Power The Future applauds today’s announcement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) outlining a path forward to revamp the Clean School Bus (CSB) Program. After years of mismanagement and one-size-fits-all mandates, EPA is taking concrete steps to strengthen oversight, expand fuel choice, and ensure better stewardship of taxpayer dollars. As EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin stated: “As was the case with so many of the Biden-era programs, the Clean School Bus program has been a disaster of poor management and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. At the Trump EPA, we have zero tolerance for reckless spending. Today, EPA takes the…

California drivers are paying the highest gas prices in the nation. Thanks to years of extreme energy policies and regulatory failures, the Golden State is increasingly importing gasoline through the Bahamas. This costly, convoluted detour adds thousands of unnecessary miles before the fuel reaches the pump. The New York Post reports, “California is increasingly importing gasoline through the Bahamas — a workaround to a 106-year-old US shipping law that forces domestic fuel shipments onto costly American vessels. More than 40% of the gasoline California imported in November was routed through the Caribbean hub, a record high which comes as drivers in the…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week directing the Department of War to enter into long-term power purchase agreements with America’s coal-fired power plants. The move will strengthen grid reliability and national defense. The order, “Strengthening United States National Defense with America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Power Generation Fleet,”makes clear that a resilient electric grid is the foundation of both military readiness and economic security. Under the directive, the Secretary of War, in coordination with the Department of Energy, will ensure reliable electricity from the U.S. coal fleet to power military bases and other mission-critical facilities. Speaking at the…

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board flagged a troubling episode this week that Power The Future has been scrutinizing over the past year: an attempt to quietly inject climate advocacy into the federal judiciary under the guise of “settled science.” Power The Future last summer called for the Trump administration to investigate this national lawfare campaign by climate activists and submitted FOIA requests into the group. In its editorial, the Board details how the Federal Judicial Center, which trains and advises federal judges, published a revised Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence that framed climate change disputes as comparable to tobacco denial, implicitly casting…

Less than a year after Green Mountain Transit (GMT) proudly rolled out five shiny new electric buses, the entire fleet is now parked outside in the snow, like very expensive lawn ornaments. Why? Because their batteries were recalled as a fire hazard, they cannot be stored in the garage. And because it’s Vermont in winter, they’re too cold to charge anyway. These buses need to be at 41 degrees just to power up, and there is not a day in the 40s in sight in Vermont any time soon.  The result? GMT has been down to its last functioning bus, cutting…