Moniz ...
