-
1 month ago | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Olga Khakova |Haley Nelson |Simon Lomax |Morgan D. Bazilian
As the second Donald Trump administration settles in, at least one energy priority will remain consistent: bipartisan efforts to position the US nuclear energy industry for a greater share in the global marketplace. In early February, Secretary Chris Wright emphasized Trump’s priority for the United States: to “lead the commercialization of affordable and abundant nuclear energy” amid surging global energy demand.
-
1 month ago | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Simon Lomax |Morgan D. Bazilian |Greg Clough |Haley Nelson
Three years of Russia’s senseless aggression in Ukraine have caused monumental, unnecessary human suffering but also an irreversible impact on Russia’s energy sector. The war has diminished giants like Gazprom—once a massive revenue crutch for Moscow—into historic economic losers. Now, Vladimir Putin’s narrow path to regaining European gas market share is through liquefied natural gas (LNG)—a modern Trojan Horse of energy influence.
-
2 months ago | 
justsecurity.org | Simon Lomax |Greg Clough |Morgan D. Bazilian
One of the first actions of the new Trump administration was a year-long moratorium on permitting new export terminals for U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG). The so-called “pause” on LNG approvals, imposed in the final year of the Biden administration, was hailed by anti-fossil fuel groups and condemned by U.S. energy producers. Before the pause, the United States had risen to become the world’s largest LNG exporter at an astonishing pace.
-
Dec 4, 2024 | 
aei.org | Roger Pielke Jr |Morgan D. Bazilian |Simon Lomax
After a long and divisive election year, it’s tempting to view every policy issue as deeply polarized. Republicans see the world one way, Democrats see it another way, and never the twain shall meet. That may be true for some issues, but it doesn’t have to be true for the complex set of issues that comprise energy policy – from emissions, to affordability, to reliability, to national security and geopolitics.
-
Sep 21, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Gabriel Collins |Morgan D. Bazilian |Simon Lomax
Earlier this month, the US government sounded the alarm over the use of forced labor in the nickel mines of Indonesia. The finding has major implications for the energy transition because large amounts of nickel are needed to produce electric vehicle (EV) batteries and other low-carbon energy technologies.
-
May 30, 2024 | 
sg.finance.yahoo.com | Simon Lomax
The TelegraphThe West is completely unprepared for Xi Jinping’s next masterstrokeThe Chinese People’s Liberation Army last week launched a series of military drills around the island of Taiwan. Beijing’s escalation was presumably undertaken to overlap with the inauguration of Lai Ching-te as president earlier this month: Taiwanese voters struck a blow to Beijing at the start of this year, by electing a candidate who campaigned on what many viewed as a “China sceptic” platform.
-
May 17, 2024 | 
coloradopolitics.com | Morgan D. Bazilian |Greg Clough |Simon Lomax
To paraphrase Mark Twain, history doesn’t repeat itself — but it often rhymes. For proof, look no further than the debate regarding energy policy in the Colorado state legislature. For those who don’t follow the issue closely, Colorado is both a national and global leader on many areas of energy and climate policy, and especially when it comes to the regulation of emissions from oil and natural gas production.
-
Apr 10, 2024 | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Morgan D. Bazilian |Greg Clough |Simon Lomax
President Joe Biden’s climate change agenda is more aggressive than anything previously in US energy and environmental policy. Tax incentives, infrastructure investments, and regulatory mandates aim to put the nation on a path to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
-
Feb 8, 2024 | 
coloradopolitics.com | Morgan D. Bazilian |Simon Lomax |Brad Handler
Ten years ago this month, Colorado became the first U.S. state to directly tackle methane emissions from oil and natural gas production. It started with an unlikely coalition of environmental groups, major oil and gas companies and state air quality officials, who worked together to develop new regulations targeting methane. Those regulations, finalized in February 2014, were hailed as a “model for the nation.”But that was just the beginning.
-
Nov 9, 2023 | 
themessenger.com | Morgan D. Bazilian |Brad Handler |Simon Lomax
The environmental case for cutting methane emissions is crystal clear: Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and fast reductions will help stabilize the climate more than any other action we can take in the short term. This has prompted a series of government actions at the state and federal levels to reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas supply chains.
