The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently rejected a request to increase power generation for a data center located next to a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. The U.S. will need to rapidly scale up power generation to meet future demand from AI and large data centers. This decision shows how challenging this task will be. In...
ACC’s Benji Backer Discusses Conservative Climate Solutions on Right Voices
Given the importance of environmental issues for our climate and our free-enterprise system at large, it is encouraging to see Backer and his team at ACC’s leading in this arena. Through their youthful energy and persistent dedication to promoting conservative solutions to climate change, they are creating a national and international coalition of free-market environmentalists.
BP Bets Big on Giant ‘Green Hydrogen’ Project in Australia
"Remote, sparsely populated Western Australia is a choice spot for green hydrogen development due to abundant sun, high winds and proximity to the ocean for shipping and seawater that developers say could be converted into hydrogen and ammonia."
Climate Startup Removes Carbon From Open Air in Industry First
"Companies pay a premium, sometimes 100 times more than basic credits, for the credits from Climeworks because there is more certainty they remove carbon from the atmosphere. The companies are also willing to pay more to help jump-start the industry, hoping that costs decline rapidly."
Republicans Propose Real Solutions for Energy Sector
"Republicans have real, innovative, free-market solutions to climate change that will grow American jobs and incentivize more clean energy investments here and abroad."
Breathe Free: Capitalism Helps Protect the Environment
“As a country prospers, its citizens are better able to care for the environment and reduce pollutants emitted from industrial growth.”
At Earth Day Climate Summit, Biden Pushes for Sharp Cut to Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
"Mr. Biden used the summit to unveil a new target that calls for U.S. emissions to be 50% to 52% lower in 2030 than levels in 2005, a common baseline for such climate targets."
Socialism Hurts the Environment and Examples are Everywhere in Recent History
Socialist policies are presented as the solution to climate change, but this directly contradicts the history of socialism. Not only is socialism not the solution, but it would cause the United States to reverse much of the progress it has already made to combat climate change.
The Importance of Free Trade and Diverse Supply Chains
Diversified supply chains that are subject to market forces are a win for people and the planet.
Beware of China’s Phony Climate Ambition
President Xi and the CCP are certainly not lacking in ambition. But their true ambition is to promote their communist principles around the world by using economic leverage whenever and wherever they can, including on climate change policy.