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The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), President Biden’s signature climate bill, passed solely by Democrats, contains lucrative, essentially uncapped…| IER
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), President Biden’s signature climate bill, passed solely by Democrats, contains lucrative, essentially uncapped…| IER
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” represents a sweeping overhaul of U.S. energy policy, aimed at reshaping the federal government’s…| IER
Oil and natural gas industry leaders expect technological advancements, streamlined permitting, and sustained investment to increase production in the U.S.…| IER
The Biden administration announced the lowest number of offshore oil and gas lease sales in history, locking in less supply…| IER
In a concession to automakers and labor unions during an election year, the Biden administration plans to relax elements of…| IER
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright signed a Memorandum of Understanding on energy cooperation and a Memorandum of Cooperation on critical…| IER
On April 30, Ukraine and the United States signed an agreement on developing Ukraine’s natural resources, including rare earth minerals,…| IER
Residential electricity prices increased 25% while Joe Biden was president, and they are continuing to increase. This continuation occurs because… The post Increasing Power Prices Are Being Wrongly Blamed on the Trump Administration appeared first on IER.| IER
President Trump placed a 25% tariff on all medium and heavy-duty trucks imported into the United States starting on November 1. According… The post Trump Puts a 25% Tariff on Trucks appeared first on IER.| IER
A federal judge in Louisiana ruled that President Biden’s withdrawal of large coastal areas from offshore oil and gas drilling… The post Court Rules Biden Overreached His Presidential Authority on Offshore Drilling Ban appeared first on IER.| IER
European Union (E.U.) officials are upholding a first-of-its-kind methane emissions regulation on imported fuels, creating significant uncertainty for the U.S. natural… The post E.U. Methane Rules a Problem for U.S. LNG Producers appeared first on IER.| IER
The Energy Department has taken a 5% interest in both Lithium Americas, a Vancouver, B.C.-based mining company, and its Thacker… The post Trump’s Energy Department Invests 5% in Lithium Assets appeared first on IER.| IER
Currents is a weekly show produced by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) that recaps the latest news from the…| IER
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The following is a comment submitted on behalf of The Institute for Energy Research on the Environmental Protection Agency Proposed…| IER
According to the 2025 Statistical Review of World Energy, global coal demand reached an all-time high of 165.1 exajoules in 2024,…| IER
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting that the average natural gas spot prices will roughly double from 2024 to…| IER
The Biden administration blocked plans for a major copper, nickel and cobalt mine in northern Minnesota that could have helped…| IER
According to Mark Christie, outgoing Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the grid reliability crisis is here as…| IER
A new analysis by the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute has found significant issueswith the Environmental Protection Agency’s…| IER
Fueling The Conversation, Week of July 28th, 2025 Last week, I praised EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for taking on the…| IER
The Trump administration is exempting over 100 chemical manufacturing plants, oil refineries, coal plants, medical device sterilizers, and other companies…| IER
China’s export of rare earth magnets to the United States dropped 58.5% year on year to 246 metric tons in…| IER
Ramaco, the developer of a new coal mine in Wyoming, plans to extract rare earth metals that are crucial for…| IER
President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will cost roughly $1.2 trillion–three times more than the official government forecast. The…| IER
The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Short-Term Energy Outlook expects U.S. electricity consumption to hit a record this year and to…| IER
The Biden-Harris administration’s preferred technologies of wind and solar electrical power require additional high voltage transmission lines as they need…| IER
The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would require most fossil fuel power plants to cut their greenhouse gas…| IER
According to Biden-Harris Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin, the energy transition will cost the world $78 trillion through 2050 ($3 trillion…| IER
A rise in European wholesale natural gas prices over the past several months is expected to encourage more utilities to…| IER
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that interstate natural gas pipeline capacity additions reached a record low in 2022 based…| IER
It was not many years ago that tech companies indicated they would reach net zero carbon in the not-so-distant future.…| IER
Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its power plant rule and, in most cases, has made it more restrictive…| IER
President Biden on the campaign trailed vowed to kill the fossil fuel industry—an industry that is the backbone of the…| IER
