Each year, Americans spend billions fighting fires that could have been prevented for much less. In 2023 alone, the government spent nearly $4.5 billion on wildfire suppression. Add in the destroyed homes, shut down businesses, and smoke-related health costs, and the total cost soars well into the tens of billions.
A lot of attention has been paid to the role of growing electricity use by data centers; however, most commentary has proceeded without much in the way of thoughtful analysis. A study on drivers of state-level trends in U.S. retail electricity prices from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab begins to fill the gap.
At a recent hearing in Tallahassee, Florida, I testified on the advantages and promise of advanced nuclear technologies, as well as the policies needed to reduce costs and bring small modular reactors online more efficiently.
From bourbon barrels to kitchen chairs, America’s white oaks sustain vital industries and ecosystems of the eastern United States. Yet today, these trees are aging faster than they can regenerate.
This piece was initially published in Latitude Media. Today a partnership coalition including Nvidia, Emerald AI, EPRI, Digital Realty, and PJM announced the world’s first power-flexible AI facility: the 96-megawatt Aurora AI Factory in Manassas, Virginia, slated to open in the first half of 2026. Aurora is the first facility built to a new reference design and certification standard...
That’s where ION Clean Energy comes in. Using its proprietary solvent, ICE-31™, ION’s post-combustion capture system is designed to capture carbon dioxide from the flue gas of natural gas-fired power plants.
That alarmist messaging has never been particularly helpful. It creates an all-or-nothing perspective on climate change, where one side pushes for aggressive mitigation efforts at the expense of all other considerations, while the other dismisses climate risks altogether. It’s time to drop that framing and instead adopt a perspective that puts climate risks in context.
Last month, the Trump Administration’s Interior Department reignited this debate by proposing to rescind this rule, which would remove conservation as an eligible “use” for BLM land. What the rescission proposal gets wrong is the difference between conservation and preservation.
Introduced by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA), the legislation offers targeted reforms to how we review and approve infrastructure and, in doing so, advances three vital goals simultaneously: helping to keep energy affordable, improving reliability, and protecting the environment.
The trade war between the U.S. and China is turning into an MMA-style cage match. President Donald Trumpjust announced 100% tariffs on Chinese-made goods, while President Xi Jinping has slapped a near 100% ban on critical minerals from China into the U.S. Xi’s move makes the heart of the conflict clear: The ultimate winner will be the country that dominates critical minerals mining supply chains and the innovative energy that critical minerals make possible.
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