China is aiming to produce natural gas of around 50 million tons of coal equivalent (TCE) annually by 2020, a government guideline issued last week from the Ministry of Land and Resources and the National Energy Administration said.
The stimulus project will be sponsored by several government departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), State Grid and the National Energy Administration, Wang Sicheng, a senior energy researcher from NDRC, said at a solar industry conference in Beijing last week.
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He got in touch with the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, which since 1994 has run a program to keep some of the estimated 60, 000 Soviet-era weapons scientists from working for terrorists or rogue nations.
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In May, auto industry officials and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Energy Department discussed potential dangers faced by first responders from electrical charges produced by hybrid and electric cars.
Citing the electricity crunch and rising gasoline prices, the Bush administration is trying to build support for its national energy policy, expected to be released Thursday.
"There was a little bit of a fog-of-war atmosphere, " said Jason Bordoff, the senior director of energy and climate affairs at the Obama administration's National Security Council during storm.
Gordon currently is the undersecretary of energy for nuclear security, and served on the National Security Council in the administration of the president's father, President George H.
This was done even though Congress delegated that responsibility solely to another agency, the National Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA), through a separate statute, the Energy Policy Conservation Act (EPCA).
Majority GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate -- and the Republican presidential campaign of Texas Gov. George W. Bush -- have repeatedly slammed the Clinton-Gore administration for what they say is a failure to create a national energy policy aimed at keeping per-gallon prices for gasoline relatively low.
This meeting was organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is co-hosted by the Florida Energy and Climate Commission and the Miami-Dade County Office of Sustainability.
"The next president must be willing to break with the energy policies, not just of the current administration, but the administrations that preceded it, and lead a great national campaign to achieve energy security for America, " McCain said Tuesday.
"The next president must be willing to break with the energy policies, not just of the current administration, but the administrations that preceded it, and lead a great national campaign to achieve energy security for America, " McCain said Wednesday in Springfield, Missouri.
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