In This Issue:

Energy and Climate Debate; Congress; Administration; Department of Agriculture; Department of Commerce; Department of Defense; Department of Interior; Department of the Treasury; Environmental Protection Agency; Nuclear Regulatory Commission; States; International; and Miscellaneous.

Excerpt from Energy and Climate Debate:

Congress is in recess until after Labor Day, but energy issues continued to make news last week.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said August 7 that he is very confident that the Senate will pass an extension of the wind Production Tax Credit before it expires at the end of the year as part of a broad tax extenders package.