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In Pennsylvania, Shale Boom Helps Fund Switch to Natural Gas Vehicles

May 21, 2013
Pennsylvania’s Act 13 of 2012 created a three-year Natural Gas Energy Development Program that will allocate $20 million in grant funds to purchase or convert vehicles to natural gas.  The...
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Is FracFocus Working As A Regulatory Compliance Tool?

May 1, 2013
According to a recently released Harvard Law School report, the website FracFocus.org “fails as a regulatory compliance tool” for energy companies developing oil and gas wells using hydraulic fracturing. FracFocus,...
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Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013

April 29, 2013
Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) recently reintroduced the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act (ESICA), S. 761. This bipartisan legislation will spur the use of energy...
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Is Illinois Set to Take the Lead on Fracking Regulation?

February 22, 2013
A bill, recently introduced by Illinois State Representatives John Bradley and David Reis, to regulate hydraulic fracturing in the state is attracting support from both industry and environmental groups. The...
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Administration Releases New Fuel Economy Rules

September 3, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Transport Safety Administration (NHTSA) have released new rules for a corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard that will increase fuel economy to...
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Encouraging Grid Security with Distributed Generation

August 9, 2012
Along with Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), I recently introduced H.Res.762, with which we mean to express “the sense of the House...
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Is Carbon Pricing Back on the Table?

August 6, 2012
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) has introduced legislation that would put a price on CO2 emissions. Known as the Managed Carbon Price (MCP) Act, the bill is structured more as a...
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Impacts of the Section 1603 Program

August 2, 2012
Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was designed to attract private investors to renewables projects by offering investors a cash reimbursement equal to and in lieu of the...
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Senate GOP Offers Up Familiar Energy Bill

July 30, 2012
Senate Republicans recently unveiled the “Domestic Energy and Jobs Act,” an energy bill intended “To approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, to provide for the development of a plan to increase...
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House Pushing Offshore Drilling

July 24, 2012
House leadership is planning a vote this week on a bill to expand leasing for offshore drilling, the “Congressional Replacement of President Obama's Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting Offshore Drilling Plan” (H.R....
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