The Biden administration’s restrictive stance towards domestic mining projects is making the United States dependent on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to former Minnesota State Sen. Tom Bakk. “We need to change the narrative on mining in this country,” Mr. Bakk told the House Ways and Means Committee on July 10. “It’s contrary to…

The cost of President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda could rise to $1.2 trillion, more than triple the original projection, if not accompanied by conservative implementation guidelines, financial analysts say. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 offers large tax and investment credits for the purchase of electric vehicles, home solar panels, heat pumps, energy-efficient home…

It is standard procedure for committees at the start of a new Congressional session to outline their goals for the next two years, especially when a chamber is under new management. With Republicans assuming control of the United States House of Representatives following November’s midterm elections, the newly installed GOP leadership has been doing just…

Government policies are pushing ever more Americans on to the U.S. electric grid even as the climate-change experiment makes the grid increasingly unstable. In August, Massachusetts joined California, New York, and Washington in passing laws to restrict the use of oil and gas in new home construction. Several states have also set dates for banning…

While public schooling in America struggles financially to keep its head above water, President Joe Biden is pumping billions into making U.S. learning institutions energy-efficient and “greener.” Concurrently, the landscape of education faces significant challenges. Critical teacher shortages persist, while 2022 marked historically low student performance in subjects like reading and math. Fanning these flames is…

Commentary Energy analysts and business leaders have been warning North Americans and Europeans about declining energy security for years. Western nations have spent the last decade obsessed with developing renewable energy resources while shutting down their own conventional energy resource development under the assumption that a great transition would happen. Canada shut down the Northern…