Editor’s note, 5/3: The event has concluded; see below for the archived videos.

There’s not a better venue for a high-level discussion of energy, jobs and economic growth than Ohio, where energy-driven expectations are soaring – given the growth from shale development in neighboring Pennsylvania and accelerating work in Ohio’s own Utica Shale play. Thus, today’s “Ohio Energy Jobs Summit” is well located.

Hosted by The Hill newspaper and sponsored by the Coalition for American Jobs, the summit has an array of speakers and panelists scheduled including Gov. John Kasich, U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio and API President and CEO Jack Gerard.

Ohio voters certainly have strong expectations for shale exploration and development. A Quinnipiac poll in January showed they overwhelmingly belie... more »

Let's see now. With a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline drawing closer, a new scare study attacking the pipeline's construction, safety and the oil it will bring from Canada, will appear in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

This week the University of Nebraska's John Stansbury released a personal analysis asserting that TransCanada, the Keystone XL's builder, is trying to win support for the project by underplaying its potential environmental hazards. Unfortunately, the analysis appears to be rife with misinformation, faulty comparisons and errors.

TransCanada cites a number of problems in the report. Key points involve the pipeline's potential susceptibility to corrosion (internally and externally), the nature of the oil sands oil it would deliver from Alberta to U.S. refiners and TransCanada's monito... more »

With June's dismal jobs report, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner's question from earlier in the week gains traction: "Where are the jobs?"

Wait a minute ... I know this one - energy!

More important: Does the administration know the answer? Lots of people are asking about its jobs strategy after the June report showed a disappointing gain of just 18,000, well below the 125,000 new positions needed each month just to keep up with population growth. Unemployment rose to 9.2 percent. Since Jan. 20, 2009, some 2.5 million jobs have been lost in the economy. The president:

"We still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do. ... Our economy as a whole isn't producing nearly enough jobs for everyone who's looking. ... The American people expect us to act on every good idea that's out there."

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The administration has a big jobs problem, as June's unemployment numbers show. It also has a big energy problem - as in the energy gap between what powers America now and in the foreseeable future (oil and natural gas) and the more distant future when other technologies will be workable, affordable and national in scale. The good news: Solving the energy problem would help big-time with jobs. Need a bonus? The right energy policies also would help with the other big pain in the president's neck: the deficit.

First, get the right energy policies. During Wednesday's Twitter town hall the president made clear - despite his repeated calls for increased domestic oil production - his goal is reducing U.S. dependency on oil. Not just foreign oil. All oil. Yet, in the same breath he acknowledged... more »

President Obama's Twitter town hall yesterday was pretty neat - the Tweeter-in-Chief fielding questions from the public on a range of issues, including some on energy. The president trumpeted renewable energies while saying America needs to reduce dependence on oil. More on that below. First, some interesting context on renewables, from a live chat held last week by the Energy Department. Dr. Arun Majumdar, director of the department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, responded to the public's emails and Tweets for about 45 minutes. You can check out the video here. Key takeaways on renewables:

• Futuristic technologies, including biofuels, electrofuels and powerful car batteries, remain just that: in the future. "The technologies that are required to make us secure ... all of them... more »