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Daily Dose:  July 19, 2019

US Water Withdrawals:  How does America use its water?
Daily Dose:  July 18, 2019

Top-3 Countries With Largest Coal Reserves
Daily Dose - July 17, 2019

Market Share of Photovoltaic Cells
Daily Dose - July 16, 2019

Inside the Beltway - Congressional activities related to energy
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Senate, Energy Committee:
  • The Launching Energy Advancement through Innovations in Natural Gas (LEADING) Act 
  • The Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (S.903):  establishes funding for advanced nuclear technologies RD&D 
  • The Enhancing Fossil Fuel Energy Carbon Technology (EFFECT) Act (S.1201):  establishes funding that supports carbon capture, carbon storage, carbon utilization, and carbon removal technologies
  • Panel hearing to examine long-term management options for the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program. 

House, Science Committee:
  • One panel will examine EPA science 
  • Two panels on agency scientific integrity 
  • One panel on the future security of the electric grid 
  • A select climate committee looks at heavy-duty vehicles
Daily Dose - July 15, 2019

Energy Matters Addendum
Fossil Fuels
- Chevron reports that 794,000 gallons (about 3 million liters) of oil and water is leaking out of the ground where it uses steam injection to extract oil in the large Cymric Oil Field about 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of Bakersfield. The steam softens the thick crude so it can flow more readily and is a different process from fracking, which breaks up underground layers of rock. About 70% of the fluid is water, Chevron said, meaning about 240,000 gallons (908,472 liters) of the mixture is oil.
Low-Carbon Energy
- Storage capacity is projected to increase substantially each year for the next five years.
 
Policy
Britain is sending a second warship to the Gulf and raising the alert level in the oil-rich region as tensions spike after Iranian gunboats threatened a UK supertanker.  The two warships are the most advanced in Britain's fleet.  President Trump:  "Iran better be careful. They're treading on very dangerous territory. Iran, if you're listening, you better be careful." Alarmed that Trump's hawkish stance could lead to war, the Democratic-led House of Representatives voted to bar funding for military operations against Iran unless they are in self-defense or explicitly authorized by Congress.
 
​Climate
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The Environmental Protection Agency will allow farmers to resume broad use of a pesticide - sulfoxaflor a bug- and weed-killer - that had been banned because the toxins harm bees. 
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Jack Voltaic Cyber-Security Wargame - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Background:  The Jack Voltaic 2.0 Cyber Research Project - July, 2018, Houston, Texas. The event was described as a “bottom-up approach to critical infrastructure resilience,” where the City of Houston, in partnership with AECOM and the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) gathered with critical infrastructure partners to study cybersecurity preparedness gaps.  The following is the Executive Summary from that event.
  1. Current emergency response plans are inadequate for a successful cyber-attack that disrupts the electricity grid because most systems rely on electricity to access and/or transmit information. 
  2. The US military and affiliated agencies (National Guard, etc.) are overly reliant upon civil and commercial infrastructure. The military must develop ways to collaborate with the National Guard, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Military Reserve and the Department of Energy to develop an operational risk-management framework that can function without power. 
  3. Local National Guard’s are essential to physical security and development of cybersecurity capabilities and their plans should be communicated with state military departments. Also, the Department of Defense should maintain an inventory of existing and emerging Guard and Reserve cyber capabilities. 
  4. Individual states should play a greater role in helping local communities prepare a response/resiliency plan.  Best practices and lessons learned from the financial sector’s Financial Systemic Analysis and Resilience Center should be leveraged. 
  5. Police, policy and legal authorities at federal and state levels have not sufficiently empowered cities to respond to cyber incidents. If there was a crisis or catastrophe, local agencies will not be able to communicate and won't be able to get permission or coordination guidance. Joint military organizations need to explore ways of offering mutual assistance that are not dependent on electricity. 
  6. The private sector is extremely vulnerable because it is almost entirely dependent on power and has essentially no back-up alternatives. The private sector should also identify “certified defenders” who will work under government authorization to be on-call for and ready to respond to a successful cyber attack.

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