Obama talked about the country’s environmental needs for a bit on Monday. Although he was mostly discussing this as justification for his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, it emphasizes the recurring theme of needing to utilize alternative energy sources. However, Obama himself admitted that we have a long way to go before we make truly sufficient [...]

Dan Clifton, head of policy research at Strategas Partners, was on Kudlow & Company the other night with a solid list of stimulus winners and losers. You can view the video here (the one titled Stimulus Winners and Losers). Right off the bat, Clifton said wind and solar were safe calls because of the new [...]

Forbes had a characteristically thoughtful piece last week naming ten things Obama could accomplish with an executive order that would help the market out. Our energy policy is one thing the Bush administration worked hard to influence; Obama could choose to regulate our alternative and standard energy sources. A few specific sectors the author specifically [...]

BusinessWeek this week was entirely dedicated to the Obama transition. Their first article, Getting Down to Business, has a blow by blow predicted agenda that is apparently “the betting around Washington as to how the next months could play out.” The article claims February is supposed to be spent working on economic stimulus and making [...]

Don Dion from Seeking Alpha wrote an excellent post back in November that we happened to find while doing some research today. Just as we often do, Dion cites healthcare and energy as two sectors that may perform well under the Obama administration. In addition to this, his specific selections are fantastic. He notes that [...]

When we were little (back in the olden days) our grandparents had a coal furnace. We loved to see the coalman come and send all that coal down the coal chute. In winter it was even better because we could search around the chute and find eyes for our snowmen. Not so sure what kids [...]

Don’t know how we could have missed this. Holiday season and all. NPR to the rescue! Here’s the new carol from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: “Frosty the Coalman.”

We have Steven Chu, Energy Sec., Lisa Jackson, EPA, Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality, and Carol Browner, energy czar. Not an oil (wo)man in the mix. This is a horse of a different color. They want to cap greenhouse gasses, and move to renewable fuel. What does the energy industry think? There’s a bull’s [...]

In an effort to actively combat global climate change in his administration, Obama named John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco as two of his chief science advisers. Since the two are “leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government action,” it is expected that their ideas in policy form could have serious implications for [...]

Real Money’s Chris Versace had an interesting point on alternative energy today. I can understand why several of the solar stocks are up big today, but if at least one of the driving forces here is how the next presidential administration will be favoring alternative energy programs, then why not LEDs, which use 10% the [...]