The call for “Sputnik moments” far outweighs their actual arrival. But the U.S. might find itself in a Sputnik moment in its race with Communist China over artificial intelligence. A ‘Sputnik moment’ calls for unified national action toward a goal. And with a new President with a strong penchant for industrial policy, it is a...
Repowering closing coal plants with advanced nuclear represents both an opportunity and a challenge. In the previous blog post of this series, Momentum Grows to Repower Retiring Coal Plants with Nuclear, we detailed the tangible economic and energy reliability benefits of coal-to-nuclear projects. Delivered effectively, they can ensure the preservation of jobs, revitalize communities, and provide...
President Donald Trump ordered the creation of a White House council focused on steering the US toward “energy dominance,” with the promise of action as soon as next week. “We have more energy than any other country, and now we are unleashing it,” Trump said Friday in the Oval Office as he signed an executive order commissioning...
The U.S. paper and pulp industry is lobbying President Donald Trump’s administration to ask the EU to declare the United States deforestation-free, a step that could make it easier for exporters to meet the bloc’s new environmental rules. From December, the European Union’s anti-deforestation policy will ban imports of commodities linked to forest destruction. Brussels already delayed the...
The electric grid has been described as the world’s largest machine. I’d like for you to take a moment to consider the generation and delivery of an electron to your home or business and how incredible today’s electric grid truly is. An electron is created by heat, inversion or friction at a power plant. That...
Renewable energy generation is surging across many of the country’s red-leaning states, positioning some to outpace their bluer peers in a national drive toward grid decarbonization. Their emerging leadership in the area in some ways defies the political battle lines that have been drawn on energy in recent years. On the federal level, Democrats have...
U.S. senators reintroduced a bipartisan bill on Thursday that would allow nationwide sales of gasoline with a higher blend of ethanol year-round, a plan that has the support of a leading oil trade group. Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican from Nebraska, introduced the bill with senators including Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, and said...
A coalition of Texas energy and industrial organizations urged the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to swiftly grant the state primacy over carbon capture and storage (CCS) permitting. The groups argue that this shift would stimulate private investment and accelerate the deployment of carbon capture technology. In a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin,...
President Donald J. Trump recently announced tariffs on imports, which will cover energy commodities like oil and gas to a certain extent. At a glance, this policy may appear to advance “energy independence,” an agenda Trump favored on the campaign trail—but it’s not quite so simple. Defenders of tariffs on energy would point out that they will reduce...
Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, led a hearing on advancing carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies, and examining the implementation of the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies Act or USE IT Act. During the hearing, Chairman Capito questioned Kevin Connors, Assistant Director for Regulatory...
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