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+Agriculture | 88 days ago

Hate High Energy Prices? Eat More Cheese.

By Massimo Calabresi

An accounting firm called Baker Tilly (“Candor. Insight. Results.”) sent me an e-mail last Thursday with the following subject line:

Waste to Energy at International Cheese Technology Expo

It took me a little while to get my head around the full power of this beautifully terse and irresistibly earnest pitch. We were dealing here not just with cheese technology, but an entire expo devoted to it. Moreover, during this expo the benefits of converting cheese production waste into energy were, apparently, to be discussed. This cleverly front-loaded twist—“Waste to Energy”—was, on its own merits, a near-perfect teaser. Are we talking whey? Cow dung? (Both, it turns out!) It was almost impossible not to read on.

+White House | 239 days ago

The Next Twist in the Solyndra Scandal

By Michael Scherer

More Solyndra emails from the White House are coming. Just how many is unclear, as is whether or not they will contain any news. The last batch–hundreds of pages of correspondence between low-level Solyndra executives and President Obama’s advance team–revealed little, beyond one aide’s view that the manufacturing robots at Solyndra’s factory looked “awesome.” But Republicans hope that the next batch, requested by House Energy and Commerce Committee, will yield more about the relationship between the White House and George Kaiser, the billionaire investor in the solar company who also worked as a bundler for President Obama’s 2008 campaign.

+Viewpoint | 353 days ago

Mitt Romney: Obama’s Next Energy Czar?

By Michael Grunwald

I suspect that Mitt Romney’s record of sane centrist achievement, along with his hilarious flip-floppery and unconvincing pose as a red-meat right-winger, will doom him in the Republican primary. But it would be a shame to waste his talents, so I’m going to start proposing possible jobs for him in the sane centrist Obama administration. [...]

+Tea Party | 674 days ago

Speaker Boehner?

By Jay Newton-Small

House Minority Leader John Boehner sat down with political reporters today at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. He was asked right off the bat about what his agenda would be if Republicans win the House in November and he’s chosen as Speaker. Boehner was quick to note that his conference had just [...]

+Senate | 730 days ago

Muddying the Oil

By Jay Newton-Small

British Petroleum is about to try and plug the leak with a never-tried-at-this-depth procedure called a “top kill” which essentially dumps upwards of 50,000 barrels of drilling mud on top of the leak followed by cement to plug it permanently. You can watch this process live over the next two days here. The risks are [...]

+Barack Obama | 890 days ago

1,000 Words: Do-It-Yourselfer Edition

By Karen Tumulty

From the President’s trip to an Alexandria, Va., Home Depot the other day. (H/T @delrayser, who called this one to my attention):

+Nancy Pelosi | 1389 days ago

More Hot Air

By Jay Newton-Small

A webstory today about all the hot air in the energy debate. Also, interestingly, a scoop from Politico’s Martin Kady II and Patrick O’Connor about how Pelosi behind the scenes is encouraging her members to defect, banking on passing legislation next year. Dana Milbank has loads more color on the House protest. And here’s a [...]