Energy Project

About the Project

Without question, our economy—in fact our way of life—is highly dependent on access to stable, affordable supplies of energy. We must unify as a nation in a bipartisan manner around a new era in energy security. The BPC Energy Project supports a fundamental reassessment of America’s energy policy goals, decision-making structures, and policies to place energy security at the very center of energy policy.

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Featured Video

Overhauling Energy Subsidies: Confronting the New Fiscal Reality
Oct. 24, 2011

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Leadership in the News

Don’t delay action on energy issues
Jan. 24, 2012

As Congress returns and the president prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, many Americans, including members of Congress from both parties, are frustrated about the seemingly endless string of partisan battles over energy policies and projects.

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Featured Report

Shale Gas: New Opportunities, New Challenges
Jan. 19, 2012

Reaping the full economic and environmental benefits of an expanded U.S. gas resource base requires building public confidence that shale gas resources will be developed in a safe and environmentally sound manner.

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Staff Spotlight

U.S. will lead new effort to cut global warming from methane, soot
Feb. 15, 2012

Paul Bledsoe of the Bipartisan Policy Center noted that, in the United States, efforts to reduce methane and soot are far less politicized than efforts to reduce carbon dioxide. Even one of the most vehement congressional opponents of limiting carbon dioxide emissions, Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), supports cutting soot emissions.

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