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Now that the Democratic and Republican conventions are complete, here is a capsule look at the candidates’ energy policies as expressed in their platform documents.
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Electric utilities benefit from billions of dollars in tax breaks every year, according to a recent report from The Institute for Policy Studies entitled, Utilities Pay Up: How Ending Tax Dodging by America’s Electric Utilities Can Help Fund a Job-Creat
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When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act in 2010, it mandated that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reform the commodities marketplace by improving market oversight. In the six years since then, the CFTC has failed to
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The Oilheat industry is facing a little less pressure now following last month’s decision by Kinder Morgan to abandon the proposed Northeast Energy Direct Pipeline (NED), which would have brought natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsyl
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Opponents of commodity market position limits recently tried to use an agency advisory committee to advance their anti-oversight agenda but drew pointed criticism from key advocates of market fairness. Chris Giancarlo, a Republican member of Commodity
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The New England Fuel Institute (NEFI) Government Affairs Committee (GAC) recently received a comprehensive report from NEFI staff about important policy issues facing the heating oil industry.
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