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Center for American Progress Ranks State Energy Efficiency Policies

By | 08.31.10 | 3:28 pm

A new report released today by the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank with close ties to the Obama administration, ranks the states with the best policies “to accelerate demand for energy efficiency services, businesses, and ultimately jobs.”

The top 10, starting with the best, are: Connecticut, More…

Interior Department to Oversee Well After BP Permanently Caps it

By | 08.11.10 | 3:44 pm

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports:

Once BP’s runaway Macondo well is killed, it will no longer be considered part of oil spill reponse and the Department of Interior will take over control of the well, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said in a briefing Wednesday afternoon.

One question: How much More…

Bingaman’s Utility-Only Bill

By | 07.13.10 | 11:09 am

TWI has obtained a copy of a “discussion draft” authored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), with input from Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine) office, that was circulated among industry stakeholders in recent months.

The bill, which was sent to TWI by a well-connected industry lobbyist, would require that the power sector More…

Van Jones to CAP? Apparently Not

By | 09.09.09 | 2:19 pm

The New York Daily News reports that Van Jones has taken a job at the Center for American Progress, noting that the former Obama administration green jobs guru landed quickly on his feet following his resignation over the Labor Day weekend.

But TWI’s sources over at CAP say it’s More…

Counterinsurgents Like the CAP Report

By | 12.11.08 | 12:37 pm

Remember how I said in my piece this morning that the Center for American Progress’s new defense report “largely embraces the tenets about the future of warfare put forth by a rising generation of counterinsurgency theorist-practitioners emerging from the Iraq and More…