<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Energy Policy: News &amp; Videos about Energy Policy - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Energy_Policy</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Energy Policy from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:55:42 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Energy Policy: News &amp; Videos about Energy Policy - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Energy_Policy</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Energy Policy from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Haggling over global warming</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/13/news/economy/globalwarming_deal/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/13/news/economy/globalwarming_deal/index.htm</guid><description>The success of a congressional effort to push through stymied climate change legislation remains far from a sure thing.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate panel approves climate change bill despite GOP boycott</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/05/senate.climate.change/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/05/senate.climate.change/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Senate committee Thursday approved a major climate change bill despite a boycott by all of the panel's seven Republican members.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>White roofs to fight global warming</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/13/news/economy/white_roofs/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/13/news/economy/white_roofs/index.htm</guid><description>America should attack global warming by ... painting rooftops and road surfaces white.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama makes eleventh-hour push for energy bill</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/25/obama.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/25/obama.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>President Obama acknowledged Thursday that a climate change bill strongly backed by the White House will face an extremely close vote in the House of Representatives as early as the end of the week.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-N.J. Gov.: Americans are in denial on energy</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/15/news/economy/whitman_economic_summit.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/15/news/economy/whitman_economic_summit.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>When politicians and businesspeople get together to discuss energy policy, it's usually the politicians who talk like dreamers and the private-sector folks trying to inject a little cold, hard realism into the conversation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Carter pushes energy reform plan to Congress</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/12/carter.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/12/carter.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Former President Carter warned members of Congress on Tuesday that America's failure to achieve energy independence is threatening the country's national security, undermining its long-term potential for economic growth and contributing to global warming.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 23:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deal on 'cash for clunkers' bill</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/05/news/companies/cash_for_clunkers/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/05/news/companies/cash_for_clunkers/index.htm</guid><description>The Obama administration has signaled its support for a congressional effort that aims to boost the troubled car industry by subsidizing new cars sales for consumers who scrap old ones.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Power play: Metering tools slash energy costs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/01/smallbusiness/power_play.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/01/smallbusiness/power_play.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>The minute a lightbulb burns out in your place of business, Don Howell can tell you about it. By e-mail, that is - the tall Virginian won't show up at your office door. His company, ADMMicro, installs power metering equipment that can tell when an air conditioning filter needs to be changed or whether a freezer door has been left open.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting your hands on some green ... stimulus</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/news/economy/green_home_stimulus/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/17/news/economy/green_home_stimulus/index.htm</guid><description>If you want to green-up your home - and get the government to kick in for part of the bill - now may be the time to do it, thanks to the stimulus.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>'Drill, baby, drill' process has begun</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/20/oil.drilling/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/20/oil.drilling/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Remember "drill, baby drill"? In its last weeks in office, the Bush administration is starting to make it happen by quietly starting the process of exploration and drilling off the coast of Virginia.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy Department, change is coming</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/03/news/obama_doe/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/03/news/obama_doe/index.htm</guid><description>President-elect Barack Obama's pick for energy secretary will likely lead the department through a new era with a sharp focus on renewable energy, but who'll lead a revamped agency is far from clear.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pickens: Greener U.S. would boost security, economy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/07/pickens.larry.king/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/07/pickens.larry.king/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Billionaire T. Boone Pickens says he doesn't know "where bottom is" regarding the U.S. economy, but he believes weaning America off foreign oil will create jobs and improve national security.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Palin to play ball with Big Oil</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/02/news/economy/palin_oil/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/02/news/economy/palin_oil/index.htm</guid><description>Sarah Palin gets a lot of credit for standing up to Big Oil in Alaska, but if she and John McCain win the White House, don't expect some of her more populist policies to survive the move to Washington.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy bills heating up in Congress</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/15/news/economy/energy_bills/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/15/news/economy/energy_bills/index.htm</guid><description>Congress will attempt to pass a key energy bill this week, testing its ability to deliver on a promise of action on oil as the Sept. 26 deadline edges closer.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy bill: Drowning in Washington</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/10/news/economy/energy_summit/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/10/news/economy/energy_summit/index.htm</guid><description>An energy summit is taking place Friday on Capitol Hill and all 100 senators - including the presidential candidates - are invited to attend. But with all the partisan sniping on The Hill, it's hard to tell if a comprehensive energy bill will be signed into law anytime soon.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Obama's energy plan would create green gold rush</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/25/kennedy.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/25/kennedy.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Barack Obama is a transformational figure in American history who's been able to excite the same intensity of feeling among Americans as I saw during my father's 1968 campaign and my uncle John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Democrats Open to Ocean Oil Drilling</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1833404,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1833404,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Democrats' stance against offshore drilling has shifted more, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaling on Saturday her willingness to consider opening up more coastal areas to oil and gas exploration</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pelosi open to vote on offshore drilling</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/12/pelosi.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/12/pelosi.qanda/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reversed her opposition to a vote on offshore drilling on "Larry King Live" on Monday night, saying she would consider a vote if it were part of a larger energy package.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain says U.S. needs 'economic surge'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/06/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/06/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain on Wednesday used language primarily associated with the Iraq war to describe the U.S. financial woes, saying the country needs an "economic surge" to boost the job market.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama, McCain energy plans</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/05/energy.plans/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/05/energy.plans/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground states.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy compromise offers test for Obama, McCain</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/05/energy.debate/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/05/energy.debate/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Barack Obama and John McCain play up their willingness to reach across the aisle, and now that there's a bipartisan energy compromise on the table, they have the opportunity to put their words to the test.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain points to independence; Obama likens him to Bush</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/05/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/05/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>After a string of ads attacking Barack Obama, John McCain has hit the airwaves with a television spot that looks to show his independence from the current administration.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Putting Obama's energy plan to the test</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/04/news/economy/obama_energy/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/04/news/economy/obama_energy/index.htm</guid><description>Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday that he feels Americans' pain from rising energy costs and laid out his plan to break the country's "addiction" to oil.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama says offshore drilling stance nothing new</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/02/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/02/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. Barack Obama responded Saturday to criticism that he has changed his position on opposing offshore oil drilling.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Two oil men' to blame for high gas prices, Pelosi says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/congress.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/congress.oil/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday blamed the "two oil men in the White House," President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and their Republican allies in Congress for gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawmakers seek oil-drilling compromise</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/16/gas.prices/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/16/gas.prices/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two bipartisan groups -- one in the House, one in the Senate -- are trying to rekindle stalled energy-legislation by forging a compromise to expand domestic oil and gas drilling.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pelosi calls on Bush to release reserve oil</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/pelosi_oil/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/pelosi_oil/index.htm</guid><description>U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday urged President Bush to release crude oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to combat high prices, a call Republicans used to bolster their push to increase domestic production with more drilling in environmentally sensitive areas.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil billionaire Pickens puts his money on wind power</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/pickens.plan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/pickens.plan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is putting his clout behind renewable energy sources like wind power.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil man unveils wind-based power plan</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/economy/oil_barron/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/economy/oil_barron/index.htm</guid><description>Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens Tuesday unveiled a new energy plan he says will decrease the United States' dependency on foreign oil by more than one-third and help shift American energy production toward renewable natural resources like wind power.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain calls U.S. dependence on foreign oil dangerous</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/25/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/25/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain vowed Wednesday to break the partisan deadlock on energy policy, saying the dependence on foreign oil puts the U.S. in a "dangerous situation."</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama slams McCain's energy policy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/campaign.wrap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. Barack Obama blasted Sen. John McCain's energy plans Tuesday as "gimmicks," saying his policies "will only increase our oil addiction for another four years."</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain wants to lift ban on offshore drilling</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/17/mccain.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/17/mccain.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John McCain on Tuesday proposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help combat rising gas prices.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Start drilling offshore, McCain says</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/17/news/economy/mccain_energy/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/17/news/economy/mccain_energy/index.htm</guid><description>Sen. John McCain on Tuesday will propose lifting the ban on offshore drilling as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help combat rising gas prices.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: Economy 'not as robust' as he wants</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/02/news/economy/bush/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/02/news/economy/bush/index.htm</guid><description>President Bush, responding to recent economic reports, said on Friday that "the economy is not as robust as any of us would like it."</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress, critical of tax breaks, lays into oil execs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/01/news/companies/oil_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/01/news/companies/oil_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>Lawmakers grilled executives from the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies Tuesday, criticizing them for taking tax subsidies and not investing in renewable resources amid record prices for oil and gasoline.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>What would you ask Big Oil?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/31/news/economy/oil_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/31/news/economy/oil_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>Under the backdrop of record gas prices and record profits, Congress is set to grill executives Tuesday from the world's five biggest publicly traded oil companies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>White House candidates and the environment</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/31/eco.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/31/eco.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. presidential race is under way, and environmental issues are taking a more prominent place in the candidates' campaigns than in the past. Along with the economy and the war in Iraq, climate change has become an integral part of each candidate's platform, a remarkable evolution from earlier U.S. presidential campaigns as recent as four years ago.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy bill promises lower-cost biz loans</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/15/smbusiness/energy_bill.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/15/smbusiness/energy_bill.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>The Small Business Administration (SBA) and other government agencies are currently at work fleshing out plans for the new small-business training and grant programs mandated by the sweeping, years-in-the-making energy bill signed into law last month by President Bush.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush's clean energy man</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/19/magazines/fortune/gunther_karsner.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/19/magazines/fortune/gunther_karsner.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Andy Karsner was in an ebullient mood the other day, and for good reason. Congress had just approved an energy bill, which, despite serious flaws, puts the country on a path that will promote renewable energy, reduce our dependence on oil, dramatically increase energy efficiency and curb the growth in greenhouse gas emissions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Part II: CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debate transcript</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/23/debate.transcript.part2/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/23/debate.transcript.part2/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>QUESTION: Hi, my name is Shawn and I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan. There is a scientific consensus for man-caused climate change, and I've heard each of you talk in previous debates about alternative energy sources like solar or wind, but I have not heard any of you speak your opinion on nuclear power. I believe that nuclear power is safer, cleaner, and provides a quicker avenue to energy independence than other alternatives.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>House marks $16B for renewable energy</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/news/economy/bc.usa.energy.house.reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/news/economy/bc.usa.energy.house.reut/index.htm</guid><description>The U.S. House Saturday passed a Democratic rewrite of U.S. energy policy that strips $16 billion in tax incentives away from Big Oil and puts it toward renewable energy sources like wind and solar power.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Farm bill planting energy seeds</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/24/news/economy/farmbill_ethanol/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/24/news/economy/farmbill_ethanol/index.htm</guid><description>Through a series of creative financing proposals that includes guaranteed loans, grants and aggressive research, the 2007 Farm Bill now before Congress provides seed money for the growth of alternative fuel production in the United States.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fueling America: Your e-mails</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/05/fa.your.emails/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/05/fa.your.emails/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>With fuel prices on the rise, concern over global warming growing and the 2008 presidential campaign heating up, CNN.com asked users if they thought the country was poised for major changes in energy and environmental policies. Here is a selection of responses, some of which have been edited for clarity.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Have we reached the energy tipping point?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/06/fa.critical.mass/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/06/fa.critical.mass/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In late June, the U.S. Senate passed an energy bill that would raise gas mileage standards for the first time in 20 years and fund research on alternative energy sources.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crunch time for Hitler's fuel</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/20/news/economy/coal_liquid/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/20/news/economy/coal_liquid/index.htm</guid><description>OK, so right away the headline puts a negative spin on "liquid coal" technology.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The war on oil</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/18/news/economy/ethanol_oilwar/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/18/news/economy/ethanol_oilwar/index.htm</guid><description>Coming soon to a test tube near you: America's new war.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>America's largest firms pledge to go green</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/04/news/companies/green_challenge/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/04/news/companies/green_challenge/index.htm</guid><description>Some of America's largest corporations pledged Monday to support green power, responding to a challenge posed by the Environmental Protection Agency.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Carbon market aims to slow global warming</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/10/27/earth.trading.carbon/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/10/27/earth.trading.carbon/index.html</guid><description>Hot air is now for sale.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who loves small business best? Bottom 5 states</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fsb/beststates_bottom10/index.html</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fsb/beststates_bottom10/index.html</guid><description>In exclusive rankings for FSB.com from the Small Business \&amp;amp; Entrepreneurship Council\*, we looked for places low on taxes and light on government regulations. These places aren\'t.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who loves small business best? Top 10 states</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fsb/beststates_top10/index.html</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fsb/beststates_top10/index.html</guid><description>Which places are low on taxes and light on government regulations? Exclusive rankings for FSB.com from the Small Business &amp;amp; Entrepreneurship Council.*</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bodman: Weaning America from foreign oil</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/11/bodman.commentary/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/11/bodman.commentary/index.html</guid><description>The summer heat has left Americans cranking up their air conditioners, leaving power companies scrambling to keep up with the surging demand for electricity.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Democrats call for new energy laws</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/congress.gas/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/congress.gas/index.html</guid><description>As the debate over what to do about high gas prices continued on Capitol Hill, Democrats on Wednesday called for a new energy bill and federal legislation to punish price gougers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Letters: Energy independence is a disaster in the making</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/02/news/economy/pluggedin_response_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/02/news/economy/pluggedin_response_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>There's a belief in journalism that when you make both sides mad, you must have done something right. So I guess I can take some solace in being cursed as both a right-wing oil-company shill and a tax-and-spend liberal.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy independence is a disaster in the making</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/28/news/economy/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/28/news/economy/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>It may be one of the most dangerous phrases in the English language. It certainly is one of the most expensive.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush blames lab's funding shortfall on mix-up</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/21/bush.energyfunding/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/21/bush.energyfunding/index.html</guid><description>President Bush told workers at a renewable energy lab Tuesday that the government had sent "mixed signals" over the future of its federal funding.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The hard truth about oil</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/08/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/08/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Presidents going back to Richard Nixon have been talking about energy independence. It's one of those vote-getting platforms that no one could possibly be against -- like world peace, mom and apple pie. It gives us the illusion of control over our energy destiny, which we don't have, at least in a fossil-fuel based economy.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil industry disputes proposed budget trim</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/06/budget.oil/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/06/budget.oil/index.html</guid><description>Oil drilling companies are upset that the Bush administration has proposed killing funding for oil and natural gas exploration research and development programs at the Department of Energy, an industry lobbyist said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush pushes fix for oil 'addiction'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/sotu.energy/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/sotu.energy/index.html</guid><description>President Bush called in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night for the United States to break its "addiction" to Middle Eastern oil using technological solutions.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ford CEO writes Bush for energy summit</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/23/news/fortune500/ford_energy_summit/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/23/news/fortune500/ford_energy_summit/index.htm</guid><description>Ford Motor Co. CEO Bill Ford Jr. is asking the White House to convene a summit to discuss the nation's energy issues and the auto industry's role in finding a solution.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iran is resolved to pursue nuclear program</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/17/iran.president/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/17/iran.president/index.html</guid><description>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fiercely defended his country's nuclear program and excoriated the U.S. government -- as well as its supporters -- in a speech Saturday to the United Nations General Assembly.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bodman: more oil coming to market</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/02/news/spr/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/02/news/spr/index.htm</guid><description>Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Friday that an international oil agency will make 60 million barrels of oil and gasoline available to the marketplace.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush urges more refineries, nuclear plants</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/27/bush.energy/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/27/bush.energy/index.html</guid><description>Comparing U.S. dependence on overseas oil to a "foreign tax on the American people," President Bush on Wednesday proposed a series of energy initiatives, including more oil refineries and nuclear plants, to combat the problem.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Greenhouse gas market to slow global warming</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/08/earth.trading.carbon/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/08/earth.trading.carbon/index.html</guid><description>Hot air is now for sale.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Kick the Oil Habit Gas prices are soaring,             pipelines are burning, oil supplies are tight. Here are four      </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/23/379395/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/23/379395/index.htm</guid><description>Every day brings another culprit. On Aug. 5 it was word that crude exports from Russia's massive Yukos Oil might be in jeopardy, as authorities there said they were once again freezing the company'...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unity, unions and energy independence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/06/fri/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/06/fri/index.html</guid><description>We'll be counting how many cheers President Bush receives this morning when he speaks to the Unity 2004 convention of minority journalists here.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can China Keep the Lights On? More cars on its roads, more air conditioners in its homes, more factories pumping out products. T</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/23/362191/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/23/362191/index.htm</guid><description>When Chinese troops opened fire on Soviet counterparts at a border checkpoint in 1969, the shots reverberated across the oilfields of Daqing. For much of the decade, a cadre of Chinese geologists a...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Preview spoils nuclear plant security test</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/26/nuclear.plant.test/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/26/nuclear.plant.test/index.html</guid><description>An exercise to test preparedness against a terrorist attack at a nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was compromised last summer when guards got a peek at the plans, according to a report by the Department of Energy's inspector general.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Breaking OPEC's Grip Forget about energy independence. We will continue to be reliant on imported oil. But that doesn't mean OPE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/11/12/313332/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/11/12/313332/index.htm</guid><description>To appreciate America's energy predicament in the post-Sept. 11 world, you don't have to visit the oil fields of Texas and Alaska or journey to East-of-Suez OPEC strongholds like Kuwait and Saudi A...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Plugged In Our new Secretary of Energy is putting             power politics to work.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2001/08/01/307080/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2001/08/01/307080/index.htm</guid><description>Who has the toughest job in President Bush's cabinet? These days I'd say it's Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. </description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2001 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PANICS, POLITICS, AND BAD POLICY WASHINGTON IS             BRISTLING WITH SHAM PROPOSALS TO CURE WHAT AILS THE ECONOMY.         </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/06/10/213268/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/06/10/213268/index.htm</guid><description>The only thing worse than the prospect of the White House and Congress attempting to right the wrongs of the American economy is the spectacle of them trying to do it in a hurry. Right now they're ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHO LOST THE U.S. OIL INDUSTRY? Blame nature, economics, and -- yes -- the environmentalists. But Big Oil's big shrink is no cal</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/29/78672/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/29/78672/index.htm</guid><description>EVER SINCE crude was discovered at Titusville, Pennsylvania, 134 years ago, U.S. oil producers have been a source and symbol of American industrial prowess. Five of the great Seven Sisters were Ame...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FIERY WELLS WON'T IGNITE OIL PRICES Iraq's scorching of the Kuwaiti petroleum patch is an environmental disaster, but the econom</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74816/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/25/74816/index.htm</guid><description>BLACK SEAS. Black rain. Black death. The Persian Gulf is now the inferno that the oil industry has speculated about -- and dreaded -- for decades. More than 500 of the best oil wells on earth are b...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ADVICE FOR BUSH ON U.S. ENERGY POLICY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/01/28/74629/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/01/28/74629/index.htm</guid><description>Long before Saddam Hussein underscored the need for the U.S. to be less dependent on Middle East oil, President Bush directed the Department of Energy to put together the thoughts of industrial lea...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 1991 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR OIL There's no longer any doubt that the Middle East cannot be relied on for petroleum. The world w</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/10/73997/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/09/10/73997/index.htm</guid><description>THE CONFRONTATION in the Persian Gulf conjures a host of horrible prospects: Shuttered factories. Gasoline lines. Blood in the sand. It might not come to that, of course. Iraq could yet withdraw fr...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GET READY FOR THE COMING OIL CRISIS The price of crude is settling down -- for a while anyway. But in a few years the U.S. is li</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/16/68784/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/16/68784/index.htm</guid><description>A YEAR OF Texas-size swings in the price of crude has turned the oil patch into the trenches. Like the survivors of Verdun after the shelling stopped, the U.S. petroleum industry is spooked. True, ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO KEEP OPEC ON ITS BACK Worries that cheap oil will make the U.S. too dependent on imports are fueling support for a tariff</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67606/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/05/26/67606/index.htm</guid><description>WITH GASOLINE PRICES averaging well below $1 a gallon, tanking up at the pumps leaves many an American motorist with a sense of well-being he hasn't felt in years. Nevertheless, a lot of people wor...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO CUT GAS PRICES / Congress could save consumers billions of dollars a year by reforming natural gas pipeline regulations.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/06/10/65902/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/06/10/65902/index.htm</guid><description>The gradual deregulation of natural gas prices has not yet brought the benefits of free-market economics to gas customers. Even though gas is in surplus and demand is low, consumers are paying arti...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 1985 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>