America’s energy security risk score dropped for the sixth consecutive year in 2017, nearing the best score since 1970 according to the Global Energy Institute’s just-released 2018 Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk.

The Index employs 37 different energy security metrics measuring geopolitical, economic, reliability, and environmental risks. The ninth annual edition of the Index covers historical data from 1970 to 2017 and forecast data out to 2040.

There’s no doubt that businesses large and small throughout America are focused on ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  While the U.S. has made great progress over the last decade, the private sector is hard at work finding new and innovative ways to reduce emissions—including from an unlikely source: pigs. 

This morning at the annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce State of American Business address, our president and CEO Tom Donohue implored Congress and the Trump Administration to come together and end the partial government shutdown. A Chamber letter to Congress highlighted alongside Donohue’s address detailed the numerous harmful impacts of the closure, which is already the second longest in U.S. history.