Energy security is one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation today and requires solutions and involvement from all sectors of society. Below are articles from non-governmental, activist, industry, and academic experts offering ideas on energy security.

• Advancing Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles Via Utility Industry Battery Acquisition and Leasing
  By Peter Fox-Penner, Dean Murphy, Mariko Geronimo and Matthew McCaffree, The Brattle Group
• Ensuring a Continued Policy for Promoting Renewable Energy U.S. Carbon Cap-And-Trade and Renewable Energy Certificates: A Preliminary Discussion
  By Richard Saines, Baker & McKenzie, REIL Network
       Debra Jacobson, The George Washington University Law School, REIL Network
• Helping Consumers Cope
  By Branko Terzic
  Global & US Regulatory Policy Leader, Energy & Resources, Deloitte Services LP
• Biofuels, Energy Security, and Global Warming Policy Interactions
  By Dr. Wallace E. Tyner
  Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
• A Fresh Approach to US Energy Security and Alternative Fuels:
  The Western Hemisphere and the Ethanol Option
  By Annette Hester
  Research Associate and Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation,
  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Oil Independence: Realistic Goal or Empty Slogan?
  By David L. Greene and Paul N. Leiby
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• New Hope for Haiti: A Bioenergy Solution
  By Johanna Mendelson Forman
  Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• A Response to Energy Policy in the State of the Union
  By Dr. Lee Lynd
  Professor of Engineering & Adjunct Professor of Biology
  Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
• The Case for a Comprehensive, Globally-Focused Energy Policy
  By Rebecca Brown
  Program Manager, Citizens for Global Solutions
• Energy Security: A New Mission for NATO
  By David L. Goldwyn
  President, Goldwyn International Strategies
• Energy Timeline
  By Robert S. Preston
  Portfolio Manager PIA Program, Merrill Lynch
• Energy Policy in an Uncertain World Threatened by Dangerous Climate Change
  By Gary Yohe
  Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University
• The Heat Is On
  By Deron Lovaas
  Natural Resources Defense Council

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