Pennsylvania holds its primary April 24th, and candidates for all offices – from President to Senate to Attorney General to state House – are talking about energy on the campaign trail.
What are they saying about natural gas drilling, coal and gasoline prices? Find out here.
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 [...]
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Smith’s new television ad puts energy policy front and center. The commercial blasts Democrat Bob Casey and the Obama Administration for regulations that, in the ad’s words, have “forced [coal mines] to close.” What the ad doesn’t mention: while new federal regulations certainly have made things harder for the coal [...]
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 [...]
The Post-Gazette takes a look at which energy companies are contributing to Pennsylvania’s statewide races: Range Resources of Fort Worth, Texas, donated $3,000 to a Washington County commissioner running for state treasurer. Chesapeake Energy is headquartered in Oklahoma City but gave $1,000 to an auditor general candidate who has pledged, if elected, to investigate how Pennsylvania monitors [...]
A bit more from FuelFix on Governor Romney’s claim that half of the green energy companies benefiting from federal grants, loan guarantees or other perks have gone out of business: Since Solyndra’s bankruptcy, most Republican criticism of the Obama’s green-jobs spending has focused on the loan programs run by the Department of Energy, programs that awarded [...]
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 [...]
StateImpact seeks to inform and engage local communities with broadcast and online news focused on how state government decisions affect your lives.
Learn More »
