energy independence

Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who’s leading a “virtual march” on Washington this week to push his energy plan, participated in a Center for American Progress Action Fund panel this morning on the need for a national smart electricity grid. But as his co-panelists, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and CAP President John Podesta discussed [...]

Before signing new executive orders on his green agenda this morning, President Obama laid out three priorities in the areas of energy independence, fuel efficiency and emissions.
“This moment of peril must be turned into one of progress,” he pledged. Noting today’s announcements of huge job cuts at Caterpillar, Sprint and Home Depot, he emphasized the [...]

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) offers a new angle today on the Detroit bailout, saying that he’ll support the plan only if the automakers stop trying to kill states’ efforts to tighten emission standards.
California has famously applied for an Environmental Protection Agency waiver forcing emission reductions of 30 percent by 2016. But the automakers claim the [...]