UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania — Scott Dunn did not get a call from Washington. Instead, he received calls from his constituents. The chairman of the Fayette County Board of Commissioners had watched the March announcement like everyone else: a $17 billion natural gas generation hub somewhere in southwestern Pennsylvania, with 4.3 gigawatts of capacity, financed through Japan’s […]
Critical minerals are the strategic resource in today’s version of the Cold War. These raw materials, which require sophisticated and complex techniques to extract and process, will largely dictate U.S. success or failure in that geopolitical contest. Their applications span the aerospace, defense, electronics, energy, medical, and transportation sectors. Fortunately, after years of lagging in the […]
Electricity bills keep climbing, and politicians and pundits are searching for someone to blame. Data centers have become a popular scapegoat — a narrative the Taxpayers Protection Alliance has been busy debunking. Others point the finger at utilities, arguing they are incentivized to build more and spend more to goose a guaranteed rate of return […]