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President-elect Obama has said many times that energy independence, economic growth and environmental protection are all top priorities on his agenda. However, the difficulty in reconciling those goals is quite significant, and is exemplified in the ongoing debate over drilling for fossil fuels on the nation's outer continental shelf. Should Obama try to reinstate the executive moratorium on offshore drilling that President Bush lifted earlier this year? If so, how and when? And what are the arguments against such a move?
-- Jeannette Lee, NationalJournal.com
6 responses: Chuck Gray, Skip Horvath, Randall Swisher, David Parker, Thomas Gibson, Jack Gerard
President-elect Obama is expected to announce a slate of new appointments today: Steven Chu as Energy secretary, Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator, Carol Browner as White House "energy czar" and Nancy Sutley as chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality. What do the picks signify in terms of how the new administration plans to approach energy and environmental issues?
-- Jeannette Lee, NationalJournal.com
6 responses: Rodger Schlickeisen, Chuck Gray, Larry Schweiger, Bill Meadows, Carl Pope, Frances Beinecke
President-elect Obama wants America to "develop and deploy clean coal technologies." To that end, coal companies Arch Coal and Peabody Energy and electric utility Ameren Corp. last week announced $12 million in clean coal and mining research grants to three universities. On the same day, the environmental community launched a campaign charging that clean coal is a myth because no U.S. utilities are capturing and burying their global warming pollution. The greens are challenging construction of nearly every new coal plant on the drawing board throughout the nation.
Should the nation stop building new coal-fired power plants until the technologies are perfected to burn coal without releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
-- Margaret Kriz, NationalJournal.com
14 responses: Margo Thorning, Jonathan Pershing, Bill Meadows, Thomas Gibson, Jon A. Anda, Kevin Knobloch, Guy Caruso, Skip Horvath, Carl Pope, Jim Rogers, Bill Kovacs, Hal Quinn, Jay Apt, Frances Beinecke
Last week, President-elect Obama announced plans for a massive new economic stimulus package that he said will include a plan to promote renewable energy and create green jobs. How would you design a green energy plan to meet those goals?
-- Margaret Kriz, NationalJournal.com
17 responses: David Kreutzer, Margo Thorning, Randall Swisher, Skip Horvath, Chuck Gray, Marvin Fertel, Frances Beinecke, Bob Dinneen, Jay Apt, Randall Swisher, Margaret Kriz, Jack Gerard, Larry Schweiger, Daniel J. Weiss, Bill Kovacs, Carl Pope, Jon A. Anda
