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A coalition of 35 Republican senators led by Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, Kit Bond of Missouri and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has called on the White House to tap new domestic oil and natural gas resources and to expeditiously complete the administration’s five-year plan for developing resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

Clashing directly with the White House again, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasted no time Wednesday making public his continued opposition to lifting the moratorium on offshore oil/gas drilling along the coast of California and other coastal sates.

Not since 1976 — when Peter Frampton was on the radio and Jimmy Carter was heading to the White House — have U.S. proved reserves of natural gas stood as high as they did last year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Not since 1976 — when Peter Frampton was on the radio and Jimmy Carter was heading to the White House — have U.S. proved reserves of natural gas stood as high as they did last year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Even the once skeptical White House has come to agree that nationally and internationally “climate change must be one of the drivers of energy policy at every level,” California’s chief regulator, Michael Peevey, told a receptive audience Oct. 10 in San Francisco before the Business Council for Sustainable Energy’s 2007 conference.

Even the long-criticized White House has come to agree that nationally and internationally “climate change must be one of the drivers of energy policy at every level,” California’s chief regulator, Michael Peevey, told a receptive audience last Wednesday in San Francisco before the Business Council for Sustainable Energy’s 2007 conference.

The White House sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Monday that outlines a “basic framework” for an energy bill that would not trigger a presidential veto.

The White House has tapped Walter Lukken to be chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Lukken has been acting chairman since late June, when then-Chairman Reuben Jeffery III resigned the agency.

The football stadium at Texas Christian University (TCU), which swells in the fall with the purple-and-white clad students and fans who are better known as the Horned Frogs, soon will be sharing space with natural gas drillers.