News and Updates

A Historic Day for America's Energy Future

  • February 27, 2009

The National Clean Energy Summit – hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund – was successful in gathering leaders, but what do our energy partners and allies think? Boone Cam has the first reaction to the Summit from partners and allies John Podesta, of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Mike Morris, Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – February 26, 2009

  • February 26, 2009

A sampling of the wind related elements of the recently signed stimulus package. A 3-year Production Tax Credit (PTC) extension through the end of 2012 A new $6 billion Department of Energy renewable energy and transmission loan guarantee program, which should fund around $60 billion in principal amount of guaranteed loans Authority for the Western Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 2.26.09

TCU to Host T. Boone Pickens – Fort Worth Business Press – 2/25/09 Change to Compressed Natural Gas is a Must – Daily Herald – 2/26/09 Pickin’ up New Tricks: Pickens Embraces Electric Vehicles, Predicts $140 Oil by 2011 – Gristmill – 2/25/09 Pickens Touts Energy Plan To CFR Crowd – National Journal’s Under the Continue Reading

You have the Power – Thoughts from the Clean Energy Summit

  • February 25, 2009

Check the Daily Pickens blog regularly for updates about the Army’s activities around the country.  If you organize, participate or attend a Pickens Plan function, be sure to blog about it – and take video or photos – and you might be featured here on Daily Pickens. Clynton, a District Leader from Virginia also attended Continue Reading

Live At The National Clean Energy Summit

Check the Daily Pickens blog regularly for updates about the Army’s activities around the country.  If you organize, participate or attend a Pickens Plan function, be sure to blog about it – and take video or photos – and you might be featured here on Daily Pickens. Mike Johnston a New Energy Army member from Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – February 25, 2009

“We have a significant fuel source for vehicles in natural gas that we need to develop.  We want to start by fueling almost 400,000 18-wheelers immediately.  This would cut imports significantly.” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) during a press teleconference on Feb. 18. Continue Reading

Two Speeches in Washington

Two big speeches in Washington, DC last night. One was on Capitol Hill before a Joint Session of Congress. The other was by T. Boone Pickens talking to the Washington chapter of the Council on Foreign Relations. President Obama, in his speech to the Congress and the nation, made it clear that energy is a Continue Reading

National Clean Energy Summit: We did it!

  • February 24, 2009

At the National Clean Energy Summit – hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund – Boone met with 28 key officials including President Bill Clinton, Speaker Pelosi, former VP Al Gore, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Secretary Chu to talk about the Pickens Plan. Boone says you “saw America at its best Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 2.24.09

Energy & Environment: New Chu Can’t Win – The Washington Times – 2/24/09 Federal Control Urged Over Revamp of Electrical Grid – Houston Chronicle – 2/23/09 Chu Works to Get the Green Cash Flowing – The Atlantic – 2/24/09 Eye Opener: Feb. 23, 2009 – Washington Post – 2/23/09 Solving our Nation’s Energy Predicament – Continue Reading

National Clean Energy Summit

(AP Photo by Lawrence Jackson) In the wake of the National Clean Energy Summit which was held in Washington, DC on Monday February 24, the Chicago Tribune has published an op-ed co-authored by T. Boone Pickens, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) and president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, John Podesta (who Continue Reading