Insights from our Editorial Team
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Mar 21, 2013 |
TransCanada has all the permits it needs to begin building in July the southern half of its Keystone XL Pipeline. To jumpstart the northern half, Congress will take up in May its twin measures to bypass the presidential approval process. While the Senate effort won’t likely survive a filibuster, the two bills are expected to win solid majorities in both chambers. That broad-based endorsement will give President Obama the cover he needs to grant his approval.
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Mar 20, 2013 |
There’s an old joke with an equally archaic punchline that quips about the U.S. government never getting a thing done, how every project takes forever. At least in the case of a cybersecurity model, the U.S. government has definitely proven that joke completely and utterly wrong.
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Mar 19, 2013 |
Some Senate Democrats are asking President Obama to reconsider his administration’s approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions, saying that advanced coal technologies are a viable way to generate electricity. Easing up to allow more diversity in the country’s fuel portfolio is not only a prudent policy but it's also an affordable and healthy one, they add.
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Mar 18, 2013 |
The Obama administration is linking improvements in the electrical grid with the increasing occurrence of aberrant weather patterns, all associated with climate change. To that end, it has recently released its “progress report” detailing the steps that it has made and will continue to make to achieve its goals.
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Mar 18, 2013 |
President Obama’s plan to expedite the development of alternative fuels is causing both sides of the aisle to wince. He would take $200 million a year for the next 10 years from federal oil and gas royalties and use that money to fund research for next-generation vehicles.
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Mar 14, 2013 |
Uncle Sam is well positioned to usher in a new era of renewable energy development, mainly through its land management activities. The Government Accountability Office says that it oversees tens of millions of acres and that Congress has directed the Department of Interior to facilitate the construction of at least 10,000 megawatts of green energy by 2015.
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Methane Hydrate Deposits are Huge, but ControversialMar 13, 2013 |
Two years after an earthquaked rocked Japan, scientists there are hitting back. They successfully mined “methane hydrates” from the Sea of Japan -- an effort that could supply the country with unconventional natural gas for decades to come. But it’s an expensive proposition that must now survive beyond the testing phase.
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Mar 12, 2013 |
Congress has been grappling with cyber security for months, and the executive branch is circulating an order calling for greater coordination among agencies.
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SoCal Edison and Mitsubishi Getting ScrutinizedMar 11, 2013 |
That troubled nuclear plant in Southern California may have some more problems. A key member of the U.S. Congress is asking security regulators to look further into whether Edison International knew of defects before they became public but chose instead to sit on the information.
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Mar 07, 2013 |
California’s economic fate may brighten if oil and gas developers could get access to vast reserves there. That’s the opinion of economic developers, who are saying that the state would then diminish its 9.8 percent jobless rate and provide a source of wealth for decades -- if environmentalists would compromise.
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