Sentences with phrase «u.s. energy interests»

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«While deliberating the spectrum of potential responses, we believe it is critical to consider the role that the U.S. energy industry and refining sector play in our economic and national security interest.

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry; Canadian Natural Resources Minister James Gordon Carr; and Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, Secretary of Energy, Mexico, are expected to discuss common interests and challenges.

More interesting is the return on the BofA Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield Energy Bond index, which has a whopping 18.26 % return YTD, but over the past year still has a negative 15.65 % return.

A historian by training, her research interests include nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation, nuclear energy industry, East Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, two Koreas, and the Cold War.

Insofar as our military interests remain reasonably aligned with the U.S., it's hard to see how Energy East brings about a material change.

This could lead to select opportunities among Energy, Technology, and Financials stocks in the U.S.. However, any notable economic improvements could close the window on such opportunities, and lead to higher short - term interest rates in the U.S. sooner than is currently priced into the markets.

With tensions in Middle East heating up and U.S. production of both crude and natural gas growing, here are some interesting strategies to take advantage of potential energy market moves.

His personal firm, Zeihan on Geopolitics, provides custom analytical products to wide variety of sectors, such as, energy majors, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities and the U.S. military.

From a list of more than 100 U.S. listed Natural Resources ETFs (energy, materials, solar... etc) the scan conducted after the close had found a couples of interesting trading candidates for the next trading session.

Brett Harris, a spokesman for Calgary - based Cenovus Energy Inc., a committed oil - sands shipper on the proposed pipeline, said the approval «is in the best interest of the industry, best interest of Canada and the best interest of the U.S. as well.

This article takes a really interesting look at why U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says China is the key to cutting global emissions — and to drive U.S. business toward developing energy technologEnergy Secretary Steven Chu says China is the key to cutting global emissions — and to drive U.S. business toward developing energy technologenergy technologies...

Romania poses enormous shale gas resources, which is attracting interest from U.S. energy companies.

[3] However, the U.S. should use force only to preserve its vital interests, such as energy supply and geostrategic advantage, but should disregard non-vital issues, such as democracy promotion, regime change or nation building.

Since the 1970's at least, the U.S. federal government has had an interest in alternative sources of energy, although funding for those efforts has risen and fallen with economic conditions, fuel prices, and political administrations, among other factors.

A report by the U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative estimates (pdf) that almost 1,000 college students graduate each year with an interest in electric - power engineering jobs, and an additional 1,000 students enroll in graduate - level power engineering programs.

There is relatively less interest in power - to - gas in the U.S., where hydrogen from electrolysis, even by taking advantage of cheap excess renewable energy, would have a tough time competing against abundant, low - cost shale gas.

«We are definitely interested in having an alternative source of energy available to us for both economic and environmental reasons, not to mention pure supply,» says John Heimlich, chief economist at the Air Transport Association of America (ATA) in Washington, D.C., which represents airlines responsible for more than 90 percent of U.S. passenger and freight air traffic.

A simple visual comparison of data maps released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Energy that display ADHD prevalence rates by state and solar intensities (sunlight) across the country, respectively, reveals an interesting pattern indicative of an association.

The U.S. Department of Energy and some other federal agencies are reportedly showing interest in the PSM.

The U.S. government is also interested in recycling the spent nuclear fuel, as France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. do, under the terms of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclear power.

Natural gas and domestic oil production got a shout - out in the address as part of the President's vision of supporting domestic energy resources, something that several Republican lawmakers were pleased, and perhaps surprised, to hear.What I thought was more interesting was the President specifically calling out how big of a consumer of energy the U.S.

Domestic interest is such that, experts say, the U.S. tidal energy market may overtake Europe in a few years.

That potential has attracted the interest of the Department of Energy, which has funded five enhanced geothermal system demonstration projects in the U.S..

Slashing climate and clean energy funds will undermine U.S. business and diplomatic interests and lead to greater security risks for us all.

The research also has spurred Congressional inquiries, specifically Mike Connor, Democratic Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, and Craig Harper, Office of U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein, and interest from the Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund.

Lynnea Smith and John Fogarty represented the group at a news conference at the National Press Club where the U.S. Public Interest Research Group issued a report critical of the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry embodied in the House Energyenergy industry embodied in the House EnergyEnergy Bill.

On Nov. 23, 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a Call for Information and Nominations to gauge the offshore wind industry's interest in acquiring commercial wind leases in four areas offshore South Carolina and to request comments.

Groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest have called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add safety warnings to energy drinks, and American Academy of Pediatrics researchers have argued the stimulants in energy drinks have «no place in the diet of children and adolescents.»

There are over 150 meet - up groups categorized under «environment» in the U.S. ranging from general green interests to specifics like biodiesel or energy.

Currently, less than 2 percent of U.S. propane consumption is used for transportation; however, interest is growing due to its domestic availability, high energy density, and clean - burning qualities.

«The U.S. is adding jobs, disposable income is rising, energy prices and interest rates remain low and business continues to invest, but the fact remains this has been a slow recovery,» said Mustafa Mohatarem, GM's chief economist.

A low fee, broad market exchange traded fund for the U.S. economy as a whole, a global ETF and a Canadian broad ETF equally weighted to reduce concentration in banks and energy, and a 5 to 10 year corporate bond ladder would add diversification with dividends from stocks and interest from bonds and produce a more secure portfolio.

If you're not interested in the TSX Composite, feel free to do a similar strategy using the TSX 60, the U.S. market, Canada's REIT or energy sectors, or even bonds if you're a little nervous about that whole area.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

It really points to very serious widespread problems in the U.S. academic and journalistic professions — you can't do research on renewable energy in the U.S. academic system, because of fossil fuel influence, and you can't get honest coverage of renewable energy initiatives in the U.S. press, also because of undue influence by vested interests — and more often than not these days, those vested interests are in finance, not in industry.

We need someone with the courage to stand up to the special interests who have hamstrung U.S. policy, including the minority of anti-nukes who have controlled the energy policy of the Democratic party.

A bill introduced in Congress this week to «save uranium mining,» the Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011, would undo that protection from new uranium mining claims.Despite all the talk about energy independence, «a significant percentage of these mining claims and pending operations are controlled by foreign interests, which pay no royalties for the mineral wealth they extract from U.S. public lands,» said Jane Danowitz of the Pew Environment Group, in response to the legislation.

In addition to working with other countries to advance American interests, U.S. delegates will keynote a series of events highlighting actions by the Obama Administration to provide domestic and global leadership in the transition to a clean energy economy.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

This strong interest in renewable energy by businesses has prompted vigorous U.S. investment in wind energy.

The president chose the politics of a few over sound science and fundamental economics, ideology over the national interest, to cause a stunning defeat for the United States, American energy security and America's energy partnership with Canada — and a stunning victory for countries like Venezuela, which will benefit from the U.S. saying no to the oil Keystone XL would bring from Canada and the U.S. Bakken region.

In response, a task force is being formed by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is also checking to see if other companies are interested in competing with Trident Winds for a potential lease.

This is a political problem that can be resolved if the Administration and Congress hold the U.S. Forest Service responsible for the interests in developing all available energy from all available sources, according to Debenham.

In the United States, new energy entrepreneurs have mentioned the same self - interest motivation, as demonstrated recently at the Clean Energy Ministerial Stakeholder meeting (click here to view major U.S. stakeholders» presentatenergy entrepreneurs have mentioned the same self - interest motivation, as demonstrated recently at the Clean Energy Ministerial Stakeholder meeting (click here to view major U.S. stakeholders» presentatEnergy Ministerial Stakeholder meeting (click here to view major U.S. stakeholders» presentations).

The heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the «I'm an Energy Voter» campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

The topic of discussion was «Decarbonizing King Coal: Growing U.S. - China Clean Technology Cooperation», and my fellow panelists Ming Sun of Clean Air Task Force (pictured right) and Albert Lin representing Future Fuels, LLC (pictured left) had very interesting perspectives on the role of «clean coal» in China's energy future.

Highlighting CSPO's growing engagement with sustainability, energy justice, and the role of the Department of Defense in promoting energy transformations, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of biofuels in the U.S. energy system.

The research methodology manages to systematically ignore the most critical evidence surrounding the drivers undermining U.S. primacy: such as, the biophysical processes of climate, energy and food disruption behind the Arab Spring; the confluence of military violence, fossil fuel interests and geopolitical alliances behind the rise of ISIS; or the fundamental grievances that have driven a breakdown in trust with governments since the 2008 financial collapse and the ensuing ongoing period of neoliberal economic failure.

Offshore wind development in New York is also benefiting from the interest of the New York Power Authority, which happens to be the largest state - based energy agency in the U.S.:

Interesting weekend remarks from the Energy Department's deputy secretary on U.S. oil and natural gas exports to Europe — especially so because DOE is the key federal agency in allowing domestic liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects to proceed.