OBAMA ADMINISTRATION COULD PUSH POWER TRANSMISSION INVESTMENT AND A DASH TO GAS

BY MICHAEL ROSTON ENERGY policy has been at the front and center of American politics, and played a major role in the 2008 presidential election. The candidates, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, skirmished often on the best ways to deal with the cost of energy and global climate change, with Obama making the creation of millions of green jobs a centerpiece of his appeal to American voters. Now as President-elect Obama steps back from the campaign trail, electricity producers are looking hard at how his policy agenda will be adapted to the reality of the ...


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