The House passed a bill yesterday approving an offshore energy development agreement on the maritime border between the US and Mexico. But some Democrats opposed the bill, which waives the Dodd-Frank requirement that requires companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments. Nothing strange in that at all. [The Hill]

Sources say that President Obama will nominate Ron Binz, “a strong proponent of renewable energy and former Colorado utility regulator”, to succeed Jon Wellinghoff as head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. [Washington Post]

And totally unrelated to politics, but possibly relevant to a lot of our readers, is an op-ed about the myth of free energy and conspiracy theories about the primacy of oil in our energy system. “Most people fail to understand the dynamics of the current systems. They simply throw a switch and get power, or drive into a filling station and pump fuel into their cars, with no thought about how the energy was delivered.” Amen. [Huffington Post]