At his Senate confirmation hearing today, President Obama’s pick to head the Department of Energy voiced his commitment to increase the use of natural gas, according to the AP: Ernest Moniz, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said “a stunning increase” in production of domestic natural gas in recent years was nothing [...]
The folks at FuelFix point out alternative energy may have more riding on tomorrow’s presidential results than any other sector: No other industry outside Detroit has been as closely aligned with President Obama’s policies. Obama touted green jobs as the key to America’s economic revival and showered $90 billion in stimulus funding on makers of [...]
What happened to climate change? Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates fielded at least one debate question about global warming from 1988 through 2008. And during that time span, both Republicans and Democrats acknowledged it as a serious issue. “The greenhouse effect is an important environmental issue,” then-Senator Dan Quayle said in 1988. “Global warming needs to [...]
Energy policy came up during both presidential debates, and Republican Mitt Romney has been using his stump speech to blast the Obama Administration’s support for renewable energy – and as he frames it, its opposition to the coal industry – for most of the year. So it’s clear a Romney White House would take a [...]
Both President Obama and Governor Romney tackled energy policy during the first half of last night’s presidential debate. Romney said the White House has spent $90 billion supporting alternative energy programs. Where did that figure come from? The Washington Post broke the numbers down earlier this year: The Energy Department put $90 billion worth of [...]
It may not be “Drill, Baby, Drill,” but the platform approved by Democrats in Charlotte this week promotes “cheap, abundant natural gas,” and calls for increased domestic energy production. As FuelFix points out, the party’s platform does make it clear that environmental protection needs to be part of drilling policy. But there’s no question Democrats [...]
The Hill reports on environmental advocates’ efforts to work climate change questions into this fall’s presidential debates: The League of Conservation Voters has launched a petition drive pressing the moderator of the first presidential debate, Jim Lehrer of PBS, to ask about the topic. The first debate is Oct. 3. “We urge you to ask President Obama [...]
Coal was front and center on the campaign trail yesterday, as Mitt Romney visited eastern Ohio to blast President Obama for stifling the coal industry through increased environmental regulation. Cheap, readily available natural gas has played a major role in the coal industry’s recent contractions, too, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans from focusing on regulations [...]
President Obama says Americans “should welcome” the shale drilling boom that has lead to increased domestic oil and gas production, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Democrat’s caveat – he supports drilling as long as it’s done “safely and in a way that’s environmentally sound.” The President made the drilling comments in Cincinnati yesterday, answering an [...]
Bashing President Barack Obama’s energy policies has become a stable of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s stump speech. The Republican regularly calls Obama an “anti-energy president,” and warns the Democrats policies are stifling oil and gas extraction. The New York Times traveled to western Pennsylvania, though, and didn’t find much evidence of federal guidelines slowing [...]
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