JUNE 15, 2011 If we discovered Chinese explosives laid throughout our national electrical system, we’d consider it an act of war. China’s digital bombs pose as grave a threat. By RICHARD CLARKE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:In 2009, this newspaper reported that the control systems for the U.S. electric power grid had been hacked and secret […]
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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Tue, Jun 14, 2011 BY MICHAEL BIESECKER – Staff writer Published in: State In a largely party-line vote, the state House approved a Republican-backed bill that rewrites state energy policy to promote and approve of drilling for natural gas on land and off the coast. Supporters
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JUNE 13, 2011 Coal is from Earth, Lisa Jackson is from mercury. President Obama’s jobs council will make its first recommendations today on lifting hiring and strengthening the economy. Too bad the message doesn’t seem to be reaching the Administration’s regulators, in particular the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA is currently conducting a campaign against
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JUNE 13, 2011 The drilling boom is the best U.S. energy news in generations and is crucial for reviving domestic manufacturing. By ROBERT BRYCE The U.S. is on the verge of an industrial renaissance if—and it’s a big if—policy makers don’t foul it up by restricting the ability of drillers to use the technology that’s
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THE AUSTRALIAN Ben Webster From: The Times June 10, 2011 A Jaguar electric car goes on show at a preview event for the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show. Picture: AFP Source: AFP ELECTRIC cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study
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JUNE 10, 2011 A Gulf Drilling Revival Notice how the energy breakthroughs are in oil and natural gas. Exxon Mobil Corp.’s huge new oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico is good news for domestic energy production, but it’s even better news as a sign that last year’s panic over the BP spill won’t continue
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SLATE Kernel of Truth Even Iowans don’t care about ethanol subsidies anymore. By John DickersonPosted Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at 7:44 PM ET Tim Pawlenty in Des Moines, IowaDES MOINES—Iowans think of themselves as particularly discerning voters. They like to tell reporters how they like to meet candidates a few times before coming to an
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JUNE 6, 2011 The government’s unnecessary disruption of the bankruptcy laws will do long-term damage to the economy. By DAVID SKEEL President Obama’s visit to a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday was the culmination of a campaign to portray the auto bailouts as a brilliant success with no unpleasant side effects. “The industry
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JUNE 6, 2011 Medicine will suffer if Washington controls the flow of scientific information. By SCOTT GOTTLIEB A federal judge sentenced the former head of a biotech company to six months of home confinement this spring and fined him $20,000. His offense? Issuing a single press release about a drug. Scott Harkonen is the former
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JUNE 7, 2011 As production slows, the North Slope pipeline could shut down. Perhaps you’ve heard politicians call for “independence” from foreign oil, however unrealistic the goal. What you probably haven’t heard about is the determined environmental campaign, abetted by the Obama Administration, to shut down the 38-year-old Trans-Alaska Pipeline. In its 1980s heyday, the
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