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CEA’s Top 5 Favorite Energy Stories This Week – June 19

Summer is officially here! We will be putting together summer energy tips through the next few months on our blog, so be sure to bookmark...

Tug boat operator tells Congress to give a toot about offshore

Testifying before a U.S. House committee reviewing the impact of offshore energy exploration, an executive from Gulf of Mexico based Crosby Tuggs outlined the...

New York State Report Finds Fracking Safe

A report in the N.Y. Times uses the words "safe" and "hydrofracking" in the same sentence.  The analysis conducted by the State of New...
Candle During Power Outage

Why Does Everyone Keep Talking About Reliability?

I recently joined Consumer Energy Alliance after several years of working for a business trade group. When I started, I felt like I knew...
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Why Do Gas Prices Increase in Spring and Summer?

Increases in the price of gasoline during the spring and summer months are typical. As we enter this time of year, we explain the...

Top 5 Energy News Stories This Week

Energy News and Stories This Week: Nov. 26th – Dec. 2nd Energy is the bedrock of modern existence. It influences world economies and family...

Here Comes the Hybrid School Bus

It’s back to school season, but how will all those kids actually get back to school? Public education budgets around the country are tight...

Green energy jobs: Gone abroad with the wind

Oil isn’t the only domestic industry at risk of losing out to overseas competitors: It seems that a lot of federal government money allocated...

The power of small steps

Butte Community College in northern California is hardly the biggest, or the best endowed college in the country, but it is on track to...
Pumped Storage Reservoir

Why are People So Pumped About Pumped-storage Hydro?

Wind and solar make most of the headline renewable news, but they aren’t the only ones. If you’ve ever wondered about the alternative and...