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- Betting Against Climate Change Legislation and the Most Important Week Ever
- While global investors -- and their $14 trillion -- pen their support for climate change legislation, there are still plenty of folks out there betting against the bill. American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard is one of those ready to toss his chips into the pot. Valero...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- OPEC: Risk Remains, Oil Production Unchanged and a Word About Climate Change
- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will keep its oil production levels unchanged -- as expected --Â in large part to avoid destabilizing a fragile economic recovery. OPEC ministers from its 11 member countries gathered Sept. 9 and 10 for its 154th ordinary meeting in Vienna, Austria. OPEC...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Nukes, Coal and the National Security Argument
- When the standard let's-save-the-environment argument failed to motivate Congress members to pick up the climate change legislation flag, advocates turned to the economy and job creation. Now a bipartisan group of former Congressmen and U.S. foreign policy leaders -- with resumes tough to ignore -- is pushing...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Week in Oil & Gas: Discovery Hot Spots, Nat Gas' $80M Advocacy Campaign and One Big LNG Project
- It wouldn't be a worthwhile week in the oil and gas industry without a few discoveries. And my, there were some goodies. The hot spots this week were in the ultra deep waters offshore Brazil, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and Uganda. And Spanish energy company Repsol YPF found...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Google (with Al Gore's Help) Takes Users On Guided Climate Change Tour
- Google launched today a series of guided tours developed to give users a bird's eye view of the potential impact climate change could have on the world. The search engine giant -- embracing the seeing is believing mantra -- uses its virtual globetrotting program Google Earth and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Rhetoric Roundup: Obama Calls For All Nations to Fight Climate Change, China's Hu Defines Responsibility
- President Obama's speech at the United Nations summit on climate change spent considerable time on the concept of responsibility. Namely, that all countries -- rich and poor, developed and emerging -- are responsible and must share the burden of climate change. It's an interesting shift by a president,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Week in Oil & Gas: G20 Axes Subsidies, Obama-Hu Climate Rhetoric, and Chevron Sues
- The week ended with a muffled bang as the Group of 20 nations agreed to phase out government subsidies for fossil fuels. Ending fossil fuel subsidies would have an impact -- positive or negative, depending on whose talking.  But the agreement is viewed largely symbolic since G20 leaders did...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Energy Roundup: Sahara Solar Plan, U.S-China Climate Talks, Nabucco Gas Pipe Accord Signed, and More
- Backers of Sahara solar power plant project sign initiative -- A dozen major companies including Siemens, German insurer Munich Re and utilities RWE and Eon signed a renewable energy initiative Monday aimed at developing electricity via solar power plants and wind farms in the Sahara desert. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Plight of the U.S. Refiner: Climate Bill, Stagnant Demand and Weak Margins
- The latest doomsday report about proposed climate change legislation centers on the plight of U.S. refiners, essentially predicting the ultimate downfall of the industry as costs become too high and production shifts overseas. U.S. refiners and their bottom lines have already been punished by a recession that has...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Sarah Palin Blasts Cap-and-Trade Plan
- Gov. Sarah Palin's op-ed piece in the Washington Post blasting President Obama's energy plan erases any doubt -- in my mind, at least -- that she is positioning herself for the 2012 presidential campaign. Palin's recent decision to resign as Alaska's governor already had politicos and regular-folks alike speculating...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Steven Chu Promotes Energy Policy Via Facebook, YouTube, Daily Show Appearance
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu is flexing his social networking muscles by launching a Facebook account that besides offering some personal tidbits, promises to gives "fans" an inside look at the Obama administration's energy policy. The Facebook launch is the latest in a flurry of Chu cheerleading that is clearly...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Exelon Ditches U.S. Chamber Over Climate Policy, Who Will Leave the "Voice of Business" Next?
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's stance on climate-change legislation continues to alienate its member base. This time it's Exelon, the third utility to desert the U.S. Chamber in a week. It's not quite a exodus. But momentum is building against the powerful lobbying group -- described as...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- CIA Tackles Climate Change and Its Risk to National Security
- The Central Intelligence Agency -- the country's first line of defense -- will add rising sea levels, desertification and population shifts caused by climate change as one more potential threat to national security. The CIA announced recently it will open the Center on Climate Change and National...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Week in Oil & Gas: Climate Bill Hurdles and Refining Blues
- A key Senate panel -- along with environmentalists, oil and gas industry folk and government energy officials -- squared off last week in a round of hearings aimed at hashing out the details of a climate bill. The initial hearings, as the WSJ notes, took on a familiar political...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- IEA Shoutout: Nukes, Renewables, Energy Efficiency Key to Climate Change Battle
- The world -- in the eyes of the International Energy Agency -- cannot resume its trip down the same fossil fuel path. Instead, the Paris-based agency, which released Tuesday its 2009 World Energy Outlook, called for a profound change within the energy sector and a global agreement to limit...
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Copenhagen Day 4: Obama's Speech, and Senators Send Tripartisan Message
- We're already well into (ahem, past) day five of the international climate talks in Copenhagen, so before the weekend arrives -- a look at what happened Thursday. Over here on this side of the pond, three U.S. senators announced a new climate compromise bill, that as BNET...
- Blog posts 2009-12-11
- Valero CEO: Climate Bill Threatens U.S. National Security
- Valero CEO Bill Klesse lays out the case against climate change legislation, arguing that it will threaten U.S. national security by killing off the domestic refining industry and giving foreign companies a competitive advantage. by Kirsten Korosec
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Abandoning Ship: Nike Quits Chamber Board Over Climate Change Stance
- Nike -- a longtime proponent of reducing greenhouse gas emissions -- has resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce board to protest the business group's opposition of climate-change legislation. Nike fundamentally disagrees with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the issue of climate change and their recent...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Chevron Taps Watson as CEO Successor
- John Watson -- a nearly three-decade veteran of Chevron -- has been elected by the oil giant's board as its next chairman and CEO. Watson will succeed David O'Reilly, who held the top executive spot for a decade and plans to retire at the end of the year. O'Reilly...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Exxon CEO Tillerson's Argument For a Carbon Tax
- Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson renewed his push for a straight tax on greenhouse gas emissions in a speech last night, touting the benefits of a plan that would give companies a predictable cost and keep the government from picking energy winners and losers. The head of the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
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