by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2013 | Agenda 21
The petroleum industry formally asked the Obama administration on Tuesday to lower the amount of corn-based ethanol refiners must blend into transportation fuel in 2014. Failing to adjust the Renewable Fuel Standard’s blending targets could result in “severe harm to...
by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2013 | Agenda 21
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently released its “State of the Climate in 2012” report, which states that “worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record.”But the report “fails to mention [2012] was one of the coolest of the decade,...
by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2013 | Agenda 21
The “new energy future” will require the federal government to encourage “the right kinds of behavior,” Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a clean energy summit in Nevada on Tuesday. “When you are getting into a new energy future, you...
by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service (FMS), which publishes both the federal government’s official Daily Treasury Statement and its official Monthly Treasury Statement, is reporting that in July the federal government ran a deficit of $98...
