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Counterpoint to Heritage on DOE Cuts
Last week, I reported briefly on a policy report released recently by the Heritage Foundation calling for what I believe to be drastic and dangerous cuts to the Department of Energy. Today, my colleagues and I produced an expanded and thorough...
The more things change...
...the more they stay the same. In the year since I started this blog, we've witnessed many substantial changes, events, and progressions on the energy/climate frontier. And yet, on the whole, it seems American policy hasn't evolved much at all....
Irrational Cuts Proposed To DOE
The Heritage Foundation just released a report providing opportunity and rationalization for $6 billion in cuts to the Department of Energy (H/T Teryn Norris). Here's the abstract of the report, titled "Department of Energy Spending Cuts: A Guide to...
Energetics: Year Two
I started this blog about one year ago (actually, Energetics had its inaugural post on March 22, 2010). Since then, I've posted 116 entries, averaging somewhere between 5-15 per month (with the exception of April 2010, which had 47 separate posts, a...
Polarizing Environmentalism
Observation via Robert Cruickshank at the California High-Speed Rail Blog:There are two kinds of environmentalism out there. The older kind is a 20th century environmentalism that believes the automobile society is perfectly fine – the problem is...
All (Climate) Politics Are Local
Roger Pielke Jr. has an interesting take on a point I've made many times at Energetics: that the justification for decarbonization is not advanced by more accurate or voluminous climate science, but by a campaign based on transitioning to a cleaner...
Energy News Cliff Notes
Amid a still-ongoing nuclear accident and buoyant oil prices, The Hill reports that President Obama will "outline a plan for America's energy future" tomorrow (Wednesday). The focus is expected to be on transportation and clean vehicles. Gov. Tim...
12 Expert Quotes on Fukushima
In the midst of the ongoing partial meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, energy experts across the spectrum are urging caution and patience in considering the implications for nuclear energy in the United States and internationally. In...
How Japan Should Impact the US Nuclear Debate
My thoughts and prayers have been and will continue to be with the people of Japan. Their suffering is both a tragedy and testimony to the fragility of even the most developed infrastructure. It is also a reminder of the sometimes alarming ubiquity...
Budget Roundup
While I will always think the President could bring more political gravitas to energy policy, at least there's some interesting energy dynamics in the budget proposal released yesterday. President Obama's 2012 budget proposal includes the...
Environmentalists sue to halt AB 32. Wait...what?
Someone please explain this to me:A California judge put rules on hold implementing the state's greenhouse gas laws including cap and trade rules adopted last year [under AB 32]....The board and those who brought the lawsuit, an alliance of...
The Nuclear Option in a Post-Partisan Approach on Energy
In the wake of cap-and-trade’s defeat, and as we begin a new session of Congress, common ground must be found on policy to renovate America’s energy infrastructure. Now may be the time to explore the possible benefits of renewing America’s once...
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