Nevertheless, a mild season doesn’t mean our forests are healthy or that the risk has disappeared. It simply means we were lucky. And luck is not a forest management plan.
Articles by Nick Loris
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The PERMIT Act Will Help Meet America’s Growing Energy Needs
Introduced by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), the legislation offers targeted reforms to how we review and approve infrastructure and, in doing so, advances three vital goals simultaneously: helping to keep energy affordable, improving reliability, and protecting the environment.
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Nobel Prize Winners Show Why Innovation is Essential for People and the Planet
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on innovation-driven economic growth. Innovation spurs technological advancements that improve human flourishing and quality of life. It is also essential for a cleaner environment. As we remind policymakers in the U.S. and abroad, free economies are clean economies.
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The Left’s Energy Amnesia
Energy price politics is not a new game in Washington. Typically, politicians blame the opposing side for higher gas prices. These days, higher prices are at the meter as electricity rates have more than doubled the inflation rate over the past year.
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Reforming Radiation Standards to Unlock Nuclear Energy’s Full Potential
Executive Order 14300 explicitly calls for a re-evaluation of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model and the As Low As Reasonably Achievable principle (ALARA). These two frameworks have guided nuclear regulation for decades. While these models may have been defensible when first adopted, they have hardened into regulatory doctrines that no longer align with the best available science, economic realities, or the nation’s strategic energy goals.
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How the SPEED Act Seizes the Moment on Permitting Reform
There has been bipartisan support for improving permitting processes, and both Republican and Democratic administrations have acknowledged the need to modernize NEPA. At a recent House Natural Resources Committee hearing, I testified to explain how narrowing the scope of environmental reviews and reining in the delays imposed by protracted litigation would help deliver more affordable power, reliable infrastructure, and a healthier environment.
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The Need for SPEED: Why Permitting Reform is Essential to Our Economic Progress and Environmental Ambitions
In the need to innovate, invest, and build for a cleaner, more prosperous future, time is far from a neutral variable. It can be a competitive advantage or a competitive disadvantage, depending on what you’re building and where you’re building it. Permitting reform will create more opportunities where investing and building in America is a competitive advantage, enabling us to meet our energy and infrastructure needs, as well as our environmental ambitions.
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It’s Time to End Energy Favoritism
Democrats and Republicans need to lower their weapons and refrain from engaging in continued resource battles.
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Taking Action to Reduce Wildfire Risk
Whatever you think the costs of wildfires are – to your community, your country, or the planet- it is very likely an underestimate.
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Why Extending Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts Is a Win for the Economy and the Environment
Trump-era tax cuts and full expensing offer a pro-growth alternative to IRA subsidies, boosting innovation, ensuring business certainty, and advancing clean energy.