Last August, Power The Future released a roadmap warning that America was heading toward an electricity affordability crisis unless policymakers stopped retiring reliable power and started rebuilding the firm generation needed to keep the lights on. Electricity rates kept rising, but now relief is on the way. The report’s recommendations were direct: Last week, the Trump administration moved on all four in one sweep. The Department of Energy announced a sweeping coal package designed to strengthen grid reliability, support American coal workers, and protect families from rising electricity costs. The announcement included $500 million in Defense Production Act funding, support for 13 coal plants,…

House Republicans are now asking the question every community facing anti-data center pressure deserves to have answered: who is really behind this campaign? Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman John Joyce, and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta called on the Trump administration and FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate whether foreign adversaries, including China-linked interests, are helping fuel opposition to American data center development. According to Politico, their letter cites Power The Future’s recent report, Manufactured Outrage, which exposed how national environmental organizations, billionaire-backed donor networks, and professional activist groups are working to…

This week, President Trump announced $700 million in new funding to strengthen America’s coal industry and energy infrastructure. The plan includes support for 13 existing coal plants across many states, funding for new coal facilities in Alaska and West Virginia, a coal plant restart in Maryland, and a new coal export terminal in Oakland, California. CBS News reports, “Today, we’re taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal,” Mr. Trump said from the Oval Office, where he announced the new funding initiative.  “If you…

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering Suncor v. Boulder, a case that centers on whether local governments can pursue state-law claims seeking damages from oil companies for the global effects of “climate change.” This week, House Republicans, led by Majority Leader Steve Scalise, are urging the Court to reject efforts by local governments to use state courts to impose large financial penalties on energy producers. These climate lawsuits aim to achieve through litigation what activists have repeatedly failed to accomplish. Fox News reports, The GOP lawmakers have characterized Boulder County’s lawsuit as a “dangerous overreach” that could leave major fossil fuel…

A new report from the Odessa American makes clear what America’s energy workers already know: the Permian Basin is one of the most important forces in the global energy system. Waco economist Ray Perryman explained that advanced economies are seeing “explosive demand for energy” because of AI infrastructure, while emerging nations will need enormous amounts of power as they continue to develop and lift people out of poverty. That demand will be met by production, infrastructure, investment, and innovation. That is where the Permian Basin comes in. Odessa oilman Kirk Edwards put it plainly: “The Permian Basin sits at the center of that…

The climate movement has never had a money problem. It has had a reality problem. According to Bloomberg, the Bezos Earth Fund is falling far behind its pledge to spend $10 billion on climate causes by 2030. With just four years left, the fund has allocated only 28 percent of that promised total, leaving more than $7 billion still unspent. That is a remarkable slowdown from one of the largest climate philanthropy efforts in the world. It is also a sign that the green agenda is running into the same problem everywhere: big promises, weak results, and growing skepticism from the…

Louisiana lawmakers are moving to protect their state’s energy industry from climate lawfare, but a last-minute amendment threatens to preserve a major loophole for trial lawyers and activists seeking to punish oil and gas companies through the courts. According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, the Louisiana State Senate passed an amendment to the proposed Louisiana Energy Protection Act that would maintain a carveout for existing coastal litigation. The bill was designed to preempt lawsuits based on alleged climate-change-related damages and give businesses legal certainty in one of America’s most important energy states. Louisiana is a critical hub for natural gas,…

For more than a decade, Americans were told that climate catastrophe was not just possible, but inevitable. The media ran with the most extreme projections. Politicians used them to justify sweeping restrictions on American energy. Activists demanded massive changes to the economy, transportation, housing, and daily life. Anyone who questioned the assumptions behind the alarmism was dismissed as unserious or worse. Now, even The New York Times is acknowledging that one of the climate movement’s favorite doomsday scenarios may have gone too far. According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, the Times addressed the rollback of Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5,…

For years, the left treated high energy prices as the cost of doing business. Under President Biden, Americans were told that climate action required sacrifice. Gas prices surged, federal oil and gas leasing was restricted, EV mandates were pushed, gas stove bans became serious policy, and the American people were expected to accept higher costs in the name of the green agenda. Now, with instability in the Middle East putting pressure on global oil markets, the same Democrats who cheered costly climate policies are suddenly pretending to be champions of affordable energy. Power The Future Founder and Executive Director Daniel…

The federal government may finally be taking steps to address one of the biggest obstacles to American energy development: permitting delays. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has proposed reforms to streamline approvals for natural gas pipeline projects, potentially speeding up projects that have long been delayed by regulatory bottlenecks. The proposal would broaden the types of projects eligible for blanket certificates, allowing certain interstate natural gas facilities to proceed without lengthy, case-by-case approvals from FERC. The commission is also proposing higher cost limits for projects that qualify under blanket authorization and broader updates to reduce delays in pipeline construction and upgrades….