We don’t usually include press releases in the pipeline, but this is too delicious.  I’m betting Senator Inhofe puts him on the canvas in the fifth, and the ref calls it somewhere around the eighth EPW (12/12/11) reports: Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today accepted Ralph Nader's invitation to debate Congressman Markey on global warming. .."I would welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of global warming with...
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For Immediate Release WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance announced today the latest recipients of the 2011 inaugural "Lump of Coal" Awards, given Dec. 8-23 to policy makers, politicians and other professionals who are most responsible for reduced economic growth and rising energy prices.  Today's award is shared by 1997 Nobel prize winner and current energy secretary, Steven Chu, and former senator and current interior secretary, Ken Salazar. "Every time the American people...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Sorting through the list of potential recipients for the inaugural "Lump of Coal" Award was a laborious process for the judges at the American Energy Alliance this year.  But undeterred in the quest to find America's naughtiest politicians, policy makers, and other professionals who just don't understand how energy markets work, the judges emerged from their frack-friendly conference room convinced that the second award this year should be shared between West Virginia...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Leading off the 2011 list of naughty policymakers, politicians, and other professionals who have demonstrated exemplary failures to understand or promote policies that generate affordable American energy is this year's first recipient, the 43rd president of the United States, the Honorable George Walker Bush of Texas. "When it comes to offering opportunities for American energy exploration, President Bush failed to meet the standard set by Bill Clinton, of all people....
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, the United States House of Representatives passed the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which returns to Congress the responsibility for approving major regulations affecting the American economy.  This bipartisan measure would require a majority of both chambers of Congress to approve any regulation costing more than $100 million. AEA President Tom Pyle released the following statement upon House passage of...
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For Immediate Release AEA to award "Lump of Coal" to naughty policymakers, politicians, and others who have hindered American energy development WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance has been keeping a list of the naughty policymakers, politicians, and other professionals who -- by their individual and occasionally collective efforts -- have slowed American energy development through bad policy and foolish ideas.  Beginning Thursday, December 8, 2011, AEA will award the 2011...
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Let the great debate begin — IER releases energy inventory report that attacks the narrative energy scarcity Powerline Blog (12/6/11) reports: For a long time, the Left has gotten away with underselling America’s energy resources. The old chestnut that the U.S. uses 25% of the world’s oil but only has 2% to 3% of the world’s oil reserves has been repeated endlessly by Barack Obama and many others. This claim fooled millions of people who didn’t understand that in the U.S.,...
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Once again, America leads in the next energy revolution, but will our government get out of the way? Wall Street Journal (12/5/11) reports: Big Oil is redrawing the energy map…For decades, its main stomping grounds were in the developing world—exotic locales like the Persian Gulf and the desert sands of North Africa, the Niger Delta and the Caspian Sea. But in recent years, that geographical focus has undergone a radical change. Western energy giants are increasingly hunting for supplies...
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She might be able to make due with off shore wind energy, but I don’t live in a hovel and I enjoy my big screen TV Richmond Times (11/30/11) reports: About 50 environmental activists called on the State Corporation Commission Wednesday to require Dominion Virginia Power to invest more in renewable energy…"There's enough offshore wind energy in Virginia to provide all of our energy needs," Sierra Club organizer Patrick Stelmach said…Enough sunlight falls on downtown Richmond that "we'd...
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President Obama’s new electric car will cost $96,000 this holiday season (batteries not included) Greenwire (11/30/11) reports: A123 Systems has cut 35 percent of the workers at two Michigan plants that make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles following a reduction in orders from prime customer Fisker Automotive…The company, which received a $249 million grant from the Department of Energy to produce batteries in Michigan, has been touted by the Obama administration as evidence...
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