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Infrastructure

Senate Permitting Bill Would Clear a Path for Long-Distance Power Lines the Grid Needs

As Americans see their electricity bills rise, utilities are spending record sums on the grid while building fewer of the long-distance lines it needs. Investor-owned utilities are on track to spend $1.4 trillion on the power system through 2030, yet the country added just 400 miles of high-voltage transmission in 2025, down from 4,000 miles in 2013. 

Conservation

The Senate Permitting Bill Would Speed Infrastructure Reviews Without Sacrificing Endangered Species

The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA), introduced by Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Mike Lee (R-UT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM), offers an opportunity to address that imbalance. The bill would streamline federal permitting, including through targeted Endangered Species Act (ESA) reforms: shorter consultation deadlines, a clearer scientific standard, and a larger role for states.

World

China’s Critical Mineral Threat Is Real, but Narrower Than Washington Thinks

A year ago, President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Busan, South Korea, and agreed to a truce over critical minerals. The two countries had been in the middle of an escalating trade war. China agreed to suspend a set of sweeping rare earth export controls, including licensing rules for products made anywhere in the world containing even trace amounts of Chinese rare earths. The United States, in turn, rolled back several tariffs and paused some of its own export restrictions.

We won World War II faster than we can plug in a power plant

Drew Bond writes in the Washington Examiner about how lengthy permitting processes are slowing

Press

American Moment Cites C3 Solution’s Research

American Moment and the American Conservation Coalition’s Energy Dominance Study Guide cite our paper,

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C3 Solutions Announces Simone Shenny as VP of Communications and External Affairs

WASHINGTON, D.C. — C3 Solutions announces that Simone Shenny will join the organization as

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