In a historic 2024 election that returned Donald Trump to the White House, Americans decisively voiced their preference for a positive, people-first energy agenda prioritizing security, reliability, and affordability. Voting with their ballots and wallets, Americans rejected the left’s depressingly pessimistic and costly energy deprivation agenda that prioritizes carbon emissions over their wellbeing. In an...
The Biden administration on Tuesday released a roadmap for plans to triple U.S. nuclear capacity by the middle of the century. The plan sets a goal of 200 gigawatts of new capacity by 2050, more than three times the 2020 capacity. This will require the development of multiple new power sources, including large and small modular plants,...
While the election is now behind us, the future of the long-awaited Farm Bill remains in question. Farmers and ranchers have been waiting for the reauthorization of the bill for more than a year, since the last bill expired in September 2023. While there is a ready, bipartisan-supported version released by House Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson, it remains...
The Department of the Interior has set the stage for a controversial land trade that would allow a road to be built through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. In a draft environmental impact statement released on Thursday, the department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommended a multi-part swap of land between the federal government and a for-profit...
Brian Fitzsimons, CEO of GridUnity, doesn’t think his company alone can solve the grid interconnection backlog that’s holding back the U.S. energy transition. But he’s sure that its software is a lot better than the combination of paper, spreadsheets, and email that most grid operators use right now. In fact, he claims his firm’s software can shave about a year or more from the...
Pipeline operator DT Midstream (DTM.N), opens new tab said on Tuesday it would acquire three natural gas transmission pipelines from ONEOK (OKE.N), opens new tab for $1.2 billion in cash, boosting its presence in the Midwest market amid rapid consolidation in the U.S. industry. Increased consolidation among oil and gas producers and hurdles in getting new energy infrastructure approved...
The conversations surrounding the controversial restarting of the Palisades Nuclear power plant have started back up. Wednesday night, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission hosted a public meeting regarding the restart at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor. Many members of the public came out for the third time in recent months, some in support the Palisades....
Given President-elect Donald J. Trump’s critical rhetoric about environmental regulation, it is natural to wonder what the future of pollution reduction will look like under his next presidential term, as regulations are the primary policy mechanism by which air pollution is managed in the United States. Although it would be understandable to assume that pollution...
Today, Senator Joe Manchin III (I-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed granting West Virginia the authority to oversee and administer the Class VI well...
Concerns that Europe is facing a natural gas supply crunch this winter are overblown, with the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market already stepping up to avoid any shortfall, albeit at higher prices. European natural gas prices climbed to the highest level in two years last week, with the benchmark front-month contract at the Dutch TTF...
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