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DENVER -- It's been nearly seven years since former Secretary Gale Norton left the helm of the Interior Department, but she's still pursuing some of the same ideas -- like "cooperative conservation" -- that defined her tenure in the George W. Bush administration. Back home in Colorado, Norton now juggles a mix of roles that includes running her own consulting firm, leading a conservative environmental group and serving on several boards.
NEW YORK -- Attorneys representing Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc. and the state of Vermont had a busy week. Lawyers squared off in two venues over the future of the company's Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, Vt. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan heard arguments Monday on Vermont's attempts to shut down the plant, then the Entergy attorneys were back at it later in the week in Vermont's Supreme Court.
A messaging war is heating up as stakeholder comments roll into the Energy Department around proposals to expand natural gas exports, but one concern with the process is not making it into writing: How will a potential leadership change at DOE affect the results?
RAINIER, Ore. -- The grainy photograph hanging on the wall of the Ol' Pastime Tavern here recalls a time when lumber still defined the economy of the Northwest. It was taken in 1924. The tavern -- at that time still a hotel and saloon -- is perched in the foreground, flanked by smaller clapboard buildings on either side. Railroad tracks run down the main street amid piles of logs waiting for the next train. Nine decades later, those tracks still cut through the heart of town, passing the Ol' Pastime and a dozen other Rainier businesses as they skirt the southern bank of the Columbia River. Soon, they could put Rainier squarely in the path of some 30 million annual tons of coal, mined from Montana and Wyoming and bound for the Pacific and Asia.
How do industry leaders in the United States believe energy policy uncertainty is affecting investments and innovation? During today's OnPoint, Phyllis Cuttino, director of Pew's Clean Energy Program, discusses a new report based on roundtable discussions with more than 100 industry leaders pointing to the need for consistent, long-term energy policies. Cuttino also discusses the potential for a clean energy standard under the new Congress.
World Resources Institute President Andrew Steer talks rising global coal demand, record U.S. exports.
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