The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) maintains scaling its $52 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request back to FY22 funding levels, as House Republicans are proposing, would raise costs for consumers, taxpayers, and industry while derailing momentum in “re-shoring” domestic manufacturing capacity. “That would be absolutely catastrophic at this critical moment,” DOE Deputy Secretary…

The Biden administration’s commitment to transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable “green” energies such as electric, nuclear, solar, and wind over the next decade have fostered cart-before-horse disruptions and disconnects across an array of industries. For instance, initiatives adopted over the last four years when Democrats ruled both chambers in Congress in the Bipartisan Infrastructure…

Republicans and industry executives say Biden administration policies are preventing the nation’s oil and gas producers from going full throttle and expanding exports, which they say will lower costs for consumers in the United States and make global energy supplies more secure and cleaner. With Republicans regaining House majority after November’s midterm elections, GOP leadership…