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March 22, 2013
Tiny Think Tank a Major Player on Energy Policy
Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), which aims to reduce oil consumption by radically changing the cars and trucks we drive, is the unlikely driving force behind President Obama’s newest energy proposal.
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March 16, 2013
Energy plan can 'break the cycle' of oil dependence, Obama says
Using revenue collected from drilling on public lands to fund alternative energy research will help Americans break their dependence on oil, President Barack Obama predicted in his weekly address on Saturday.
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March 15, 2013
Can Obama's Energy Trust Fund Idea Gain Traction in Congress?
Gasoline prices and global temperatures are on the rise and so, once again, is pressure on Washington to take action on energy and climate change. The chance that the deadlocked Congress will strike a deal this year on a broad law to seriously reform the nation’s energy systems is slim to nil.
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March 15, 2013
Obama's Energy Security Trust takes from history of U.S.-funded fracking research
When President Obama visits Argonne National Laboratory outside of Chicago today, he'll use the bully pulpit to shape a second-term policy priority: to build a national research fund that aims to take oil-burning cars off the roads.
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March 15, 2013
Obama to roll out plans for funding transportation R&D during lab visit
President Obama will urge Congress today to establish an "energy security trust" that would spend federal revenue from oil and gas production on research in low-carbon transportation technologies, an idea the administration believes has bipartisan backing on Capitol Hill.
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March 15, 2013
Obama pushes $2B clean tech plan during national lab visit
President Obama today urged Congress to use revenues from oil and gas drilling to fund research into low-carbon transportation technologies and highlighted the devastating effects that sequester cuts are having on the country's national labs.
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