Step up to the podium. Last week, the Department of Energy announced that the United States once again led the world in oil and natural gas production in 2020, building on a trend that began in 2014 thanks to hydraulic fracturing and the shale revolution. In fact, since first overtaking Russia in

A new analysis from the Global Energy Institute takes a closer look at growing concerns over energy supply risks of critical minerals. Will Lithium Become the Petroleum of the 21st Century? examines America’s growing reliance on batteries and concerns over supply and production of the materials

In today’s complex world of commerce, the products that we buy are often assembled from parts and materials that originate from around the globe. Until recently, we could take this complexity for granted because everything worked smoothly. As anyone who tried to buy toilet paper during the height of

The Biden Administration’s recently released 2030 emissions reduction target will rekindle a longstanding debate over how fast—and how best—to deliver on ambitious climate goals. As a large and relatively uniform emissions source, the power sector has provided the heavy lifting behind U.S. emissions

Several years ago, we celebrated Earth Day by calling attention to what one group of state government officials refer to as “The Greatest Story Seldom Told”—namely, the incredible progress that the United States has made in reducing emissions, and America’s underappreciated standing as having one of

Readers of Fuel for Thought are very familiar with the Chamber (and the broader business community’s) ongoing efforts to build consensus and advance effective climate policy solutions. We’ve made no bones about the fact that technology and innovation are not just an underappreciated solution to the

In a Fuel for Thought post earlier this month, we took a first full-year look at 2020 Electricity Sales, Generation, and Emissions. On March 25th, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) published its latest Monthly Energy Review, which gives us our first full-year (though still preliminary)

No matter where you live across America, along with a myriad of other challenges, 2020 likely presented you with higher home electricity bills than in years past. This was not due to a nationwide spike in electricity rates; rather, it was because the coronavirus pandemic drove most of us to stay at