British Green Deal hopes to be model of market-driven efficiency
British energy officials shared a message of a market-friendly energy efficiency promotion and sniffed out possible trade and investment opportunities during a visit to Houston on Monday. More »
What Is the Law’s Role in Offshore Drilling Safety?
As the OTC gets underway to record numbers here in Houston, one oft repeated phrase from industry and government is that safety should come first. James Watson, head of BSEE, also announced that the government plans to speed up its rulemaking on safety requirements by skipping the “notice of proposed rulemaking” stage and going straight [...] More »
U.S., Brazil zero in on drilling, biofuels in bilateral meeting
President Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pledged Monday to further boost cooperation between their nations on energy matters ranging from oil and gas development to renewable power. More »
Senate turns back Keystone XL, drilling expansion again
The Senate for the second time in as many weeks turned back a Republican-led effort to add provisions approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline to an unrelated transportation bill. More »
Obama touts alternative fuels, efficiency to cut oil use
President Obama touted policies his administration is pursuing to cut vehicle oil use, ranging from fuel-efficiency standards to natural-gas-powered trucks, amid ongoing political debate over gasoline prices. More »
GM to suspend production of Chevrolet Volt
The Volt was rolled out with great fanfare in late 2010 but has since hit bumps in the road. More »
ERCOT estimates tight but manageable summer power supply
Texas’ grid operator predicts tight electricity supplies during the coming summer’s hottest days, but believes the state can avoid rotating power outages. More »
Clean-power bill would boost natural gas, renewables
Large retail power companies would have to roughly double how much low-carbon power, such as solar, they sell by 2035 under legislation unveiled today by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., Senate energy committee chairman. More »
Gas prices again fueling energy policy debate
Gasoline prices have once again risen to the forefront of energy policy debate, resulting in a political back-and-forth among lawmakers, interest groups and the Obama administration. More »
Feds propose first central Gulf lease sale since Deepwater Horizon
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposed today an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, the second there since the 2010 oil spill and the first since then in the Central Gulf region where the disaster occurred. More »
Obama tells Congress he wants “all of the above” energy strategy
President Obama made the case Tuesday night for producing more of the United States’ energy supplies domestically in pursuing an “all-of-the-above” approach to further bolster the economy and national security. More »
Report: Energy imports’ share of demand down almost half by 2035
Increases in domestic oil-and-gas production, efficiency and use of renewables will cut imports’ share of U.S. energy demand nearly in half by 2035, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said. More »
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