This week, China announced new, tightened export restrictions on rare earth elements. It’s the latest “escalation in tensions” between China and the U.S. in the race to secure critical minerals…
Reuters reported last week that U.S. energy officials are looking into “unexplained communication equipment” in Chinese-made renewables technology. The federal government has “not publicly acknowledged the discoveries” and the two…
This month, China’s Ministry of Commerce blocked seven rare earth elements from imports to the U.S. The vulnerability of rare earths — and in general, critical minerals — to supply…
Over the weekend, a Chinese artificial intelligence company announced that its open-source AI model, DeepSeek-R1, required only a small fraction of the investment that U.S. tech companies are pouring into…
Representatives of the Department of Energy and Department of Commerce told attendees at RE+, an energy trade conference recently held in Southern California, that the U.S. solar supply chain faces severe hurdles.…
The U.S. needs to produce more critical minerals domestically, rather than sourcing them from overseas. A pair of House bills introduced last week recognizes the problem. S.5039 and S.5030 would…
A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) entitled Energy Technology Perspectives 2023 shows that China is the largest producer of wind and solar components, and it isn’t close.…
A recent article in Reuters said it best: power, meaning electricity, is the Achilles heel of all industrial production plants, and all metals are to some extent impacted by the…
American Experiment North Dakota has released a new report outlining the need for American energy leadership to make the world a safer place. Key points of the report include: Russia…
Several Chinese solar firms have had their shipments to the U.S. detained or sent back during the past several weeks as customs agents enforce a new law called The Uyghur Forced…
Bloomberg writes that pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try and spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the US and Canada,…
The following article originally appeared in Newsweek. It was written by Robert Bryce. Last June, the Biden administration was so concerned about China’s use of Uyghur Muslim slave labor to…
President Biden has announced a 24-month tariff exemption on solar modules manufactured in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, which are under investigation from the U.S. Department of Commerce for selling…
Dustin Mulvaney is the author of “Solar Power: Innovation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice” and is an associate professor of environmental studies at San Jose State University. In this episode, Mulvaney…
A recent MinnPost article claimed that “clean energy is not only affordable, with the prices continuing to decrease, but also reliable and will lead us to energy independence.” It all…
According to Recharge News, raw material and logistics inflation, coupled with downward price pressures from auctions, have led to an unsustainable situation where wind manufacturers are selling at a loss.…
In 2020, American Experiment warned that a Biden administration would likely cancel the mineral leases for the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. Yesterday, President Biden did exactly…
China is currently building an enormous 4,000 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in the northwestern region of Inner Mongolia. For context, this single coal plant is almost larger than the…
The Walz administration is seeking to unilaterally impose new regulations that will add more bureaucratic red tape for Minnesota iron ore and copper-nickel mining operations. You can tell the administration…
The following article was written by Valerie Richardson and it appeared in The Washington Times: A coalition of progressive and environmental groups took a roasting on the right after urging President Biden to…
On June 24, 2021, the Biden administration announced it would be banning products containing silicon materials from Hoshine, a Chinese company tied to widespread human rights violations affecting ethnic Uyghur…
Last week (June 17, 2021), the Minnesota House of Representatives debated the omnibus on climate and energy policy. Representative Mary Franson shined during this discussion, issuing a blistering speech that…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2021 CONTACT: Bill Walsh (651) 373-1819 Xcel Turns Its Back on Becker Decision not to build natural gas plant adds insult to injury of closing…
The following article was written by Isaac Orr. It originally appeared in the Duluth News Tribune: Prior to the 2020 presidential election, an anonymous source from the Biden campaign told…