At Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), we understand that market forces can drive either a healthy environment – or harmful pollution. I recently wrote about how generating electricity often creates pollution, which comes with environmental and health costs that are usually not paid for by the polluters. That’s why EDF works to identify and correct market… Keep reading →
The American landscape is littered with failed prognostications about what new Presidential administrations would or would not ‒ and could or could not ‒ accomplish.
Energy trade publisher and data provider S&P Global Platts reports that this month the United States is a net exporter of natural gas, exporting an average of 7.4 billion cubic feet a day (bcf/d) – topping the 7 bcf/d the U.S. imported. Given the fact it has been nearly 60 years since the U.S. exported… Keep reading →
The election of Donald J. Trump as the next President of the United States appears to have dealt certain defeat for the Obama Climate Action Plan.
Two years ago, Jaroslav Neverovič, then Lithuania’s energy minister, told senators at an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing that his country and others in Europe were eager to see the United States ramp up exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), saying that U.S. LNG would bring needed diversity to Europe’s energy supply. With legislation… Keep reading →
While speculation is rampant regarding just far President Trump will go to roll back progress on climate change in the United States, Nicolas Sarkozy has fired what might be called a metaphorical shot across Trump’s bow.
How will the election’s outcome shape the direction of U.S. Middle East policy, and how do America’s friends in the region view the prospect of a new administration? Read or watch a conversation between leading Middle Eastern journalists and U.S. policy experts. On November 10, Jamal Khashoggi, Jumana Ghunaimat, David Horovitz, Norman Ornstein, and Dennis Ross… Keep reading →
With a dramatic change from a progressive democratic to a conservative republican administration, we anticipate that EPA is not only likely to pivot away from an enforcement heavy to a more business friendly agenda.
The 2016 election results have significant implications for companies across a wide range of industry sectors.
Energy as the driver of a number of key public policy issues, and energy as a bipartisan antidote to Washington’s dysfunctions – both are seen in the results of an election-night survey of actual U.S. voters, results that should guide the next administration and the new Congress. Key points: 80 percent of American voters support… Keep reading →
