The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a significant expansion of U.S. electric vehicle (EV) tax credits. In contrast to the IRA’s extensions of other preexisting clean energy tax incentives, the IRA’s consumer EV tax...more
On March 31, to address rising energy prices in the U.S. and globally, the Biden administration announced a record release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, of roughly one million barrels per day, every day for the next...more
On February 16, 2021, in response to the extreme cold weather events resulting in significant power outages affecting millions of electricity customers throughout the Midwest and South Central states, particularly in systems...more
2/19/2021
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President Biden ran on an energy and environmental platform calling for a carbon-free power sector by 2035 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The new Administration has hit the ground running with a raft of Executive...more
In quick succession over the last few weeks, the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy issued two documents that, taken together, seem designed to spur the second wave of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export...more
Whether health care, climate change, taxes, or general international trade, it is hard to identify an area of policy in the United States that is not experiencing dramatic changes in the transition from President Obama to...more
On January 24, the Trump Administration issued one Executive Order and Three Presidential Memoranda that affect energy projects in the United States, including in particular two pipeline projects blocked by the Obama...more
1/26/2017
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