Kate Brandt

Could the next Albert Einstein be working on the world’s most powerful battery just outside Chicago? As of Friday, this is entirely possible. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D), and Chicago…

Last month entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives, and government officials gathered for the third annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit to discuss the future of energy technology. ARPA-E (which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency…

With the national average for a gallon of unleaded gasoline at $3.68 over the weekend, President Barack Obama used his weekly radio address to reiterate to Americans that “there are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can’t just drill…

On Thursday, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu detailed President Obama's $27.2 billion fiscal year 2013 budget request in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The budget for fiscal year 2013 proposes $27.2 billion for…

In the U.S. it is almost unthinkable for a politician of any political stripe to discuss the topic of energy without mentioning the desire of Americans to get more energy at home and less energy from foreign sources. In this year’s State of the…

On Tuesday, House Republicans advanced legislation that would strip President Barack Obama’s power to block the the current proposal for the TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline and instead give authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory…

In January the Obama administration announced that, starting August 1, women will not have to pay out-of-pocket for birth control. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, this year many insurance plans will be required to fully cover contraception…

The dawn of 2012 ushered in the start of a new European Union emissions trading scheme (ETS) for jet fuels, and on Monday the next step was taken to bring airlines into compliance. Emissions from all domestic and international flights that arrive at…

China has never been shy about forging alliances with unpopular regimes that have resources that it needs to fuel its breakneck pace of growth. Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Cuba are just a few of the nations that China has formed resource alliances…

During Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address President Barack Obama put energy front and center in his vision of an America built to last. The president stated his support for drilling more oil at home, new fracking technology that is…

A major effort to transfer 1.3m gallons of fuel from a Russian tanker to Nome, Alaska, was finally completed on Thursday. The ice-bound city, located just south of the Arctic Circle, faced a major fuel shortage after missing its last pre-winter fuel…