DHS: border not just "a line in the frozen tundra up there"
Early in the Obama administration there were fears that Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano saw the Canadian and...
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Luiza Ch. Savage
Luiza Ch. Savage is Washington bureau chief. She covers U.S. politics and Canada-U.S. relations. She created Pipeline Politics, a one-hour documentary on the Keystone XL pipeline controversy.
Maybe Petraeus could also plug that hole in the Gulf
Below is Obama’s statement. Reasonable people disagree, but I don’t think he had much choice in replacing McChrystal. If he...
Podesta: "green oil sands" like "error-free deepwater drilling"
John Podesta, the head of an influential center-left think tank here in DC, whose many alumni populate the Obama...
Instead of cap-and-trade, "cap-and-dividend"
As attention on Capitol Hill shifts to the crafting of energy legislation, two US senators make the case for an alternative regime...
How to write a Thank You note
It’s Friday -- time for something non-depressing and non-oil spill or G-20 related. On June 28, the US Senate will begin...
Did Obama just kill cap-and-trade?
Will cap-and-trade legislation go the way of the "public option" for health care?
General Petraeus faints at Afghanistan hearing
I hope he’s okay. I had just turned on C-SPAN.org to hear his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but all I saw...
BP & the politics of energy: in bar graphs
Politico reports that Obama’s pollster is making the case on the Hill that the BP spill has primed public opinion for a major...
Something else to fight about: big piles of lithium in Afghanistan
So the Pentagon has figured out that Afghanistan sits on extreme untapped mineral wealth , including lithium used to make laptops...
BP Spill = more Alberta oil stateside? And more Canadian energy promotion
Gary Mar, Alberta’s envoy in Washington, is telling lawmakers that it’s likely that the BP oil spill could result in more...