Can We Get an Energy Plan, Please? By Stephen Lacey, Editor April 13, 2011

The last month was a big one for energy. Oil prices reached two-and-a-half year highs; Japan dealt with a nuclear power plant on the verge of a meltdown; the one-year anniversary of the Gulf Oil disaster neared; and the International Energy Agency, historically known as an interest group for oil producing nations, issued a report calling a more aggressive build-out of clean energy to offset declining oil production and climate change.

And what did policy makers in Washington, DC do?

The House of Representatives passed a bill stripping the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions; Republicans in the House and the Senate crafted legislation that would abandon a 2007 law – signed by then-President Bush and supported by lightbulb manufacturers – that created better efficiency standards for lightbulbs through 2014; and in a final dig to Democrats, Republicansrepealed the Greening the Capitol Initiative and brought back Styrofoam cups and plastic utensils to the cafeteria in place of biodegradable ones.

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