In just the Bush years alone, Washington enacted two major pieces of omnibus energy legislation, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In just the Bush years alone, Washington enacted two major pieces of legislation, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, both of which had major impacts on how energy companies could, and couldn't, do business.

FORBES: Magazine Article

And Canada is still fighting for an exemption from a rule inserted into the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act that bars the American government from buying fuels whose production causes more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional petroleum sources, as producing oil from tar sands does.

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