Climate change is an urgent national security issue. So says a recent National Intelligence Assessment and an influential group of retired military officers and defense experts at the Center for Naval Analysis, a nonprofit policy analysis group.
Left unchecked, they say, global…
An old baseball cliché says that “speed don’t slump.” In Washington, it’s lobbying that don’t slump.
President Barack Obama’s policy proposals may not have created many jobs so far in most sectors of the economy, but the lobbying industry is going gangbusters.…
The tough new emissions and mileage standards announced by the White House on Tuesday are a major step forward for automakers and the planet.
The new standards will significantly reduce the release of heat-trapping greenhouse gases from cars at a time when…
Describing Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s new job is simple: Oversee the transformation of the United States from a carbon-based economy to one based on clean energy.
Pulling it off, however, will be a little more challenging. It will be a massive…
This editorial is just a place holder. We haven’t decided yet whether to write about one of the biggest issues facing Missouri legislators this year.
Our colleague Tony Messenger did. In a column published Tuesday, Mr. Messenger wrote that executives from utility…
With most of the nation focused on a historic presidential campaign and election, Bush administration officials have been busy preparing parting gifts for their friends in private industry.
They’re scrambling to rewrite scores of federal regulations. Among the goals: to allow…
We posted video of Republican candidate Kenny Hulshof talking about his energy policy this week. Here, his Democratic opponent Attorney General Jay Nixon talks about the same subject.
U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof, the Republican candidate for governor, visited with Post-Dispatch editors and writers this week. You’ll see more about our conversation later, but here’s a part of that conversation that focused on energy.
Mr. Hulshof has…
However it may dismay Americans to watch Russian tanks rolling over a tiny, democratic U.S. ally, you have to hand it to Putin — the invasion of Georgia was nothing short of brilliant.
The groundwork for this invasion was meticulously laid…
In previous posts, I have mentioned the revolutionary in situ extraction method for oil shale recently developed by Royal Dutch Shell that finally makes the extraction of oil shale not only economically viable but environmentally friendly.
The United States is sitting…
U.S. Representative and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO 7th) came in to have a chat with the Post-Dispatch editorial board today, discussing a wide range of election-year issues ranging from energy to health care to his take on the presidential race.
Energy
Most…
Most people probably believe that the age of exploration — at least on this planet — ended long ago. It’s tempting to assume that with today’s advanced technology, every corner of the earth has been mapped, scanned, and scoured for every…
If the economy is widely known to be the “#1 issue” in this election cycle, then the #2 issue could be energy. $4-a-gallon gasoline is routinely listed by voters as one of their top concerns. Recent polls have “energy” tied with…
Findsolar.com has a neat solar calculator that shows how well a solar-powered residential electrical system would work in your area.
According to the calculator, St. Louis has a “good” rating for residential solar energy — 4.859 kWh/sq-m/day, to be exact.
With oil prices hitting $130 a barrel and gas averaging over $4 a gallon, energy is an issue weighing increasingly heavily on Americans’ minds. It’s also promising to play a major role in the upcoming elections.
Both John McCain and Barack…
