Phyllis Cuttino

Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to restrict efforts by the Department of Defense (DOD) to reduce its dependence on foreign oil. This will hurt the DOD's efforts to protect its budget from oil price shocks, diversify its energy mix and ensure security of supply. This...

The current market for the renewable energy sector in the United States and around the world is a mix of challenge and opportunity. However, the long-term future of clean energy is bright.

According to our recent report, "Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2011 Edition," last year...

We applaud Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and co-sponsors for working to advance renewable power and identifying pathways to help make manufacturers and industry more competitive in the global economy, as proposed in the Clean Energy Standard legislation introduced last week. This bill is a critical step toward a...

In his State of the Union address, President Obama pledged to "double down on a clean energy industry that's never been more promising." Indeed, America's strengths in innovation, entrepreneurship, and advanced manufacturing will help create jobs and build businesses.

The global clean...

In today's competitive global economy, technological innovation is essential to long-term U.S. economic security, and the energy sector should be a particular priority. Failure to extend key U.S. clean energy initiatives would be contrary to U.S. interests.

Expansion in the clean energy industry will fuel economic progress and...

Last spring, Pew broke the unfortunate news that the United States' competitive position in the clean energy sector was at risk. Once the leader in attracting overall investments, we're now third behind China and Germany -- and lag behind various countries on a variety of other key measures....

Nations that fail to innovate lose their economic edge. Militaries that stagnate risk their strategic advantage. That's why pushing clean energy development is such an essential policy for making the United States and its servicemen and women safer, stronger and more successful.

Recognizing the strategic and battlefield challenges...

Against a backdrop of sharp differences on a variety of current public policy issues, new polling by the Pew Clean Energy Program demonstrates strong support from American voters for immediate action on vehicle fuel economy.

The proposed rule to improve fuel efficiency to 54.5 mpg by...

The last seven presidents, starting with Gerald Ford, have decried our dependence on foreign oil. Americans clearly recognize the danger of being dependent on petroleum that comes from areas of the world that are unstable and/or hostile to American interests. But, the dependence of our transportation sector on...

To date, much of the debate over climate change and our energy independence has been limited to the halls of Congress and Sunday morning talk shows. But according to an array of our nation's most distinguished military and security experts, climate change in the years and decades ahead...

All too many issues these days seem to be framed solely in a narrow partisan lens, where one person's gain is inevitably another's loss. The debate over the future of U.S. energy policy has been much the same.

Even as oil continues to threaten beaches across the Gulf,...