While you were toasting…
CEA’s recent year in review offered a long list of achievements in public policy, technology and public opinion that all helped advance our goals...
Frozen Out of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Permafrost, as everyone who has worked in the oil sector in Alaska knows, describes soil that remains frozen year round. Back in the 1970s,...
The consumer energy year in review
New Year’s brings a time for all of us to review what we’ve accomplished over the past 12 months and chart a course for...
A season of paradox
Folks living within a vast swath of the eastern United States had their festive plans for caroling and last-minute holiday shopping disrupted over the...
Getting serious about shale
Exxon Mobil this week announced plans to buy the independent gas producer XTO Energy for $41 billion – by far the largest deal for...
What research says about Low Carbon Fuel standards (and low chocolate standards)
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard is making the rounds again in news reports about national and global energy policies. And why not? What’s not...
Alaska in balance
To fully appreciate the significance of the Interior Department’s long-awaited decision earlier this week to allow Shell Oil to drill three exploratory wells in...
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...
Cow power
There’s something, well, powerful, about any creature that produces 120 pounds of waste every day. That’s the amount of manure that dairy farmers must...
Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Travels
In what has become something of an annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition, the latest survey of people’s travel plans this year shows a slight increase in...
