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A National Strategy for Energy Security – Harnessing American Resources and Innovation, 2013

Full Title: A National Strategy for Energy Security – Harnessing American Resources and Innovation, 2013 Author(s): Energy Security Leadership Council Publisher(s): Securing America's Future Energy Publication Date: 12/2012 Full Text: ->DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT<- Description: The recommendations presented by...
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A Strong Case for Energy Storage?

Last month, the National Alliance for Advanced Technology Batteries released “Distributed Energy Storage: Serving National Interests,” a white paper which outlines the benefits of distributed energy storage (DES) and its...
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America’s Energy Resurgence: Sustaining Success, Confronting Challenges

Full Title: America's Energy Resurgence: Sustaining Success, Confronting Challenges Author(s): Bipartisan Policy Center's Strategic Energy Policy Initiative Publisher(s): Bipartisan Policy Center Publication Date: 2/2013 Full Text: ->DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT<- Description: The Strategic Energy Policy Initiative, a project of...
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American Energy Productivity: The Economic, Environmental and Security Benefits of Unlocking Energy Efficiency

Full Title: American Energy Productivity: The Economic, Environmental and Security Benefits of Unlocking Energy Efficiency Author(s): Rhodium Group Publisher(s): Alliance to Save Energy Publication Date: 2/2013 Full Text: ->DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT<- Description: Energy is essential to American...
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An Energy Blueprint for America: Policy Solutions for a New Energy Economy

Full Title: An Energy Blueprint for America: Policy Solutions for a New Energy Economy Author(s): Republican Governors Public Policy Committee Publisher(s): Republican Governors Public Policy Committee Publication Date: 8/2012 Full Text: –>DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT<– Description (excerpt): The 21st century has transformed every...
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Analysts Predict High Oil Prices in 2012

Oil prices are expected to average between $100 and $120/barrel in 2012. “Economists say they expect prices to remain high despite the relative weaknesses of the American and European economies...
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Assessing a Coal-to-Liquids Fuel Industry in the United States

Full Title: Assessing a Coal-to-Liquids Fuel Industry in the United States Author(s): James T. Bartis, Frank Camm, David S. Ortiz Publisher(s): Environment Publication Date: 11/2008 Language: English Length: 2 pages, PDF Full Text: –>ACCESS DOCUMENT<– Description: Government...
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Attaining Energy Security in Liquid Fuels Through Diverse U.S. Energy Alternatives

Full Title: Attaining Energy Security in Liquid Fuels Through Diverse U.S. Energy Alternatives Author(s): K. Kern, et al. Publisher(s):  USDOE NETL Publication Date: 8/2007 Identifier(s): DOE/NETL-2007/1278 Language: English Length: 74 pages, PDF Full Text: -->DOWNLOAD FILE<-- Description (excerpt): The...
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Big Changes to the Ethanol Landscape?

On December 31, 2011 Congress allowed a decades-old corn ethanol subsidy to sunset. It also sunsetted an import tariff on foreign cellulosic ethanol. The dissolution of these policies has prompted...
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Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future

Note: Synopsis drawn from the report. Synopsis intended solely for the purpose of generating discussion. Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future by the Obama Administration Demand for oil in countries like China and...
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Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future

Full Title: Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future Author(s): n/a Publisher(s): The White House Publication Date: 3/2011 Identifier(s): n/a Language: English Length:   44 pages, PDF Full Text: -->DOWNLOAD FILE<-- Description (excerpt): And beyond our efforts to reduce our dependence on oil, we must focus on...
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California LCFS Ruled Unconstitutional

A federal judge has ruled to block California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, arguing that it “unconstitutionally discriminates against out-of-state producers and tries to regulate activities that take place entirely outside...
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Can We Get It Right on Gas?

In an August 5th op-ed, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman urges America to “Get It Right On Gas.” While noting domestic natural gas development’s potential to address a host...
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Cause & Effect: U.S. Gasoline Prices

Full Title: Cause & Effect: U.S. Gasoline Prices Author(s): Andrew Holland & Nick Cunningham Publisher(s): American Security Project Publication Date: 2/2013 Full Text: ->DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT<- Description: This paper examines the causes of America’s soaring gasoline prices....
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CEOs & Military Leaders: End America’s Reliance on Oil

A new report from the Energy Security Leadership Council, a group including business leaders and retired military officials, warns that U.S. energy policy advocates are conflating “energy independence” with “energy...
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Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 Introduced

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) has introduced the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012, which would require electric utilities to derive increasing percentages of their supply...
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Climate Change and International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether

Full Title: Climate Change and International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether Author(s): Rob Huebert, Heather Exner-Pirot, Adam Lajeunesse, Jay Gulledge Publisher(s): Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Publication Date: 5/2012 Full Text: ->DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT<- Description: As...
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Coal’s No Way to Make the Job Market Hop

If Peabody Energy, SSA Marine and Goldman Sachs really want to stimulate jobs in Washington State, as they claim in their support of the Gateway Pacific project, they can find...
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CRS: Limited Short-Term Options on Gas Prices

A recent Congressional Research Service report titled “Rising Gasoline Prices 2012” states that Congress has “limited short term options … to address gasoline prices.” The report identifies six short-run policy options...
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Developing U.S. “Tar Sands”

Eastern Utah may see tar sand production begin later this year. A private company, the Alberta-based U.S. Oil Sands, has invested $6 million since 2005 to test the oil sands...
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Discussion Catalyst: Policy Principles

[Note: The statements below are intended solely to stimulate discussion among the Expert community, and do not represent the position of OurEnergyPolicy.org. Text in italics indicates clarification or expansion.] The U.S....
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Does Energy Independence = Energy Security?

Recent increases in U.S. natural gas and oil production – increases dramatic enough to drive speculation about and calls for U.S. exports of these resources – have brought the prospect...
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Education, Skills, and Our Energy Future

Even as we enter into “Sequestration,” with devastating reductions in workforce and education programs, there has been much talk of a “skills gap” in the U.S. This line of argument...
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Encouraging Grid Security with Distributed Generation

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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Energy Future: Think Efficiency

Full Title:  Energy Future: How America Can Look Within to Achieve Energy Security and Reduce Global Warming Author(s): G. Crabtree, D. Kammen, M. Lubell, B. Richter, F. Schlachter, et al. Publisher(s):  American...
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