WarmBoot: In Fitting Eulogy to Cap-and-Raid, White House Quietly Removes AllReferences to Policy on Energy and Environment Website - Like It NeverHappened. E&E News (8/19,subs. req'd) reports, "The White House has recently revised its energy andenvironment website, stripping references to a cap-and-trade program forgreenhouse gases and a pledge to funnel $150 billion into clean energyresearch. Gone from the site is a section titled "Closing the CarbonLoophole and Cracking Down on Polluters."...

WarmBoot: In Fitting Eulogy to Cap-and-Raid, White House Quietly Removes AllReferences to Policy on Energy and Environment Website - Like It NeverHappened. E&E News (8/19,subs. req'd) reports, "The White House has recently revised its energy andenvironment website, stripping references to a cap-and-trade program forgreenhouse gases and a pledge to funnel $150 billion into clean energyresearch. Gone from the site is a section titled "Closing the CarbonLoophole and Cracking Down on Polluters."...

Ragin'Cajun: Landrieu Calls President's Decision to Institute Blanket Ban on GulfExploration - And Then Fight to Keep It There - "Uninformed," "Reckless." TheHill (8/17) reports, "Senate Small Business chair Mary Landrieu(D-La.) on Tuesday sharply criticized President Obama's reaction to the oilspill in the Gulf by halting nearly all drilling activity in the area. "Thedecision to stop virtually all new energy exploration in the Gulf of Mexico wasuninformed and in my view borders on...

Know Your Audience: Obama VeryCareful on Where Drops a Line for Cap-and-Raid During Trip Out West - Waits ‘Til$1 Million Fundraiser in Los Angeles to Let ‘Er Rip. LATimes (8/17) reports, "Onlookers lined Olympic Boulevard, snappingcellphone photos. One person held a small sign declaring, "We needjobs." "I was an Obama supporter, but ... was stopped by police fromcrossing Olympic to get home ... during my daily dog walk," Amy Christinesaid on the website. "I've lost all belief in his...

"Changingthe Color of the Getaway Car": WH Denies It's Trying to End Gulf Drilling -While At Same Time Instructing Its Interior Dept. to Withhold Permits for NewActivity. FOXNews (8/11) reports, "With the Obama administration returning to federalcourt to defend its six-month suspension of oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico,industry executives and analysts claimed the ban was more stringent thanoriginally believed, and exerting a greater impact on the lives and livelihoodsof Gulf Coast...

Fmr.Sen. Ted Stevens Remembered as Indefatigable Proponent and Exponent ofAffordable, Reliable, American Energy.TheHill (8/10) reports, "American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard onTuesday joined the list of people expressing sadness over the death of formerAlaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R) in a plane crash. "Ted Stevens loved Alaska andcared deeply about his constituents. He understood the importance of the oiland natural gas industry, and he worked tirelessly to help secure a...

Taps for TAPS: Enviro Efforts toDeny Access to Chukchi, Beaufort, ANWR Part of a Larger, Simpler Strategy toRender Useless the Alaskan Pipeline. LATimes (8/10) reports, "In its heyday in the 1980s, the pipeline carried asmuch as 2.1 million barrels of oil a day from America's largest oil field atPrudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez. Alaska was transformed into a petro statewith an oil savings account worth $33.3 billion. Today, however, the pipelineis carrying only about 660,000 barrels of oil...

From Small Mom and Pop Shop inHouston, to Fast Growing Washington Powerhouse, IER Quickly Becoming a Force inWashington Energy Policy Circles.Human Events (8/8) reports, " For an organization that opposescap-and-trade legislation and bans on offshore drilling, promoting free-marketenergy principles comes naturally. Praised by Rush Limbaugh as the "energyequivalent" of the Heritage Foundation, the Institute for Energy Research seeksto educate the public, legislators, academia and the media on...

TopEnviro Regulator in Okla. Sets the Record Straight on HF: "Never Seen AnythingApproaching this Unfounded and Growing National Hysteria." Bob Anthony, chairman of the OklahomaCorporation Commission, writes (8/6) in theOklahoman , "In more than 20 years as a corporation commissioner, I've neverseen anything that approaches this current unfounded and growing nationalhysteria. Simply put, hydraulic fracturing (HF) is an essential oil and gasproduction technique used for reservoir stimulation....

MacArthur,Rockefeller, Park & Tides Foundations None Too Happy with Their EnviroFoot-Soldiers in Wake of Cap-and-Raid Collapse - "We Got Our Ass Kicked,"Admits One Group. Politico(8/5) reports, "They didn't deliver a single Republican," an administrationofficial told POLITICO just hours after Reid pulled the plug on the climatebill. "They spent like $100 million, and they weren't able to get a singleRepublican convert on the bill."  How much money was spent is difficult to pin down. NRDC, the...