By Kennedy Maize Washington DC, December 6, 2011—The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has rolled out the latest, and fifth, of its Future Of series of studies of U.S. energy policy,…
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By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., December 2, 2011 -- Think the tension between electric reliability and environmental protection is just theoretical hand-waving? Debra Raggio, assistant general counsel at GenOn Energy,…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., November 17, 2011 -- Let’s stipulate: Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a doofus. I’ve elsewhere characterized him as “a stuffed shirt, in an empty suit,…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., October 18, 2011 -- Remember the flap about inconsistencies between the Energy Information Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey over shale gas estimates for the…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., October 17, 2011 – To describe Progress Energy’s Crystal River nuclear power plant on Florida’s west coast as a problem unit is a substantial understatement.…
By Carl Zichella Oct. 5, 2011 -- The Obama administration’s Rapid Response Team for Transmission (RRTT), today announced a plan to accelerate the permitting and construction of seven transmission lines…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., September 29, 2011 -- A story in the Wall Street Journal recently – about a Chinese wind firm pirating U.S.-owned software that controls wind turbines…
By Steven Aftergood Updated below When the Central Intelligence Agency established a Center on Climate Change and National Security in 2009, it drew fierce opposition from congressional Republicans who disputed the need…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., September 20, 2011 -- Having failed to implement the provisions of the 2005 Energy Policy Act aimed at facilitating interstate electric transmission, the Department of…
By Kennedy Maize Washington, D.C., September 16, 2011 -- Add another prominent name to the list of know-nothing, scientifically illiterate skeptics of the conventional wisdom about global warming. Ivar Giaever,…