A recent American Petroleum Institute poll, conducted by Harris Poll, found that 77 percent of registered voters are concerned that increasing ethanol blends could result in higher consumer costs for gasoline and reductions in the country’s fuel supplies. Read More »

Luminant recently closed on its $1.3 billion acquisition of two combined-cycle natural gas plants in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market: the 1,912 megawatt-capacity Forney Power Plant in Forney and 1,076 megawatt-capacity Lamar Power Plant in Paris. Read More »

Chevron Corp. recently said Randolph Richards will replace the retiring 36-year company veteran Paul Bennett as corporate vice president and treasurer, effective May 1. Read More »

A recent engineering demonstration at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico successfully used a Multi-Mission Launcher (MML) to launch a Lockheed Martin Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) interceptor. Read More »

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) recently praised a new initiative from the power industry, called Grid Assurance, which seeks to improve power-grid resilience as the likelihood of extended power outages increases due to factors such as cyber attacks and terrorism, without relying on federal assistance Read More »

Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work concluded his recent trip to the Pacific Northwest with a visit to Boeing’s final-assembly facilities in Renton, Washington, for the Boeing 737 and the derivative P-8A Poseidon, a military marine patrol aircraft. Read More »

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) vowed to fight a recent subpoena from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker that would require the nonprofit to turn over a decade's worth of materials regarding its work on climate change. Read More »

At the International Conference & Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) this week in Perth, Australia, officials announced that the 2022 conference would be held in St. Petersburg, Russia. Read More »

Lockheed Martin said this week that it is teaming up with Babson Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of Babson College, to create a college for entrepreneurship at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Saudi Arabia. Read More »

The Department of Defense (DoD) said this week that aircraft from Marine Corps. Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 4 have been deployed to Turkey to beef up the coalition's electronic-attack strength against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Read More »

Officials at Security Service Federal Credit Union recently announced that it hired Janet Anne Parcenue to be the company’s new manager of Commercial Credit Underwriting. Read More »

The Department of Defense (DoD) recently recognized Dominion with its “Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves (ESGR) Extraordinary Employer Support Award,” which celebrates the company's support of the National Guard and Reserve service by prior recipients of the Secretary of Defense Freedom Award, which Dominion won in 2008. Read More »

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) recently initiated its first cooperative effort in the energy industry by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with German company Wintershall, a subsidiary of BASF. Read More »

Duke Energy Progress (DEP), which expanded its solar capacity last year, recently was ranked third on the Smart Electric Power Alliance’s (SEPA) list of utility companies that added new solar capacity in 2015. Read More »

Indiana, Department of the Navy (DON) and Duke Energy officials spoke about their cooperative efforts on energy security and energy resiliency initiatives within the state during a recent presentation at the Indiana Capitol. Read More »

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), chairman of the Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said the U.S. is woefully ill-prepared for the aftermath of a cyberattack that takes out the nation's electrical grid. Read More »

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter recently spoke to U.S. airmen earlier this week at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, highlighting their role in defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the need to counter Iran’s influence in the area. Read More »

A U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) team recently completed four months of work to increase the lab-analysis capabilities of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), which will now be able to better test for suspected biological warfare agents. Read More »

National Security Adviser Susan Rice recently spoke at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, detailing the "whole-of-government" strategy that the U.S. is taking against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Read More »

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (also called the Lightning II) program, which found that the Department of Defense (DoD) faces affordability and accountability challenges. Read More »