Here’s one interesting tidbit from today’s conference call on the deepwater drilling moratorium. Even though the administration has decided to lift the moratorium, the Interior Department has not yet hired new inspectors to look at rigs in the Gulf.
Michael Bromwich, head of the newly formed Bureau of Energy More…
The Obama administration announced today it is lifting the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that was imposed in the aftermath of the BP oil spill. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave few details about how soon drilling would resume in the Gulf.
Salazar said he believes More…
The White House is expected to lift a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters this morning.
The moratorium was imposed in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, which dumped 4.9 million barrels More…
Google is planning to fork over about $200 million in an initial investment to help build a massive set of power lines along the East Coast that would help move power generated from offshore wind to people’s homes.
The Internet giant is partnering with investment firm Good Energies to get More…
There’s been a lot of talk about the so-called clean energy race between the United States and China. But there’s a home-grown energy race brewing that has garnered far less attention.
In lane one you’ve got the federal government, which announced this week that it signed the first lease More…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced this week that he signed the lease for the country’s first offshore wind project. The Cape Wind project, in Massachusetts, has been mired in years of regulatory delay, but the lease signing was hailed by renewable energy advocates as a significant milestone in building More…
In a coup for offshore wind advocates, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed today the first ever lease for an offshore wind project in the United States.
The Cape Wind project, off the coast of Massachusetts, has been mired in regulatory delays for years, and today’s lease signing sends a signal More…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not pleased with the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s offshore drilling announcement today.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made no announcements today about the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, despite expectations by many observers. Salazar said Michael Bromwich, head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, will deliver him a report on the moratorium “soon.”
Michael Bromwich, who heads the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at the Interior Department, told a national commission on the Gulf oil spill today that he will release a report outlining new rules for offshore drilling “later this week.”
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