1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (163+ words) By Tracy KingYoni Tobin The U.S. defense industrial base today faces a critical minerals challenge—one with serious national security implications. Relying on partners’ reserves to meet U.S. demand, however, is problematic. For reasons of geography alone, even the most…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (500+ words) For all the investments the Trump administration has made in reshoring the nation’s mineral supply chains, its investment in America’s mining schools may prove to be the most important. This initiative could not have come soon enough. Rebuilding – much less…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1192+ words) ...in China, 55% of power is produced by coal and the cost of household electricity is 8 cents per kWh. In the UK, coal’s percentage of electricity was 30% in 2010 but that has declined to less than 1%. Consequently, the cost of electricity for…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (552+ words) Nepal’s request should be rejected unless the U.N. would likewise fund U.S. recovery from a San Andreas earthquake or Cascadia tsunami. The death toll from the Himalayan landslide and subsequent flash flood in Nepal and an adjacent region in China…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (183+ words) By Robert Bradley Jr. Ed. note: This letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and key members of Congress from Consumer Action for a Strong Economy and other free market energy groups is reproduced below. At issue is a legal loophole…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1674+ words) For years, the CO2 Coalition and independent scientists have warned that the U.S Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) rested on a foundation of sand. Its dramatic projections of catastrophe relied heavily on U.N.-sponsored Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) and its successor SSP5-8.5—both extreme predictions…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (487+ words) The scenes from Nepal are heartbreaking. Entire communities were devastated as millions of tons of rock, ice, mud, and water thundered down the Langtang Lirung valley. Hundreds are dead or missing, roads and bridges have been swept away, and the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (184+ words) The Anchorage window and the promise of abundance Venezuela’s heavy oil and the Trump Corollary President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US had secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves through a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (572+ words) Over the past several weeks, the debate over artificial intelligence has centered on whether America can build enough data centers, generate enough electricity, modernize the electric grid, and protect consumers from higher utility bills. Those are important debates. But they…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (418+ words) The private jets will fly climate delegates to the center of the world’s largest source of industrial CO2, to congratulate China on their emissions reduction progress? WASHINGTON – China is mulling a bid to host U.N. climate talks in 2028, two sources…...