Elections 2012

Undecided Voters Lean to Obama on Energy, Environment Standards, Poll Finds

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Comedian Seth Meyers hosts the NRDC’s 13th Annual ‘Forces For Nature’ Benefit at American Museum of Natural History on November 14, 2011 in New York City.

A majority of undecided voters in eight U.S. swing states favor policies that reduce carbon and mercury pollution and promote higher fuel efficiency standards and tax breaks for wind power, suggesting a clear advantage for President Obama among that section of the electorate ahead of the presidential election, according to a new opinion poll. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 3, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Fracking as a Solution to the Jobs Crisis?

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The 20th century is often referred to as the “American Century” as it was during that time when the U.S. emerged as an economic and political superpower. But a decade into the 21st century, with the country mired in a jobs crisis alongside its eternal struggle to find new sources of energy, some companies in that sector, with the help of business-friendly research groups, are arguing that the practice of fracking would give the U.S. economy a much-needed boost.

 /  Published October 2, 2012 at 2:05 PM

Energy Policy Debate: Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables

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Energy tax policy and regulation – what they are and what they should be – are the critical issues for the Presidential candidates, diverse energy experts agreed.

As with the candidates themselves, that was pretty much the end of the agreement in a Washington debate hosted by the American Petroleum Institute (API) Vote4Energy campaign. The experts split, politely, over what’s happening now and what that portends for the future, 40 years after the first oil embargo shocked Americans into paying attention to energy. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 28, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Nine Divisive Energy Issues for the Election

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It’s likely more land and offshore areas would be open for drilling if Mitt Romney wins the White House. He has repeatedly called for more state control (read: faster permitting) and for drilling to be allowed in waters off the East and West Coasts. Obama has a mixed record on drilling. He’s opened some new areas in the Gulf of Mexico and issued preliminary permits to drill in the Arctic. But his administration has issued fewer permits than that of George W. Bush, largely as a result of the moratorium following the BP spill.

 /  Published September 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM

North America’s Resource Endowment: Competitive Advantages

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The centrality of the shale revolution to a resurgence in the US economy has been widely examined but rarely given such thorough analytical backing as it is in this video from Rice University’s Professor Peter Hartley.

While Hartley’s comments on North America’s conventional and unconventional natural resource endowment and upside production potential preceded the high-profile release of Boston Consulting Group’s report on the potential for an immense resurgence in the US manufacturing and export sector this week, he notes the degree to which the region enjoys economic and geopolitical competitive advantages in an increasingly globalized international landscape. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM

Experts Pose Critical Energy Questions for the US Presidential Debates

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Memo to: Jim Lehrer, PBS; Candy Crowley, CNN; Bob Schieffer, CBS

In re: Energy questions you should be asking when you moderate the upcoming October Presidential debates Keep reading →

 /  Published September 20, 2012 at 1:30 PM

State-level Policies Impact Renewable Energy Most

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With just six weeks remaining in the current election cycle, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s opposition to the extension of wind energy tax credits and his ho-hum approach to renewable energy in his official energy policy are of understandable concern to advocates of blossoming renewable energy sources, including solar and wind.

Despite the solar industry’s significant interest in the outcome in the Presidential and Congressional elections, it is races deciding control of state legislatures that are arguably more important. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 19, 2012 at 11:30 AM

What Obama and Romney Don’t Say About Energy

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Fossil fuels and renewable energy have become touchy topics in this election, with challenger Mitt Romney painting President Barack Obama as too hard on the first and too fanciful about the second – and Obama saying Romney is out of touch with energy’s future.

But two other significant resources, nuclear power and energy efficiency, are evoking scant debate. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 13, 2012 at 11:30 AM

The Flawed US Energy Policy Discussion

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Are the energy industry and the business of politics incompatible?

It could be the simplest explanation for why the US does not have a comprehensive, efficient or constructive energy policy set. On the most basic level, two-year and four-year election cycles are problematic for an industry that needs to make decisions and investments over twenty- to thirty-year time horizons. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM

All of Obama’s campaign promises on energy http://ow.ly/dwTDh

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All of Obama’s campaign promises on energy http://ow.ly/dwTDh PolitiFact

 /  Published September 7, 2012 at 10:35 AM
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