On Monday the Senate voted 94-2 to proceed with a Democrat-sponsored bill that proposes to repeal billions of dollars of tax breaks for oil and gas companies and use part of that money to pay for the extension of certain … Read More

Republicans seem to have a lot of confidence these days when it comes to energy. Much of it apparently still comes from the failure of a certain DOE-backed solar company, as John McCain again showed us last week when he … Read More

Last week’s ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit brought together big personalities as well as big minds. And if you get enough of that combination into the same room, someone is bound to say something that ends up in the headlines. Former … Read More

Is Volt-hate not fascinating? This country is proud of its automaking history. It is also proud of its supposed commitment to innovation. Yet here is one by General Motors, and it’s the object of bitter contempt, spurred by the likes … Read More

I do my best to keep track of—and post on this bulletin—headlines that resonate with the energy zeitgeist (if there is such a thing). Readers then tell me with their clicks which of those headlines most impress them (see our … Read More

I feel guilty when I let so much time elapse between blog posts, but let me explain. I have a real job. Being an obsessive energy news nerd self-publisher curator is not very lucrative, you see. I work for a … Read More

Over at Ward’s Auto, Drew Winter is fired up. Innovation, he says, is “being murdered” in America. And the politicization of new technologies—exemplified by irrational hate of the Chevy Volt—is a big reason why this is the case. [A]ll new … Read More

In case you can’t see it, that’s a treacherous tightrope Barack Obama is walking on these days whenever he steps into the circus-like national energy and environmental policy debate. And his margin for political error on environmental issues will shrink … Read More

Possibly the biggest story of 2011 began with a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the east coast of Japan, back in March. The quake induced the tsunami that subsequently set the scene for the disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant—arguably the biggest story in all of technology, let alone energy. Now The New York Times informs us that this natural disaster has also assumed a role in another big energy story… Read More