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    Green Energy PAC Drops $15M to Unseat Freedom Caucus Members
    Members of the House Freedom Caucus now face a challenge from a major green energy PAC that is spending at least $15 million this campaign cycle to defeat them for voting against former President Joe Biden’s Green New Deal agenda. The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, which, according to Federal Election Commission filings obtained by…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Virginia’s Energy Future Needs the 3 Rs: Reality, Reliability, and Resilience
    Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s new 2026 energy plan has arrived in familiar packaging, promising affordability, reliability, economic growth, cleaner power, and a path to a net-zero electric sector by 2050. Under this plan, we’re to believe Virginians can have their green-energy cake and eat it, too. Unfortunately, they can’t. No matter how good her intentions, the governor’s mandates…
    Jason Hayes
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    Supreme Court Justices Cite ‘Wall of Precedent’ Against Boulder Climate Lawfare
    Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Monday of Boulder County’s claims that the energy company Suncor caused the county concrete harm by contributing to global climate change in a case that could open the floodgates of climate lawfare across the country. “If Boulder’s claims are allowed to go forward, some 90,000 municipalities across the country will…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Zach Lahn’s Plan to Help Farmers While Cleaning Up Iowa’s Water
    Zach Lahn was told he couldn’t win in politics by talking about Iowa’s water quality and the cancer crisis. Now, as the Republican nominee for governor, he is looking to restore the culture in Iowa by running for office on precisely those issues. Lahn sat down with the Daily Signal for an interview on Tuesday…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    The Real Story About Gas Prices, National Security, and the Economy
    While the American military action in Iran has been a source of many benefits to the U.S., a collateral negative effect has been the increase in world oil prices and the associated increase in gas prices at the pump for U.S. consumers. However, things may not be as dire as many would lead you to…
    Sanjai Bhagat
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    New Ad Ties Democrat to Water Pollution, Iowa Cancer Rates
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Democrat nominee for governor in the state with the second-highest cancer incidence rate in the nation is being tied to part of the problem. In a new campaign ad, Iowa Republican gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn links his Democrat opponent, Rob Sand, to Iowa water pollution. The ad also criticizes Sand…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    3 Reasons a Ban on Diesel Exports Won’t Work
    On the latest episode of The Heritage Foundation podcast “The Power Hour,” host Jack Spencer talks energy with Heritage Foundation Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan. In this excerpt, Morgan explains why a potential ban on diesel exports to lower U.S. diesel prices is a bad idea. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Jack Spencer:…
    Jack Spencer | Derrick Morgan
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    Alito Steps Aside in Supreme Court Climate Showdown After Left-Wing Groups Question His Energy Investments
    Justice Samuel Alito has recused himself from an environmental case set to be argued on Monday before the Supreme Court, months after left-leaning groups accused him of a potential conflict. In the case of Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, the question before the court involves the use of state tort laws…
    Fred Lucas
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    Iran’s Dwindling Influence on Shipping
    For decades, Iran’s clout was based on far more than missiles, proxies, or a nuclear file. It was about its ability to control shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Geographic location has given the regime significant strategic leverage and an ability to hold global energy markets hostage on a whim. What happens to oil…
    Jason Hayes | Brent Sadler
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    California Dictates What Cars You Can Buy. Here’s What Congress Can Do About It.
    No state should get to decide what type of car or lawn mower Americans across the country can buy. Yet that is the result of an arrangement under the Clean Air Act that allows California to seek federal waivers to impose more stringent vehicle emissions standards than those adopted by the federal government.   Congress now…
    Sarah Wagoner
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    Virginia’s Energy Mix May Include Fusion, But Will Require Natural Gas
    Virginia’s economic future depends on access to reliable, affordable energy. The Commonwealth already hosts more than a third of the planet’s hyperscale data centers, for example, and plans are on the drawing board to deliver even more capacity in the decades ahead. New data centers may be required to supply their own power at peak…
    Rich Tucker
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    The Supreme Court Should Slam the Door on Climate Lawfare
    Climate change will soon arrive before the U.S. Supreme Court, and with it the progressive Left’s most ambitious effort yet to impose Green New Deal socialism on an unwilling public.  Dozens of blue states and affluent hippie towns are demanding tens of billions of dollars from U.S. energy companies for alleged climate harms. These audacious lawsuits,…
    Todd J. Zywicki 
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    A Diesel Export Ban Won’t Solve Our Fuel Crisis
    Politicians on both sides of the aisle claim there’s a quick fix to stratospheric diesel prices: an export ban. It seems intuitive that if diesel can’t leave the country, there’s more available for domestic consumption and prices here will fall. Unfortunately, the oil market is not that simple, and a ban would do more harm…
    EJ Antoni | Sarah Wagoner
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    Utopian Net Zero Just Got Riskier
    Consider the argument that net-zero commitments by U.S. companies are indefensible. First, it is possible that every U.S. corporation could meet its net-zero commitments and yet have no impact on global warming so long as other countries keep emitting greenhouse gases. Second, one of the primary beneficiaries of corporate net-zero commitments is China, arguably the…
    Stefan Padfield
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    Who Pays for AI Data Center Costs? House Says Big Tech, Not Consumers
    The House successfully passed its first major legislation on artificial intelligence to ensure Big Tech pays for its energy usage, rather than passing costs onto the American consumer. The Ratepayer Protection Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support Wednesday night by a vote of 417-3. The data center operation legislation was brought forward by Rep. Gabe…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Top Cabinet Official Signals Prices Will Drop Soon
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told the Daily Signal that she predicts beef prices will decrease before the November midterm elections. Beef prices fell 1% in August, after a 0.8% decline in July. But Rollins said the Trump administration is not done working toward lower prices. “I think there’s a lot…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Texas Can Lead America’s Dependable Energy Future
    Every morning, Texas families flip a switch, turn a dial, and expect the lights to come on. Every day, Texas manufacturers fire up their plants expecting the power to hold. That expectation—power on demand—is the foundation everything else in our economy is built on.  Texas has spent decades earning the right to call itself the…
    Dawn Buckingham
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    The EPA Just Removed a Billion-Dollar Barrier to Reliable Power
    Energy deregulation is not simply about eliminating rules. It is about removing regulations that exceed statutory authority, impose overly burdensome costs, and make it harder for Americans to access affordable and reliable power, often with little or no environmental benefit. The Environmental Protection Agency’s repeal of the 2024 greenhouse gas standards for power plants does…
    Sarah Wagoner
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    SCOOP: Freedom Caucus Chair Pushes for Gas Tax Relief Before Recess
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Signal has learned that a leading House Republican plans to force a vote on legislation he introduced on Tuesday to suspend the federal gas tax for the rest of 2026. Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., told the Daily Signal that he believes that if the lower chamber were…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    EPA Moves to Scrap Biden Power Plant Rule, Saying Federal Law Doesn’t Allow Climate Change Regulations
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it is moving to repeal a greenhouse gas regulation the EPA imposed under President Joe Biden, saying federal law does not allow the agency to regulate power plant emissions in order to fight climate change. “The proposed rule takes the position that it is beyond our authority in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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