Energy Policy Blog

In April of this year natural gas-fired electric power generation overtook coal-fired generation. This is a first, reflecting a significant rise in natural gas generation – a 40 percent increase from 2008 to 2012.

Energy is a big issue in this election, a situation that has not occurred since the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s.

Sequestration, the package of automatic spending cuts that’s part of the Budget Control Act, which was passed by Congress in August 2011, would cut non-defense agency budgets by 7.6 percent and defense budgets by 9.1 percent.

You probably know that the chemical composition of hydraulic fracturing fluids is a controversial issue for many people living in areas where many new wells are being frac’ed or fraced or fracked.

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists is seeking a director of its Geoscience and Energy Office in Washington, D.C. area (GEO-DC).

The January edition of Washington Watch is now available online.

The October edition of Washington Watch is now available online.

At the end of September the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Enforcement (BOEMRE) will be replaced by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).

As the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) prepares to separate into two separate agencies on October 1, Director Michael Bromwich today announced a series of senior appointments to the new agencies:

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists joined 17 other associations in a September 8 letter urging President Barack Obama to speed up oil and gas permitting in the Gulf of Mexico.