Department of Energy
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The Climate Post: Obama’s new budget would make Big Oil pay for clean energy
The president gives a preview of his budget in his weekly address.Republicans are vowing to fight President Obama’s newly released budget for the 2012 fiscal year. Among other things, the new budget includes a few significant changes to spending on climate and energy research. In the energy sector, it calls for slashing tax breaks and loopholes for fossil […]
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House Republican budget cuts would strangle innovation
This article was cross-posted from the Center for American Progress. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union on Jan. 25, 2011, waved the green flag for innovation and competition in the cleantech sector. He proposed a number of programs to speed the development and manufacturing of domestic energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors to help […]
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House Republicans seek cuts to Energy Star, weatherization, advanced energy research, puppies
The Republicans' Spending Reduction Act would chop funding for Energy Star, transit, organic programs, energy research, and family planning.
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Why 'Made in America' is the gift that keeps on giving
We offer here our "holiday wish list" for American workers to preserve an innovation-led economy that makes stuff and creates good jobs here at home.
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Energy Department: U.S. could store CO2 underground for the next 5,700 years
While CCS remains highly controversial and untried, partnerships are investigating areas in the U.S. and Canada for injecting billions of metric tons of greenhouse gases into underground geologic formations.
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Why it’s OK for big polluters to get stimulus research funds
If we're going to ask the private sector to invest in energy solutions, that means doing business -- and occasionally awarding research money -- to companies like BP, Duke, and DuPont.
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Home Energy Score could be a much-needed MPG for houses
The score gives a simple 1-10 rating of a home's energy performance and then -- this is the exciting part! -- a higher score owners might achieve if they take recommended steps like adding insulation, installing a programmable thermostat, shutting down the steel refinery in their basement, etc. So a home might achieve a 6 and have an expected upgraded score of 8.
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Feds target energy efficiency scofflaws
The Department of Energy is enforcing its own energy efficiency and water standards for products from light bulbs to shower heads, siting 27 companies
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Obama administration sued over secrecy surrounding nuclear power subsidies
After President Obama announced back in February that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in taxpayer-financed loan guarantees to the Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors at its Plant Vogtle in Georgia, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy sought details about the deal under the Freedom of Information Act. The watchdog group submitted […]