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Senate bill would extend chemical security rules

Four members of the US Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee introduced bipartisan legislation to extend by 5 years existing federal regulations on chemical plant security.

New Jersey adopts new solar renewable energy standards

New Jersey enacted the Solar Energy Advancement and Fair Competition Act, which establishes a solar renewable energy portfolio standard

DOE: Obama announces steps to boost biofuels, clean coal

The president laid out three measures to boost biofuels production and reduce dependence on foreign oil

US Interior budget request contains cost increases

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the nation’s oil and gas industry will remain an important contributor to resource management as he presented the Department of the Interior’s proposed fiscal 2011 budget on Feb. 1.

FERC proposes credit reforms for organized wholesale electric markets

FERC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on credit reforms for the organized electric markets

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A Lesson for Energy Policy from the Housing and Credit Crisis

We are all too familiar with George Santayana’s admonition that “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat.” Of course Mark Twain thought that “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” In either case memory is short especially when it comes to making policy.

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