The U.S. has made significant advances in the year since President
Barack Obama outlined an ambitious strategy for improving energy
security, according to a White House progress report out Monday.
Those
goals included reducing oil imports by one-third over the next decade,
expanding oil and natural gas production, promoting clean-energy
deployment and funding energy-efficiency upgrades.
The White House sees solid wins in some signs of
progress, including a 1 million barrel per day reduction in net oil
imports during the last year, along with tightened fuel economy
standards for cars and light trucks.
But Republicans and other critics have fiercely disputed some of the
successes that the administration claims as its own — particularly
increases in domestic production of oil and natural gas.
