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Romney Vows Immediate Approval of Keystone XL on First Day in White House

Romney Vows Immediate Approval of Keystone XL on First Day in White House

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Mitt Romney is vowing to approve TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline on his first day on the job if elected U.S. president in November.

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  • Anthony Swift The Speaker of the House John Boehner has just announced that he plans to hold payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits hostage to a bill that would rubber stamp approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This legislation, proposed by Rep. Lee Terry (Neb.), is nothing like the bill the House voted on in the summer. Rather than requiring an expedited decision by the Administration, Terry’s new bill would require automatic approval of Keystone XL in thirty days, giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authority to permit (but not decline) a Presidential permit. (more...)
  • John McArdle, E&E reporterJust when you thought the controversy over Solyndra might be dying down, along comes House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to keep the issue square in the spotlight. Nine months after the House Energy and Commerce Committee kicked off its investigation into what was then a little-known California solar energy company, Issa is in the early stages of what he is calling a wider probe of political interference in the federal grant and loan application process. (more...)
  • Erika Johnsen Since the Obama administration seems to do everything in its power to stonewall the domestic energy industry, including weak non-decisions like the Keystone pipeline, keeping up a virtual drilling moratorium, and creating-then-promptly-losing "green" jobs, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that the President is starting to lose some traction among blue collar workers. From a new CNN/ORC poll: (more...)
  •   With Keystone XL delay, America continues its slow economic strangulation By Charles Campbell In 1969, three unrelated events occurred that have since been combined with political bungling to slowly strangle the U.S. economy. Moammar Gadhafi overthrew King Idris of Libya. He nationalized Western oil company reserves with no retribution from the U.S. Sensing our weakness, all of the other OPEC nations abrogated their concession agreements with U.S. companies. The Arab producers cut back production and embargoed the U.S. because of our support for Israel. Middle East despots have been in the driver's seat ever since, and as the Arab Spring seems increasingly likely to empower Islamists, things are unlikely to get better. (more...)
  • By Steve Gates On the presidential campaign trail, throughout Capitol Hill, and in your neighborhoods there’s been a lot of discussion and debate on how America should move forward with energy policy.  Currently, a lot of those discussions center around whether or not proposed EPA regulations would affect our economic and energy security. Within that discussion and debate, there have been a lot of myths tossed around about proposed EPA regulations. We want to lay out the facts about how these potential rules would affect Americans. (more...)
  • One on One By Maria Bartiromo The GOP debates have had a similar ring to them, with candidates blaming high unemployment on heavy regulation and expensive policies from Washington. After co-moderating the CNBC debate, I turned to Tom Donohue, who as head of the Chamber of Commerce, the pre-eminent pro-business lobbying organization in the U.S., is seen as the voice of Corporate America. I asked him what's holding back business from hiring. As an example of a major potential for job creation, he pointed to the Keystone XL pipeline, which last week said it may be able to win approval in six to nine months as its parent, TransCanada, negotiates with Nebraska and U.S. officials about a new route. Our conversation below is edited for clarity and length. (more...)
  • Shipping our oilsands bitumen to Texas and Oklahoma through the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline may be in doubt after the U.S. State Department announced an environmental review of alternative routes for the project. This puts the pipeline on temporary hold, jeopardizing thousands of potential U.S. jobs, until well into 2013. Critics are savaging President Obama over the move, which amounts to shoring up the liberal swing vote in the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election. (more...)
  • By COREY BOLES WASHINGTON—House Republicans said Thursday they want to expand U.S. domestic energy production and use the increased federal royalties to pay for more bridge and highway repairs and construction—a plan that appears aimed at wrestling control of the jobs debate away from Democrats. The proposed legislation would open up more offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, establish clear rules for the extraction of oil from shale rock and open up a small portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploratory drilling. (more...)
  • By Lee-Anne Goodman WASHINGTON - American environmentalists admit TransCanada made a major concession by rerouting its proposed Keystone XL pipeline, but insist they'll keep trying to prevent the controversial oilsands project from ever being built. After months of standing by the chosen route, Calgary-based TransCanada did a prompt about-face on Monday, offering to skirt the Sandhills area of Nebraska — home of a massive aquifer that provides drinking water to millions on the Great Plains. (more...)
  • Earlier this month, the Texas Public Policy Foundation officially launched the "Free American Energy Now!" campaign, a partnership with Salem Radio Network to increase public awareness of the ways in which federal environmental policy is impeding American economic recovery and energy independence. (more...)
  • President Obama is doing his best to blame his bad economic record on his Republican opponents. By Raymond Richman and Howard Richman He has a proposed bill, the American Jobs Act, which would supposedly create jobs, so he bashes Republicans at every opportunity for not supporting it.  Meanwhile, his potential Republican opponents have some much better alternatives that would create huge numbers of jobs without costing the federal government a dime. (more...)

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