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Year: 2012

Natural Gas Is the Future. Let’s Get Ready for It

Natural Gas Is the Future. Let’s Get Ready for It By Andrew Browning The public has been confronted with a barrage of information about shale gas: its impacts on drinking water, its benefits – and threats – to local communities, and its effects on the environment. Much of this conversation is not driven by science and […]

CEA Testifies In Support Of New Pipeline Route

CEA Testifies In Support Of New Pipeline Route: On Tuesday, CEA Executive Vice President Michael Whatley testified at a public hearing held by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on the agency’s draft evaluation report for the Keystone XL pipeline. Concurring with the report’s findings, Whatley said in part that the draft “clearly demonstrates […]

Southeast Energy Alliance Announces the 2012 Southeast Ag-Energy Summit

Energy, Agribusiness, Farming and Forestry stakeholders and elected officials from six states to converge on the Atlanta Commerce Club to discuss critical post-election energy issues ATLANTA, GA – Southeast Energy Alliance (SEA), the southeastern regional chapter of the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), today announced the 2012 Southeast Ag-Energy Summit, scheduled for Monday, December 17, 2012 […]

CEA: U.S. Should Adopt Recommendations to Strengthen America’s Energy Security

HOUSTON, TX: Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) praises the recommendations released today by the Energy Security Leadership Council (ESLC), which are designed to safeguard the physical and economic security of the United States by reforming current energy policy. The report calls for the United States to reduce our exposure to the dangers of the global oil […]

CEA: U.S. Should Adopt Recommendations to Establish National Energy Security Council

HOUSTON, TX: Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) applauds recommendations released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center, which called on the Obama Administration to create a National Energy Security Council and a companion Quadrennial Energy Review to provide a forward-looking national energy strategy that has eluded every U.S. President since Richard Nixon. The recommendation was prepared under […]

Can Energy Policy Keep the U.S. Off the Fiscal Cliff?

CEA Connects Both Sides of the Aisle, Hosts Conf. Call on Tuesday HOUSTON: Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) will examine whether energy policy can keep the American economy from falling off the fiscal cliff during a conference call on Tuesday, November 13 at 9:15 A.M. ET. Former Clinton and Bush administration officials John Northington and Michael […]

Nebraskan Input Will Strengthen Case for Pipeline

Houston, TX – Consumer Energy Alliance Executive VP Michael Whatley notes the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality release of its pipeline evaluation plan will help correct critics and ensures consumers are on track to having a dependable energy supply from a trusted neighbor. “Nebraska is doing it right.  Public input allows false claims to be […]

New Report Reconfirms Damaging Impact of a LCFS

WASHINGTON — A study released today by Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) reconfirms the damaging impacts a national low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) would have on the American consumer and our economy.  With economic analysis conducted by National Economic Research Associates, Inc (NERA), today’s report “Critique of the UC Davis National Low Carbon Fuel Standard Study” […]

Why Foreign Policy Impacts Energy Voters

CEA’s David Holt Previews Third Presidential Debate Houston, TX – Consumer Energy Alliance President David Holt points out the connection between U.S. Energy Policy and U.S. Foreign Policy in advance of tonight’s third presidential debate in Boca Raton, FL: “Creating North American energy self-sufficiency is the most complicated challenge facing the next President.  Complicated because […]