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A Squirrel Stands On A Halloween Jack-O'-Lantern

Here at Energy.gov, we take energy — and Halloween — pretty seriously. So when the White House announced that, once again, this October would be National Energy Action Month, we knew it was time to celebrate. During National Energy Action Month, President Obama calls on Americans to work together “to achieve greater energy security, a… Keep reading →


From the start Heather Zichal, chief energy adviser to President Barack Obama, struck Elgie Holstein as an unusual Washington player.

He got to know her when Zichal was a Congressional aide for Senator John Kerry, a position she held from 2002 to 2008. One day, she sought out Holstein, a veteran policy adviser who had served in the Clinton administration, because she needed information on refinery economics. Keep reading →

API President & CEO, Jack Gerard

Most in the energy business know the American Petroleum Institute as a Washington DC-based oil and natural gas industry lobby, but some may be surprised to learn the organization’s first initiatives were the creation of an authoritative statistics program and an industry standardization drive. Keep reading →