Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced a proposal to repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding, a key legal basis for more than $1 trillion in federal climate regulations—including the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate. …
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200 Actions the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Have Taken to Unleash Our Energy Potential
Building on a pledge to prioritize domestic energy production, the administration and congressional leadership have enacted 200 measures to expand output and dismantle regulatory barriers. These actions are positioned as part of a larger plan to secure energy abundance, lower costs for consumers, and drive economic growth for America. …
Poll Shows That Americans Want Energy Abundance, Not Climate Catastrophism
As Congress works through the One Big Beautiful Bill this week, the best argument for repealing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) energy subsidies is simple: it’s what voters want. …
DOE Secretary Uses Emergency Powers to Keep Coal Plant Operating in Michigan
The Department of Energy is invoking emergency powers to keep a decades-old coal-fired power plant in Michigan online to avoid power outages and grid reliability issues as peak power demand arrives this summer. …
Fueling the Conversation
President Biden, green groups, D.C. think tanks, and international organizations enacted a set of policies that prioritized climate goals over everything else. These policies were rejected because they led to runaway inflation, higher energy and electricity prices, and restrictions on our ability to access our domestic natural resources. …
Trump EPA Announces Biggest Deregulation Effort in U.S. History
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA Administrator, has unleashed a barrage of deregulatory actions designed to make it easier to make and build things in the United States, with less red tape and costs for consumers. …
DOE Secretary Wright: Coal is Critical to Meeting Energy Demand
President Trump and his Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, want U.S. utilities to continue operating coal plants to help meet growing electricity demand, avoid blackouts, and keep the United States from deindustrializing as Germany has done with its energy transition to wind and solar power. …
Global Coal Use Hits Another Historic Record in 2024
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), coal consumption hit another new record last year—8.77 billion metric tons—due to soaring coal use by China and India. Global coal demand is expected to grow by 1% in 2024—down from 2.4% growth in 2023. …
Duke Extends the Life of Its Largest Coal Plant
Duke Energy Corp. plans to extend the life of its largest coal-fired power plant for 3 years, pushing aside its climate goal to shutter all facilities that burn coal by 2035. Duke says its emission-reduction goals are not changed but are not linear and its resource plans are not final decisions as they are revised regularly. Duke’s power …
The Supreme Court Will Not Stay the EPA Power Plant Rule While It Goes through the Lower Courts
The Supreme Court has decided not to stay the EPA’s “power plant rule” that requires the use of an expensive and non-commercial technology while lower courts deliberate the rule and its legality. …
