"The United States desperately needs to hasten the development of supply chains for critical minerals that don’t involve China and Chinese companies for both commercial and national security interests. Unfortunately, current policies, including regulations from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), are doing exactly the opposite. They are hurting demand for electric vehicles, the very products that will incentivize the development of these supply chains. Instead, Washington needs to unleash the power of the US market by removing barriers to accessing capital, fast-tracking manufacturing, providing high-level diplomatic support, and promoting domestic demand."
Don’t Make LNG Exports the Next Keystone XL
LNG exports provide several economic, environmental, and national security benefits.
A 2017 law comes back to haunt startups in 2024
"How it used to work: If a company had $1.5 million in revenue and $1 million in expenses (let's say it was entirely domestic R&D), it would pay taxes on its $500,000 profit.
How it works now: In the same example, the company would have to amortize the $1 million in expenses over five years, so it would deduct only $200,000 (one fifth) and would pay taxes on $1.3 million in profit."
R&D Firms to Congress: Don’t Hang us Out to Dry with Apocalyptic Taxes
Our nation has long looked to innovators to carry breakthroughs forward. Our innovators now look to Congress to ensure we don’t backslide on them.
Reforms to Bond Market Could Unleash Affordable Energy Nationwide
Reducing financial barriers to investment, as the American Infrastructure Bond Act intends to do, is a win for consumers and industry.
C3 Solutions and Center-Right Leaders Unveil Free-market, Pro-growth Investment Principles Related to ESG
Leaders encourage Congress to defend market-informed investment decisions
Bipartisan Tax Agreement with Immediate Expensing Will Kickstart Innovation
Expensing is a truly win-win policy and the longer it remains lapsed, the more the American economy, U.S. competitiveness, and the environment suffer.
What China’s Ban on Rare Earths Processing Technology Exports Means
"The rollout of major export restrictions for graphite, gallium, germanium, rare earth extraction, and separation technologies in less than one year should be a powerful signal to U.S. policymakers that although they are late to the critical minerals game, there is a significant need to both build domestic capabilities and leverage international cooperation to facilitate rapid sourcing and developing of processing capacity."
America Has Plenty of Natural Gas. So Why Is New England Left Out in the Cold?
"The tankers of cheap gas loaded along the Gulf Coast aren’t allowed to deliver to Everett or anywhere else in the U.S. due to the Jones Act, a 1920 law meant to preserve the domestic shipbuilding industry that restricts domestic shipping routes to U.S.-built and American-crewed vessels."
How Free Trade Helps the Environment
Rather than increasing costs for clean technologies and adding artificial barriers for emerging markets to access industrialized ones, leaders should turn to free trade to meet the world’s economic, energy, and climate needs.