The Defense Department (DOD) is investing in MP Materials to undercut China’s rare-earth magnet dominance. China dominates ...

Fueling The Conversation, Week of July 14th, 2025 After decades of wind and solar tax credits distorting energy markets, ...

Carbon dioxide emissions increased 1.1% in 2024 due mainly to a 1.8% increase in emissions from the Asia-Pacific region, ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has directed the state’s public electric utility, the New York Power Authority, to add at ...

A Department of Energy (DOE) report indicates that the United States could face significant power shortages by 2030 if ...

The Department of Interior (DOI) is proposing to reopen up to 82%of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska ...

Renewable energy and battery storage companies are canceling their Texas projects at rates not seen since the height of ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” represents a sweeping overhaul of U.S. energy policy, aimed at reshaping the federal ...

Currents is a weekly show produced by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) that recaps the latest news from ...

Electricity makes our lives better, brighter, and cleaner. After electricity is generated at a power plant, it needs to be transmitted on high-voltage power lines before it can be distributed to our ...

In 2011, IER released the first edition of the North American Energy Inventory. At the time, the U.S. energy situation looked far different than it does today. In 2011, the United States was the third ...

Despite Biden’s belief that renewable energy such as wind and solar are the cheapest forms of electricity, New Yorkers are about to receive higher bills for offshore wind that will raise their rates ...