Congressman August Pfluger (R-TX) is throwing his support behind Rep. Harriet Hageman’s (R-WY) fight to protect American energy producers from costly climate lawsuits. In a new op-ed, Pfluger makes the case for Hageman’s Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026, which he has co-sponsored to prevent states from using climate lawsuits and so-called “superfund” laws to punish energy companies for conduct that was legal and regulated at the time. Hageman introduced the legislation to end a growing patchwork of state-level climate liability schemes and reaffirm federal authority over national energy policy. Pfluger’s op-ed underscores exactly why that effort is needed. As Pfluger explains,…

Last week, the X’s Safety team uncovered a massive bot farm of roughly 200,000 suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations. Among them were hundreds of accounts pushing messages aimed at the American debate over AI and energy. This included claims that data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the power grid. Some even circulated AI-generated cartoons portraying data-center operators as getting rich at American families’ expense. The findings add another layer to what Power The Future has already documented. In our report, Manufactured Outrage: How National Environmental Activists Are Spending Millions to Elect Democrats, Block Data Centers, and…

Just when we thought California had run out of things to regulate, state officials have found a new target: the tires on your car. The California Energy Commission has approved the nation’s first efficiency standards for replacement tires sold for passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks. Beginning in 2029, replacement tires sold in the state must meet new government requirements claiming more energy efficiency. For California drivers, this means yet another layer of government mandates affecting the products they can buy. Tires are not one-size-fits-all. Drivers choose them based on price, durability, weather, and vehicle type. Yet California is moving forward…

A bombshell new investigation from Natalie Winters raises serious questions about former Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s relationship with organizations tied to the Chinese Communist Party, and what followed when he took control of America’s Department of Energy. Winters uncovered official Chinese records listing Chu as an Overseas Honorary President of the Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA) from 1999 to 2003. WRSA’s own records say the organization operated under the CCP Central Secretariat and the Central United Front Work Department, part of what U.S. officials have described as Beijing’s political-warfare apparatus. As Winters reports: “Before Steven Chu oversaw America’s national laboratories and nuclear-weapons…

For years, European leaders lectured the United States about climate policy. Now, faced with high energy prices, struggling industries, and frustrated consumers, many of those same countries are quietly changing course. The European Union is looking to ease parts of its carbon-pricing system and has backed away from effectively banning new gasoline-powered cars after 2035. The United Kingdom is reconsidering electric-vehicle mandates and weighing new oil production in the North Sea. Canada has scrapped its unpopular consumer carbon tax while supporting new oil and natural gas infrastructure. The reason is increasingly difficult to ignore: energy policy has economic consequences. Germany…

For years, Washington’s climate bureaucracy treated worst-case climate scenarios as destiny and used them to justify costly regulations and questionable spending. The Trump administration is putting an end to it. The Daily Wire reports that the White House is retiring the Biden-era Fifth National Climate Assessment and directing federal agencies not to use implausible worst-case climate projections as the baseline for regulations, funding, or infrastructure decisions. Agencies relying on such projections will also have to disclose that they came from extreme scenarios. Dr. Matthew Wielicki, director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, told The Daily Wire that many of these high-emissions…

Electric vehicles are often sold as the future of transportation, but a growing number of recalls are raising serious questions about whether drivers can count on them. The Daily Caller reports, “Forget the slow burn of traffic — electric vehicles are catching fire amid a surge in recalls over models that can burst into flames even while parked. Sarah Lammersen’s plug-in hybrid Jeep Wrangler caught fire while her daughter drove it, days after a recall of a partially electric car model, according to The Washington Post. Jeep alone recalled more than 200,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles in November 2025, over a risk that their batteries could catch…

PTF wants to show the faces of those at the bottom of our list and the worst for energy workers. These individuals have demanded increased environmental standards for American Energy but hide behind labels ‘green’ and ‘clean’, despite the environmental damages these ‘green projects’ themselves create.   The following Senators have also landed themselves at the very bottom of PTF’s scorecard for pushing green failure.  The countless environmental effects of their efforts, including wildlife impacts and altered habitats, prove it’s not about protecting the environment; it’s about the public knowing they are “green,” and “green” leads to blind support.  As elections grow…

Congress may be in recess, but now is the time to recognize legislators who have continued to fight for energy dominance and watch those who don’t.  Everyone deserves to know where our lawmakers stand. Power The Future’s Legislator Scorecard differentiates current energy advocates from ‘climate crusaders’.  Our scorecard tracks the most influential energy votes in Congress and lets constituents see the faces behind them.    The following five members of the House have done an exceptional job fighting for the affordable energy of all Americans.  Power the Future has calculated energy scores that have placed these legislators at the front of the pack. In…