Jackie Savitz

There has been a lot of news lately about whether BP will settle all of the legal claims against it stemming from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe two years ago, or whether the company will end up in court. As is typical of most things surrounding the oil spill...

Here's a new item to add to the long list of expenses that are putting our country into deficit spending: cleaning up oil spills. While we keep hearing that companies like BP are on the hook for the costs of cleanup, in truth, much of the cleanup will be paid...

If you were BP, wouldn't you wait for the right time to go back to the U.S. government to ask for more permits to drill? What would seem like a good time to do that? Surely, it wouldn't be when oil is gushing uncontrollably from a BP site on the...

In Washington, DC, there's a phenomenon I call "The Friday Syndrome," and I'm not talking about throngs of people headed to Happy Hour. It's that all too familiar feeling, when you're wrapping up your work for the week, and whammo! An important policy announcement is made by one of the...

If you run a business, like a restaurant or grocery store, you know the importance of writing off your expenses every year. Every steak you buy, for instance, can be written off. But if you tried writing off those steaks at prices 20% higher than what you paid for them,...

In the 7,000-word State of the Union, President Obama seemed to leave out two letters that loomed large in 2010. "B" and "P" -- the initials of the company that destroyed the lives and livelihoods of Gulf of Mexico residents and did immeasurable destruction to Gulf ecosystems.

But BP...

Remember that evil offshore oil deposit that went out of control last summer, blew up a drilling rig and then spewed oil and gas into the gulf of Mexico for months until the government forced the oil companies to finally stop it? Well, surprise! It turns out it wasn't the...

Some call the U.S. Senate "the place good ideas go to die." Those of us that live and breathe energy policy have already witnessed the death of the climate bill this year. Now, we are sitting at the bedside of the Senate's oil spill response bill. And in spite of...

It's a difficult time for America. Millions of Americans cannot find work. Manufacturing plants and factories are being closed and American jobs are being shipped overseas. The federal deficit just reached $1.3 trillion. We borrow more money than we lend, and we buy more than we sell.

We also have...

What if there was a way to fulfill our energy needs without drilling, oil spills or carbon dioxide emissions? What if that fuel was right near our population centers where the energy is most needed? What if harnessing this power could be done in a cleaner, more affordable way than...

I was relaxing at the beach a few weeks ago, and it struck me: thousands of people in the Gulf can't visit the beach this summer because of the oil spill. Beaches are soiled, wildlife is under siege and livelihoods have been ruined.

So when are we going to do...