The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin says that Chase Hutto, Dick Cheney's leading environmental and energy adviser, could soon become a top official at the Energy Dept. The possible news, though, is more of an opportunity for Eilperin to explore Hutto's central role in a bunch of anti-environmental Bush environmental ...

Administration officials spent last year talking up the Energy Department’s Future GenAlliance project, a plan to trap carbon emissions in coal before they reach the atmosphere. Now the Department is dropping the project due to high costs and new technologies that may make coal-fired plants (even with carbon-trapping) obsolete. ...

Writing in Foreign Policy magazine for November/December 2007, Veejay Vaitheeswaran offers a wide-angle view of the future of oil and debunks seven widely-accepted ideas about oil's vise grip on creative policymaking.  One is the idea that government can, with the help of a "visionary leader," quickly move a country away from oil dependence.