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During his State of the Union Address President Obama gave us hope that the US would finally tap its own resources to make us energy independent: But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies Sadly like most of the promises coming from this President this pledge came with an expiration...

Thursday, May 31, 2007 WASHINGTON, D.C. I t's hard to say who's more admirable in this tale of common sense and bipartisanship -- Rep. John Peterson or Rep. Neil Abercrombie. The conservative Pennsylvania Republican who made a compelling argument on a critical national issue or the liberal Hawaii Democrat who didn't get caught up in cliches and saw the wisdom of his argument. A few years back, Peterson was making the case for ending the congressional ban on natural gas exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf. Congress has passed the ban each year since 1981, and he was working in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have struck a deal with key party members including Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida that would allow the chamber to vote on opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to energy exploration, Senate aides said on Wednesday. Sen. Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, is pressing for a vote this month on a plan that would develop the Outer Continental Shelf off Florida, including a controversial area known as "Lease Sale 181." Domenici and Martinez met with Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday, and have struck a deal that will...