Momentum is a crucial factor in success in all walks of life. In sports, a high-performance team builds confidence and enthusiasm, often leading to a string of wins. In politics, legislative victories or a growing list of endorsements pressures others to line up in support of a cause or candidate. And in business, a rising...
President Trump secured a one-year reprieve from Beijing’s threat to shut down global rare-earths exports, which would have interrupted manufacturing of semiconductor chips and magnets essential in military and technology applications. The President quipped that “there’s no roadblock at all” and rare earths “will hopefully disappear from our vocabulary for a little while.” But the President’s brinkmanship...
In recent years, conservatives have proudly championed “all of the above” energy as the most practical path for meeting energy demand, strengthening reliability, and lowering emissions. Yet, during a House hearing regarding recent actions by the Department of Energy, “all of the above” seemed to morph into “best of the above.” Of course, we shouldn’t support every...
Artificial intelligence is booming — and America’s power grid is struggling to keep up. At the World Economic Forum, President Trump recently warned that “We need double the energy we currently have in the United States for AI to be as big as we want to have it.” Elon Musk has echoed similar concerns, predicting...
Recent headlines about potential Japanese investment in Alaska’s LNG development have sparked important conversations about America’s energy future, but the cautious responses from Japan reveal something equally significant: that market realities and the politics of who gets what from whom in business and diplomacy are inseparable. The measured reactions from Japanese industry leaders—ranging from “we...
According to Gallup, Donald Trump enjoys 93% approval among Republicans but just 1% among Democrats—a 92-point gulf that underscores how divided our country has become. In such an environment, bipartisan consensus is rare. And yet last week in Washington, D.C., at Abundance 2025, leaders from across the spectrum gathered to rally around a set of ideals that...
For how many years have we been told that nuclear fusion energy is just 20 or 30 years down the road? It is for the average guy hard to imagine human technology has advanced to the point that we are ready to generate the energy of the Sun and stars in much smaller doses –...
China is the world’s largest generator of wind power and a team of researchers at the heart of the global wind industry has just discovered an inconvenient truth: weather-dependent sources of electricity are a bad bet when the climate is changing. In an article published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, the Beijing and...
Once perched atop the climate movement’s moral high ground, the self-anointed “climate hawks” are now watching their influence dwindle, and nowhere is that retreat more visible than in California. Long the epicenter of progressive climate ambition, the Golden State is now backpedaling. Democrats who once championed aggressive environmental mandates are hitting pause, reworking regulations, and distancing themselves...
News out recently that the Trump Administration is imposing a new copper tariff may have come as a surprise to some, but it shouldn’t have. Regardless of who is in the White House, our access to important minerals like copper, a critical resource for clean energy development, depends on a delicately balanced supply chain that...
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