It’s bad enough not to get a clean debt bill, but it’s worse to impede electric transmission issues as part of the bargain.
Climate Crisis
Posted inEconomic Policy
Manchin’s Pipeline Payoff Strangles Future Permitting Reform Negotiations
The Fiscal Responsibility Act approved several items on fossil fuel industry wish lists, with nothing for renewable energy. That kills leverage for a broader deal.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Sempra Pushes to Expand Pacific Pipelines for Gas Export
The infrastructure arm of the California and Texas utility owner has lobbied for gas exports that could raise prices for its own customers.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Biden Admin Hypes Growing Asian Market for American Gas
Biden officials are hawking an Alaska pipeline and gas export complex long seen as uninvestable. They promise skeptical investors sustained market access to Asia.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Rahm Emanuel’s Gas Pipeline
The Biden administration is promoting a new liquefied natural gas complex on the Pacific Coast, with expanded subsidies from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Inflation Reduction Act.
Posted inPolitics
The Fake ‘Left-Wing Attack on Science’
The supposed mistreatment of an article that criticized leftist assaults on scientific objectivity was itself a fake. Why did the editors of The New York Times take this fraud seriously?
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Bind on Solar
Kuttner on TAP: Should he go all out to support domestic manufacture, or keep the flow of solar panels coming from China?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Manchin Again?!
In search of a deal on energy (and maybe the debt ceiling), the White House puts the West Virginia senator at the center of the action.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Energy Department Is Spoiling Biden’s Plan to Stabilize Oil Prices
The DOE appears reluctant to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to buy and sell crude oil in a way that would ‘step into a quasi-market management role.’
