Trump Repeals California’s EV Mandate, A Victory for American Energy and Consumer Choice

June 12, 2025

Today marks a victory for common sense and energy freedom. President Trump has officially signed the repeal of California’s radical electric vehicle (EV) mandate, ending a backdoor effort to ban gasoline-powered cars nationwide. For years, Power The Future has been sounding the alarm about these types of state-driven energy mandates being forced on the rest of America. Now, thanks to leadership from President Trump and bipartisan majorities in Congress, that threat is finally dead. As we said in today’s press release: “This wasn’t just a California rule — it was a back-door federal EV mandate that working families didn’t want,” said Daniel…


EPA Moves to Restore American Energy Dominance and Lower Costs

June 12, 2025

In a major win for American energy independence, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced proposals to repeal key Biden-era regulations that have burdened the power sector and raised energy costs. Joined by Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie(R-KY), and other lawmakers, Administrator Zeldin outlined two proposed rollbacks: one targeting greenhouse gas emissions rules under the Clean Air Act, and another reversing amendments to the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).  The EPA is proposing to repeal regulations from the Obama and Biden administrations on power plants, including the 2015 emissions standards for new fossil fuel-fired power plants…


President Trump’s DOI Greenlights Montana Coal Project

June 11, 2025

Last week, President Trump’s Department of the Interior (DOI) approved a major expansion of the Bull Mountains coal mine in Montana, paving the way for the extraction of nearly 60 million tons of coal. This is a significant step towards energy independence and one that aligns with President Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency. The Daily Caller reports, “The plan allows for Signal Peak Energy, LLC to mine 22.8 million tons of coal for federal purposes and 34.5 million tons of adjacent non-federal coal. Around 250 workers are employed at the mine, and the project is expected to benefit the national…


Alaska’s Energy Future Is Back

June 11, 2025

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is exactly the kind of fighter America’s energy workers, and Alaska, need right now. In his latest Fox News op-ed, Administrator Zeldin lays out what we at Power The Future have been saying for years: Alaska is key to America’s energy dominance, and the Trump administration is finally putting it back on track. After years of politically motivated restrictions, Administrator Zeldin is helping lead the charge to unlock Alaska’s vast resources from oil and gas to critical minerals and coal. As he wrote: “President Trump’s vision for us to unleash oil, gas, coal and even critical minerals in Alaska could generate billions…


Federal Focus Returns to Alaska as Burgum Joins Dunleavy on Energy Leadership

June 5, 2025

As the final day of Governor Mike Dunleavy’s Sustainable Energy Conference kicks off, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum continues his extended tour of Alaska—bringing a level of federal engagement that matches the state’s energy significance. At a time when energy security is a top national priority, Alaska’s vast resources have never been more critical. The state holds billions of barrels of recoverable oil and is home to more than 70 known occurrences of rare earth elements, along with essential minerals like graphite, cobalt, and nickel—key components for the data industry’s needs and defense technologies. For too long, Alaska has been…


House to Investigate Biden Climate Orders After PTF Executive Director Testifies to Congress

June 5, 2025

This week, Power The Future’s Founder and Executive Director Daniel Turner testified before Congress in a pivotal hearing titled “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild.” Hosted by the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE), the hearing pulled back the curtain on a dangerous system where billions of taxpayer dollars are funneled into the pockets of politically connected climate activists. Daniel’s testimony detailed how radical environmental groups, with help from unaccountable federal bureaucrats, are turning the green agenda into a billion-dollar cash grab, all under the guise of climate action. During the hearing, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) directly…


The Architect of Biden’s Green Gravy Train Is Now Suing to Keep It Alive

June 3, 2025

At Power The Future, we’ve long warned that the real power behind the Biden-era energy agenda wasn’t the man at the podium, it was the unelected ideologues crafting policy in the shadows. Now we’re watching those same bureaucrats-turned-activists resurface in private practice to cash in and defend the broken system they built. Case in point: Daniel Jacobson, President Biden’s former general counsel at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who spent his time in government making it harder to cancel bad grants. Now, he’s out of government and suing the Trump administration in multiple cases to keep those exact…


Back to the Frontier: 13 Million Acres Reclaimed for American Energy

June 3, 2025

The Biden administration tried to quietly shut down energy development across 13 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. Now, the Trump administration is undoing that damage. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced this week that the Department of the Interior will roll back Biden’s 2024 rule, which imposed extreme restrictions on oil and gas activity in areas that Congress explicitly designated for energy production. The rule created broad “Special Areas” where leasing was essentially banned unless operators could prove a negative, “no adverse effects,” on surface resources. In a statement reported in Fox News, Burgum made clear what was at stake: “The…


Who Shuttered Alaska’s Arctic Future? Biden’s Name Is on the Ban, But He Never Said a Word

May 30, 2025

In March 2023, the Biden administration quietly issued a sweeping ban on future oil and gas leasing in areas of Alaska, without fanfare and without a single word from the President himself. This move carries devastating implications for Alaska’s energy economy and long-term development prospects. This wasn’t a minor procedural action. It was a policy bombshell, sentencing Alaskans to a depressed economy, unable to utilize the resources beneath their feet. It effectively canceled Alaska’s next generation of energy development, locked up lands critical to the state’s future economic growth, and sent a chilling signal to every investor in responsible resource production. “Americans deserve to know which unelected…


Interior Taps Two Prominent Alaskans for Key Roles

May 30, 2025

The Trump administration and Interior Secretary Burgum have hired two proven Alaskan leaders, Drue Pearce and Kara Moriarty, for positions in support of the President’s Executive Order to unleash Alaska’s extraordinary resource potential.  Adding these positions reinforces the importance of Alaska resource development to the President’s commitment to United States energy dominance Pearce, a former Alaska Senate President and Senior Advisor to US Interior Sectary Gale Norton, among the many roles she has played in her decades of work forwarding pro-Alaska policy, will be serving as Counselor to the Assistant Secretary of Lands and Minerals. Moriarty brings a wealth of…