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POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:47am neoform

Washington Post -- At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new nat.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 4:33pm mrmdc

Reuters -- The Bush administration's new energy plan to slash gasoline demand by 20 percent faces serious economic obstacles and will do little to cut long-term U.S. reliance on foreign oil, analysts said on Wednesday... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 9:54am mrmdc

ABC News -- The House rolled back billions of dollars in oil industry subsidies Thursday in what supporters hailed as a new direction in energy policy toward more renewable fuels. Critics said the action would reduce domestic oil production and increase reliance on i.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 2, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The Senate debate on the climate bill probably will focus on its impact on energy prices and the economy, which in the short run could be considered significant. A study by the Energy Information Administration found that the bill would set in motion a.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

Washington Post -- In February, only a month after becoming speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi settled weeks of threats from Rep. John D. Dingell, her blustery Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, by putting in writing her assent to one of his big demands -- Pelosi's new.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 4:01pm neoform

FOX News -- The Senate late Thursday passed 65-27 an energy bill that imposes an average 35-mpg fuel efficiency standard for cars and sport-utility-vehicles by 2020. But the bill lacks two green-friendly pillars Democrats originally sought: tens of billions in tax.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 10:35am neoform

CNN -- The Senate passed an energy bill late Thursday that includes an increase in automobile fuel economy, new laws against energy price-gouging and a requirement for huge increases in the production of ethanol. In an eleventh-hour compromise fashioned after.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 9:17pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- HOUSE DEMOCRATS avoided a full-scale meltdown over their top domestic priority Monday when Speaker Nancy Pelosi forced Michigan Rep. John D. Dingell to shelve most of an energy bill that amounted to a slag heap of special-interest favors for the auto, coa.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:03pm neoform

Washington Post -- When the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives passed one of its first spending bills, funding the Energy Department for the rest of 2007, it proudly boasted that the legislation contained no money earmarked for lawmakers' pet projects a.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:14pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Britain's Prime Minister says Russia should agree to the international energy charter and its rules on supply because that's best for the Russian economy. Russia should play by the same rules in energy supplies as Europe and the US so as to gain trust.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Mon Nov 13, 2006 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- The Michigan Democrat who will head the House Energy and Commerce Committee next year previewed his energy priorities: cleaner cars powered by diesel and electricity, storing waste from U.S. nuclear reactors and probing offshore federal lease deals... Read More