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…

Europe’s power grid received another reminder this week of a fundamental problem with solar energy: when the sun disappears, so does the power. Reuters reports, “Europe’s power network operators have lined up back-up generation and grid-balancing measures to offset an expected dip in solar power during ​Wednesday’s eclipse, they said ahead of the event.” As a solar eclipse moved across Europe, solar generation was expected to drop by up to 9.7 gigawatts. Spain and Portugal alone were expected to lose roughly 5 gigawatts, while France prepared for as much as 1.8 gigawatts of solar generation to temporarily disappear. To keep the lights…

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered another win for American energy by rejecting youth climate activists’ attempt to revive a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s pro-energy agenda. The court refused to rehear Lighthiser v. Trump, leaving intact a ruling that the 22 plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge executive orders intended to expand domestic energy production, support American coal, and remove unnecessary permitting barriers. The Daily Caller reports, “The 22 plaintiffs, from Montana, Oregon, Hawaii, California and Florida, filed Lighthiser v. Trump in Montana District Court in May 2025. In October 2025, the Montana court dismissed the youths’ lawsuit for lack of jurisdiction, despite finding…

For years, climate activists demanded that Americans subsidize and surrender their energy system to unreliable solar power while foreign countries flooded the market with artificially cheap components and wiped out American producers. President Trump is putting a stop to it. The President’s new action will restrict imports of foreign polysilicon and solar products, impose new tariffs, and reward companies that move production back to the United States. The White House noted that America’s share of global polysilicon production collapsed from 50 percent in 2005 to less than 2 percent in 2024. As the White House explains: “For decades, foreign governments have dumped…

Climate activists are no longer satisfied with regulating power plants, banning appliances, or restricting the cars Americans drive. Now, some companies want to manipulate the atmosphere itself by spraying sunlight-reflecting particles above the clouds. As POLITICO reports, the growing push has united skeptics on both the right and left who worry that the risks could outweigh any promised benefits. Yet they still call those on the right conspiracy theorists. Climate radicals are driven by narrow objectives: lower temperatures at any cost and make people pay for it. Little attention is paid to what these experiments could mean for public health, agriculture,…