Late Wednesday night, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its so-called “study” on grid reliability. Secretary Perry commissioned the report in this April memo, asking the DOE to investigate whether our electric grid’s reliability is threatened by the “erosion of critical baseload resources,” meaning coal and nuclear power plants. Perry took the unusual step of… Keep reading →
The Department of Energy’s much-anticipated study on Electricity Markets and Reliability focuses on protecting the resilience of the grid and sets the stage for debate at FERC.
Here’s the case for expanded opportunity within a new offshore oil and natural gas leasing program that federal officials are assembling: Safely developing American oil and natural gas on the outer continental shelf (OCS) is vital to the United States’ long-term energy and national security. We need new access to offshore areas, such as the… Keep reading →
New EO aims to hold federal agencies to a two-year timeline for completing environmental review and issuing approvals for infrastructure projects.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice just pitched a coal boondoggle to President Donald Trump. And boy oh boy, it’s a doozy. Justice, who made news recently for announcing at a Trump rally that he was switching from the Democratic to the Republican party, is a billionaire climate denier who owns a host of companies, including… Keep reading →
During a conference call with reporters on new study detailing the positive impacts of energy infrastructure construction on the U.S. economy and America’s middle class, both Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), and Jack Gerard, API president and CEO, acknowledged the role of safety in advancing pipelines and other needed energy projects.… Keep reading →
The U.S. nuclear energy enterprise is a key national security enabler, according to a report released this week by a new non-profit.
We’ve posted quite a bit recently about the need for streamlining the federal permitting process for energy infrastructure (see here and here). An API study earlier this year estimated investments in needed natural gas and oil infrastructure could total more than a trillion dollars and potentially generate more than 1 million jobs through 2035. That’s a lot of economic… Keep reading →
As has been widely discussed over the past decade, the U.S. transportation and energy infrastructures—from highways and bridges to airports, rail and ports to power generation and distribution—have seen a significant degradation and have significant cyber exposure.
August 15, 2017 was a busy day for the Trump Administration. While interacting with the press and other politicians regarding the protests and counter-protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, the White House was also issuing an Executive Order with potentially far-reaching effects on flood management.
