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Conservation
Energy developers, foresters, and farmers alike are all too familiar with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). At the USDA, NEPA has stifled progress through lengthy environmental impact statements and redundant environmental assessments for projects ranging from farmland conservation to forest management and livestock grazing.
Policy
If we want to lead the world in reducing emissions while securing economic growth and energy security, we must replace the stick with the carrot. Overregulation, top-down mandates, and punitive taxes may win headlines, but they rarely produce scalable, lasting results.
Energy
If you want evidence of artificial intelligence’s lifesaving potential, log out of ChatGPT and, instead, check out what’s happening in Virginia Tech’s Civil and Environmental Engineering program. Researchers there are building a model that uses deep learning to predict where flooding from hurricanes will occur.
Conservation
Whatever you think the costs of wildfires are – to your community, your country, or the planet- it is very likely an underestimate.
Conservation
Approximately 14.6 million travelers from other countries visit America’s national parks annually. Now, the U.S. Department of the Interior is proposing a surcharge so that these visitors pay a little extra for park entrance fees.
Infrastructure
These obsolete laws still on the books would be comical if they weren't so constricting.
Energy
The New Hampshire House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would pave the way for consumer-regulated electricity.
Energy
Despite the rhetoric that energy tax credits are essential to energy dominance, the real obstacle holding back energy investment and deployment is regulatory bottlenecks at the federal, state, and local levels. Policy reforms that unlock all forms of energy development can enhance energy affordability and grid resiliency at a significantly lower cost to taxpayers.
Conservation
Congress recognized that conservation plays a critical role in global security and improved cooperation among countries when it passed the U.S. Foundation for International Conservation Act (USFICA) last December, as part of a nearly $1 trillion defense spending package.
Environment
Trump-era tax cuts and full expensing offer a pro-growth alternative to IRA subsidies, boosting innovation, ensuring business certainty, and advancing clean energy.
