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The Senate version of the "Big Beautiful Bill" took a surprising turn: Instead of allowing wind and solar subsidies to continue forever, the bill kills the subsidies and imposes a new tax on them!

How the Senate can save hundreds of billions of dollars--and our grid--by truly terminating IRA subsidies, by Alex Epstein

Good News for the Texas ERCOT Power Grid: Over 130 New Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants Are Proposed While Cancellations of New "Renewable" Energy Projects Hit All Time High

Doug Sheridan: EIA expects electricity prices to outpace inflation through next year

EIA Data Show U.S. Power Grids Dodged a Bullet With The 2024 Presidential Election

MIT Creates Game-Changing Oil Filter That Could Revolutionize The Refining of U.S. Light Sweet Crude Oil

FTI Consulting: Unlocking Advanced Nuclear Investments in the U.S. Through Strategic De-Risking

Alex Epstein Interviews Representatives Chip Roy and Josh Brecheen About How They Defeated The Lobbyists To Cut Off New Solar and Wind Subsidies in the "Big Beautiful Bill"

The Crude Truth Podcast Interviewed Sarah Falen Tate And Ed Ireland

Intermittent Electricity From Renewables Cannot Support AI And Data Centers

Republicans have one last chance to kill the "Green New Scam" subsidies forever

Congress is Not Repealing The "Green New Scam" As President Trump Promised

Texas Laws Aim To Stabilize ERCOT Grid By Leveling The Playing Field Among All Power Generators

The Inflation Reduction Act Is a Disastrous Policy That Must Be Repealed

Beware of the Texas Dunkelflaute: ERCOT Warns "Slight Risk of Emergency Alert" in July

The first SMR, Small Modular Reactor, in the US is under construction near the Permian Basin, the largest oil field in the US

Startup company, VoltaGrid, has a unique approach to providing power for data centers and oil and gas companies that face shortages from power grids

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: We Are Refilling It Right Now But the SPR Was Physically Damaged By Biden's Rapid Drainage

Electrification of Oil and Gas Operations in Permian Basin Spurs Approval of Texas's First 'Extra-High-Voltage' Transmission Line

Texas House Approves Nuclear Power Incentive Program

The Knives Are Out: NGOs and Dark Money Groups Prepare To Attack Trump’s Energy Deregulation and "Drill Baby Drill"Policies

EPA Chief Lee Zeldin unleashed: He Blasts NY Green Energy Laws As 'Delusional' And A 'Catastrophe'

NY State's Ban on Shale Drilling: Repost from Energy Security and Freedom

ERCOT Is Experiencing A Surge In Power Demand For New Data Centers

EIA expects more wind and solar power and higher electricity prices

Alex AI: A great tool to get "instant answers to your questions on energy, environmental and climate issues-based on the mind and work of Alex Epstein, pro-human philosopher and energy expert"

Jury Verdict Against The Oil and Gas Industry Could Drive Up Energy Costs

The Texas plan to encourage more natural gas power generation is showing cracks

Drilling in Texas Jumps 27% higher in March Over February

Permian Basin Methane Emissions Remain Low Despite Near-Record Production

Good news for oil and gas in President Trump's Tariffs

Tokyo Gas Buys 70% of Chevron's Haynesville Natural Gas Assets

U.S. LNG Exports Are Soaring, Possibly Reviving Old Shale Plays

Texas Oil and Gas Production Hits All Time Records in 2024: 2 Billion Barrels of Crude Oil and 12.62 trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas

Interview with TCU Adjunct Professor Ed Ireland on the Unintended Consequences of Renewable Energy Subsidies

The Tide is Turning Against Climate Activists

Alex Epstein: "28 energy leaders call for eliminating IRA subsidies--even the ones they benefit from"

Biden LNG Ban Would Have Been Permanent If Kamala Harris Had Been Elected, According To Doug Sheridan

The Crude Truth Podcast

Greenpeace found liable for hundreds of millions in damages

Energy Secretary Chris Wright Announces Approval of the Cameron Parish LNG Expansion Project

Texas' natural gas-fired electricity generation neared record high in February 2025 winter storm while wind and solar failed again

The Dune Express: A 42-Mile Long Superhighway for Frac Sand

Energy Secretary Chris Wright Says Africa and Other Underdeveloped Countries Should Be Encouraged to Develop Their Fossil Fuels

Greenpeace is being sued by Energy Transfer for its role in the protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline

Daniel Yergin's thoughts on the energy transition that isn't

David Blackmon's fantastic overview of Secretary Chris Wright's Energy Policy Criteria

Trump Vows to Revive The Constitution Pipeline to Reduce Energy Prices in the Northeast

President Trump's Energy Plan "Unleashing American Energy" Completely Reorients U.S. Energy Policy Including the Elimination of Biden's "Pause" on new LNG Export Facilities

U.S. LNG exports expected to surge in 2025 despite the 2024 illegal ban on permitting new LNG export facilities