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Posted: 5/2/2013 1:53:30 PM EST
FILE -This Wednesday, May 9, 2012, file photo, shows drilling rig near Kennedy, Texas, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Some thought the South Texas area known as Eagle Ford Shale would never produce much oil, but now the Department of Energy predicts it holds 3.4 billion. Some even expect 10 billion, which would make it the biggest oil field in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Posted: 3/12/2013 1:02:01 AM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama nominates air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy and Walmart's philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become director of the White House budget office, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Posted: 3/9/2013 8:03:48 AM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama nominates air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy and Walmart's philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become director of the White House budget office, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Posted: 3/5/2013 7:44:23 PM EST
President Barack Obama nominates air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy and Walmart's philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become director of the White House budget office, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Posted: 3/4/2013 2:16:33 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama nominates air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy and Walmart's philanthropic head Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become director of the White House budget office, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Posted: 2/15/2013 6:23:22 PM EST
Keith Phillips, energy policy adviser to Gov. Jay Inslee, talks to the media about a tank leak at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, joined by Mary Sue Wilson from the Attorney General's Office, left, Maia Bellon, director of the Department of Ecology, second from right, and Inslee spokesman David Postman, far right, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Olympia, Wash. The U.S. Department of Energy said liquid levels are decreasing in one of 177 underground tanks, but that higher radiation levels have not been detected. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Posted: 2/15/2013 6:23:22 PM EST
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, right, is joined by Maia Bellon, director of the Department of Ecology, at a news conference to discuss a tank leak at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Olympia, Wash. The U.S. Department of Energy said liquid levels are decreasing in one of 177 underground tanks, but that higher radiation levels have not been detected. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Posted: 11/11/2012 11:33:27 AM EST
In this 2012 photo provided by ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., methane extracted from a hydrate well is burned at a drill site on Alaska’s North Slope. A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source. The U.S. Department of Energy and industry partners over two winters drilled into a reservoir of methane hydrate, which looks like ice but burns like a candle as warmth from a match releases methane molecules. (AP Photo/ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., Garth Hannum)
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Posted: 11/11/2012 11:33:27 AM EST
In this 2012 photo provided by ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., a drill rig at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope is seen. This rig is testing a method for extracting methane from methane hydrate. The department describes methane hydrate as a lattice of ice that traps methane molecules but does not bind them chemically. A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source. The U.S. Department of Energy and industry partners over two winters drilled into a reservoir of methane hydrate, which looks like ice but burns like a candle as warmth from a match releases methane molecules. (AP Photo/ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc., Garth Hannum)
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Posted: 10/16/2012 11:53:32 AM EST
FILE- In this April 30, 2010, file photo, from right, A123 Systems, President and Chief Executive Officer David Vieau, A123 Systems electrical engineer James Fenton and A123 Systems design engineer Antonio Biundo, stand next to President Barack Obama, as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administration’s funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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Posted: 10/16/2012 11:53:32 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2007, file photo, President Bush, center, listens to Dave Vieau, President and CEO of A123 Systems, right, as he is shown a Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid car utilizing a lithium power battery during a demonstration of alternative fuel automobiles on the South Lawn of the White House. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administration’s funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Posted: 9/23/2012 4:18:25 PM EST
FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, a crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. It sounds like a free-market success story: a new gas drilling boom driven by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which delivers a vast new source of cheap energy without the government subsidies that solar and wind power demand. But men who helped pioneer fracking recall a different story. From the shale fields of Texas and Wyoming to the Marcellus in the northeast, the U.S. Department of Energy contributed more than $100 million in direct federal research to help develop fracking, and Congress added $10 billion in tax breaks. Now, some of the biggest supporters of shale gas say the government should continue to back renewable energy research - for decades, if need be - to deliver future breakthroughs in that field. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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Posted: 4/10/2012 7:40:50 PM EST
FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2006, file photo, a train loaded with coal travels through northeast Wyoming near Gillette. Government data shows U.S. coal exports reached their highest level in two decades last year as strong overseas demand offered an outlet for a fuel that?s been falling from favor at home. The U.S. Department of Energy data analyzed by The Associated Press reveals that coal exports topped 107 million tons in 2011. That?s the highest level since 1991 and more than double the export volume from just six years ago. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik,File)
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Posted: 4/10/2012 7:40:49 PM EST
FILE - In this April 2007, file photo, a shovel prepares to dump a load of coal into a 320-ton truck at the Black Thunder Mine in Wright, Wyo. Government data shows U.S. coal exports reached their highest level in two decades last year as strong overseas demand offered an outlet for a fuel that?s been falling from favor at home. The U.S. Department of Energy data analyzed by The Associated Press reveals that coal exports topped 107 million tons in 2011. That?s the highest level since 1991 and more than double the export volume from just six years ago. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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Posted: 3/14/2012 4:08:05 PM EST
Britain's Minister of State for Department of Energy Charles Hendry listens during the 13th International Energy Forum in Kuwait City March 14,2012. REUTERS/Jassim Mohammed(KUWAIT - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)
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Posted: 2/3/2012 11:57:02 AM EST
Newly-appointed Energy Secretary Ed Davey speaks to members of the media as he arrives at the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London February 3, 2012. Employment minister Ed Davey was appointed on Friday as Energy and Climate Change Secretary to replace Chris Huhne who has resigned following news he is to be charged over allegations he tried to cover up a speeding offence. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS ENERGY SOCIETY)
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Posted: 2/3/2012 11:44:55 AM EST
Newly-appointed Energy Secretary Ed Davey speaks to members of the media as he arrives at the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London February 3, 2012. British Energy Secretary Chris Huhne resigned on Friday after learning he would face criminal charges for allegedly lying to police, a fall from grace that could tweak the dynamics of the coalition government and weaken its environmental agenda. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS ENERGY SOCIETY)
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Posted: 2/3/2012 11:39:34 AM EST
Newly-appointed Energy Secretary Ed Davey arrives at the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London February 3, 2012. British Energy Secretary Chris Huhne resigned on Friday after learning he would face criminal charges for allegedly lying to police, a fall from grace that could tweak the dynamics of the coalition government and weaken its environmental agenda. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS ENERGY SOCIETY)
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Posted: 2/3/2012 11:37:06 AM EST
Newly-appointed Energy Secretary Ed Davey arrives at the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London February 3, 2012. British Energy Secretary Chris Huhne resigned on Friday after learning he would face criminal charges for allegedly lying to police, a fall from grace that could tweak the dynamics of the coalition government and weaken its environmental agenda. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS ENERGY SOCIETY)
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Posted: 2/3/2012 11:35:32 AM EST
Newly-appointed Energy Secretary Ed Davey arrives at the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London February 3, 2012. British Energy Secretary Chris Huhne resigned on Friday after learning he would face criminal charges for allegedly lying to police, a fall from grace that could tweak the dynamics of the coalition government and weaken its environmental agenda. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS ENERGY SOCIETY)
