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The United States and China to Increase Dialogue on Climate Change
Saturday marked John Kerry’s inaugural visit to China as acting Secretary of State. While North Korea’s most recent episode of belligerence took center stage and dominated the...
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Secretary of Energy Nominee Not Definitive on LNG Export Policy
President Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Energy, Ernest Moniz, received bipartisan support on the Hill on Tuesday and appears likely to sail through the confirmatio...
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Signing Off
After four years, it is bittersweet for me to close this chapter of my professional life. Today is my last day at CNAS and at the helm of the Natural Security program. Startin...
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The State of Play in East Africa’s Energy Sector
Move over, America. East Africa has emerged as the newest potential player in the future geopolitics of energy. From oil in Kenya to natural gas in Mozambique, a region long t...
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Biofuel Inches toward Commercial-Scale Production
Last week, the San Diego-based Sapphire Energy, Inc. announced a commercial partnership with the San Antonio-based Tesoro to refine the company’s algae-based “green” crude oil...
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America Committed to Gulf Security Despite Changing Relationship with Region's Oil, says Gen. Dempsey
America’s relationship with the Middle East’s energy resources is changing as U.S. domestic oil production continues to grow. A combination of hydraulic fracturing, horizontal...
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Reforming Mexico’s Moribund Oil Industry
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the nationalization of Mexico’s oil industry. In a January post on EnergyTrendsInsider.com, I wrote that one of the top energy trends to wa...
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Voices from the Field: What the Frack?
I recently set out to learn more about the process of fracking, with an interest in the risks and the mitigation of risks, as well as the national security implications of Ame...
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Climate Change Tops List of Security Threats in Pacific, says ADM Locklear
Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, likely surprised many when he said that the biggest long-term security challenge in the Pacific is climate c...
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The American Oil Boom and African Security
National security and energy policy experts have long called on the United States to diversify its sources of oil imports. These experts correctly asserted that in a time of l...
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State Department Issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL
On Friday, the State Department published a draft of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone XL, which will inform the president’s decision l...
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Climate Change and the Arab Spring
On Thursday, our friends Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia of the Center for Climate & Security will be at the Center for American Progress to release a new study on “Cl...
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Happy Presidents' Day
Happy Presidents' Day from the Natural Security Blog. We will be taking today off, but we look forward to returning to our regular Natural Security business tomorrow. Photo: M...
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Energy, Security and Cooperation in the South China Sea
Yesterday, CNAS published a new Flashpoints Bulletin that examines the influence global energy trends have in shaping oil and gas development in the South China Sea, and, cons...
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Landsat Satellite Successfully Launched; Continues Earth Monitoring Mission
NASA successfully launched its new Landsat satellite on Monday, ensuring that the U.S. government will continue its ability to keep a close eye on environmental change from sp...
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Much Ado about Nothing: Allaying Concerns about China's Potential Control of Greenland's Rare Earths
On Monday, Quartz published a story about China’s growing foothold in Greenland and the mounting concerns about its quest to produce the semi-autonomous island’s rare earth me...
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Hill Happenings: Assessing North America's Energy Potential
Congress is continuing to give increasing attention to the changing energy landscape. This morning at 10 a.m., the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on “...
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Legislation would expand U.S. LNG Exports to Strategic Partners
There was quite a bit of attention on the Hill yesterday as Senator Chuck Hagel, the president’s nominee to succeed Leon Panetta as defense secretary, met with the Senate Arme...
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North America will continue to Lead Shale Production – for Now
North America’s monopoly over shale gas and tight oil production won’t last forever. But there’s good reason to believe that the rest of the world will be laggards for awhile....
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Read These Now: Energy & Climate Recommendations for the Second Term
As President Obama begins his second term, there is no shortage of recommendations for how he should prioritize and shape his agenda moving forward. Two new publications from ...