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    These Poor Countries Are Getting the Miracle Cure From Oil and Gas

    Nations once relegated to the margins of economic discourse are now sprinting toward prosperity, their trajectories propelled by a single, unifying force: energy. Energy is indispensable. From the huge AI data centers in the U.S. to the mega-scale manufacturing factories in China, affordable and dependable energy supplies make all the difference between living and thriving….
    Vijay Jayaraj
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    Trump’s Reversing Biden’s Appliance Energy Regs Will Lower Housing Costs, Experts Say

    President Donald Trump’s plan to reverse his predecessor’s energy regulations could lower the costs of housing, which reached record highs last summer.  The administration of President Joe Biden issued strict climate standards for household appliances, including gas stoves, washing machines, and dishwashers. While the regulations allowed Americans to keep their current appliances, the standards raised…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Probes EPA Waste, Financial Conflicts

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Financial conflicts of interest and billions of questionable expenditures under the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency are facing fresh scrutiny by House investigators. In a letter Thursday, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for a briefing, while also commending…
    Fred Lucas
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    Doug Burgum’s ‘4 Babies’ Plan for US Energy Dominance

    Interior Secretary Doug Burgum outlined the Trump administration’s aggressive strategy to restore American energy leadership through what he called the “four babies” approach: drill, baby, drill; map, baby, map; mine, baby, mine; and build baby build. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle, Burgum said he’s committed to drilling…
    Rob Bluey
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    Less Pain at Pump: Trump Energy Policies Cited as Gas Prices Dip

    With gas prices plummeting across the United States, the Trump administration is taking credit for Americans’ savings at the pump. The White House’s “Rapid Response” team sent out a flurry of jubilant posts on X on Monday, celebrating the fourth consecutive week of falling gas prices. But can Trump take credit? Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas,…
    George Caldwell
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    West Texas Sheriffs: Oil Theft Is a Major Crime Issue

    HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas—Law enforcement in West Texas say they don’t have enough manpower to deal with the rise of oil theft.   “Everybody's shorthanded,” Sheriff Art Granado of Reeves County told The Daily Signal at the March Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association meeting while explaining the oil theft issue in his community.   “There is…
    Virginia Allen
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    America’s Energy Renaissance: Trump’s ‘All Gas, No Brakes’ Approach 

    Adapted from a speech at The Heritage Foundation’s Texas Summit on March 7, 2025.  It is great to be living in the golden era of America. It’s hard to keep up with President Donald Trump, though, in the House of Representatives.  We have a president who is all gas and no brakes when it comes…
    Rep. Keith Self
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    Senate Democrats Seek to Hamstring Trump on Energy Policies

    Senate Democrats on Wednesday will attempt to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to combat the energy affordability crisis in the United States by forcing a vote on a resolution that, if it were to become law, would revoke his declaration of an energy emergency.  The joint resolution will be forced to a roll-call vote by…
    Jacob Adams
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    Energy Secretary Delivers ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Speech at CPAC

    Energy Secretary Chris Wright took the stage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Wednesday to expound on President Donald Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” philosophy. Wright, a former energy executive and an enthusiastic advocate for natural gas, began his speech at the conference in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., by asserting that energy…
    George Caldwell
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    Powering America: Trump’s Energy Plan

    On Day One back in office, President Donald Trump began dismantling the Biden administration’s costly energy agenda and replacing it with practical and sustainable energy solutions.  Trump is restoring “balance” to American energy policy, according to Gabriella Hoffman, director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at the Independent Women’s Forum.  The Trump administration is…
    Virginia Allen
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    New Coalition Seeks to Unite a Fragmented Pro-Life Movement, Backs Effort With $30M

    A new coalition backed by a $30 million venture fund from pro-life philanthropists will seek to unify the fragmented pro-life movement in America.  40 Days for Life co-founder David Bereit launched the Life Leadership Conference on Tuesday. The collective seeks to unite pro-life think tanks, ministries, and policy leaders under one umbrella so the movement…
    Moira Gleason
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    Dem Governors Complain About Energy Costs They Created

    It’s no secret that energy prices are on the rise. High demand for electricity and tight supplies—exacerbated by early retirements of coal-fired power plants—strain grid capacity nationwide. But rather than take accountability for destructive policies that produced these conditions, Democrat governors play the blame game. In October, electric grid operator PJM Interconnection received a joint letter from…
    Gordon Tomb
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    Lee Zeldin Hits the Ground Running at EPA

    Two years after a train derailment exposed residents of East Palestine, Ohio, to hazardous chemicals, the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is making the village his first official visit Monday. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman from Long Island, won his Senate confirmation vote Wednesday afternoon, spent Thursday and Friday meeting with…
    Rob Bluey
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    ‘Who Signed Off on That?’ Lee Zeldin Responds to Gun-Toting EPA Bureaucrats

    At his confirmation hearing Thursday, EPA administrator-designate Lee Zeldin suggested he would rein in a weaponized—literally weaponized—bureaucracy at the EPA. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing for Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Environmental Protection Agency administrator.  During the hearing, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, relayed instances during the administrations…
    Fred Lucas
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    Doug Burgum Is the Energy Expert Interior Needs

    Sprawled across our beautiful nation, more than 500 million acres of public land are entrusted to the Department of the Interior. A nearly incomprehensible amount of natural resources rest under our feet, a testament to the rich natural heritage Americans are heir to. This year, a man who embodies the true spirit of the American…
    Danielle Franz
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    Climate Change Isn’t Responsible for Disastrous Wildfires

    Extended periods of hot weather and drought create ideal conditions for hard-to-fight forest fires. Although climate models predict that such weather conditions generated by human-caused global warming will increase the incidence of wildfires, recent wildfires cannot be blamed exclusively—or even primarily—on global warming: Weather-driven conditions conducive to forest fires have existed for millennia as a…
    Susan Crockford
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    Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits

    The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear cases with major impacts for the separation of powers and for left-leaning states’ and municipalities’ ability to use their state courts as pawns to establish national climate change policy. To preserve federalism, the stability of the rule of law, and separation of powers in our Republic,…
    Donald J. Kochan
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    Tesla Cybertruck Explosion in Las Vegas Investigated as Possible Terrorism

    THE CENTER SQUARE—A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, resulting in the death of the driver and injuries to seven bystanders. Authorities are investigating the possibility it was terrorism-related. The explosion, which occurred just before 9 a.m. on New Year’s Day near the hotel’s main entrance, sent debris flying, damaging the…
    Shirleen Guerra
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    Why Fossil Fuels, Not Renewables, Are Key to Lifting Billions Out of Poverty

    President Joe Biden is backing a global effort with other wealthy nations to restrict government funding for oil and gas projects abroad. But instead of pushing other countries to transition away from fossil fuels—a key driver of economic growth around the world—America in 2025 should champion energy abundance to uplift all economies, especially low-income ones….
    Austin Gae
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    Is Climate Change Making Hurricanes Worse?

    Climate alarmists like President Joe Biden assure us that all we need do to avert the destruction of hurricanes—or at least to lessen it—is to sacrifice offerings to the climate gods by giving up our gas-guzzling internal combustion engines and paying indulgences to Al Gore or something. You see, humans as a species have sinned,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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