President Trump has unveiled his vision for the Golden Age for America, building a government that works more efficiently for the American people, unleashes the private sector to grow and innovate, and enables our nation to protect and defend its interests worldwide with a Peace through strength approach. This is the vision that a majority...
Low-Energy Fridays: Trade Boosts America’s Energy Security, Tariffs Threaten It
Over the last 50 years, America has seen domestic energy production grow much faster than energy consumption. As a result, we now export more energy than we import. International trade in energy, both imports and exports, has been an important part of the energy industry’s success; however, recently proposed tariffs threaten this achievement. On Feb. 1, the...
White House Says It Has No Legal Basis to Regulate Permitting
The White House will soon publish an interim final rule that scraps permitting rules that have been on the books for almost 50 years, according to a notice posted to a website Wednesday. Once the rule is published in the Federal Register, which could happen as soon as Thursday, the clock will start ticking on a regulation that...
Trump seeks to reshape Asia’s energy supplies with US gas
When President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with his Japanese counterpart this month, talk turned quickly to how Tokyo could help realise a decades-old proposal to unlock gas in Alaska and ship it to U.S. allies in Asia. Trump and his energy tsar Doug Burgum framed the venture as a way for Japan to replace Middle...
What’s Going On With the Grizzly Bear Listing?
After recent petitions from states to delist the bears, the federal government has announced that grizzly bears will remain protected under the ESA. Here’s what’s going on and what the near future looks like for American grizzlies:
Trump administration identifies hundreds of energy projects that could be fast-tracked
The Trump administration has identified hundreds of “emergency” energy projects whose approvals could be fast-tracked. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has updated its website to put hundreds of new projects on its emergency docket under President Trump’s energy emergency declaration. Among those on the list are approval for the construction of a tunnel that would...
U.S. and India Revamp Bilateral Energy, Trade Pacts
A little over two years ago, representatives of President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated a commitment to a “strategic clean energy partnership,” stressing that “climate and clean energy collaboration should promote energy access, affordability, energy justice, while supporting sustainable economic growth and just energy transitions.” And just last September, the Biden and Modi...
Reforms are Coming to the West’s Electric Industry: Keep Your Eye on Consumer Benefits
A revolution in the West's electric power grid is on the horizon, offering consumers potential reliability and economic benefits. However, those benefits will only be realized if we prevent special interests from hijacking the process.
Can outsiders fix Washington? The ambitious mission of DOGE
“I am hopeful that Congress or the SEC can clarify that the agency’s role should not be to serve as substantive arbiters of shareholder proposals in corporate annual meetings — a role properly resting in state corporate law,” said Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of legal policy for the Manhattan Institute. “I’d also like the SEC...
Prioritizing Energy Means Prioritizing Infrastructure
In the early 1980s, I was a bank manager in Kotzebue, Alaska, 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Those were the days of handwritten checks, paper records, and hand-updated documents. When broadband brought high-speed internet to Alaska, all that paper went digital, and residents never looked back—until last month, when an act of nature...








