The three largest manufacturers of solar inverters have been found vulnerable to remote sabotage that could have produced large-scale power outages if exploited. It’s lucky that a cybersecurity firm identified…
During President Trump’s joint address to Congress, he promised “historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the U.S.A.” Prioritizing domestic critical minerals exploration and development…
Yesterday, the White House announced an executive order titled “Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production.” The order is intended to increase domestic mineral production and decrease reliance on foreign…
A recent report from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), a global security nonprofit, found that Chinese firms control around 75 percent of Indonesian nickel production capacity. With Indonesia…
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…
In 2018, Center of the American Experiment released a report evaluating how environmentally responsible mining would boost Minnesota’s economy. With the help of economist John Phelan and Debra Struhsacker, a…
What a second Trump term could mean for the U.S. economy. In his victory speech on Nov. 6, 2024, Pres.-elect Donald Trump strongly declared, “I will not rest until we…
I don’t know how anyone could’ve adequately followed all the energy and environmental news that happened this year without spending 40 hours a week on the subject (and even that…
The Washington Examiner published an excellent article last week called “The Next Frontier: Major international policy change can help US catch China in race for critical minerals.” It’s good to…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) last week again predicted a decline in global coal use, expecting demand to plateau through 2027 and decline thereafter “as renewable energy sources play a…
The Washington Free Beacon reported recently on China’s expanded export ban of the critical minerals antimony, gallium, and germanium — all necessary for military and energy applications — and a…
Some recent headlines in the local media read: Those business leaders are correct. The proposed tariffs would harm Minnesota’s economy. The precise details of the proposed tariffs are somewhat fluid,…
American Experiment’s John Hinderaker speaks with Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist, researcher, and writer, about his bestselling book, the roots of cultural wokeism, and putting a stop to the political…
While the media focused on Pres. Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate performance on June 27, it ignored the administration’s glaring contradictions in its climate policy. The day after the debate,…
A new report released today by Center of the American Experiment provides a stark warning that the minerals needed to achieve so-called net zero policies are either in short supply,…
A second sentencing hearing has been set for this month in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case. Mohamed Jama Ismail is due in court on October 15 to learn…
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…
Minneapolis… This week, I’ve written about property tax hikes coming to Minneapolis. Sure enough, as the Star Tribune reports, on Wednesday Mayor Frey announced: …a $1.88 billion budget and an…
Minnesota appears to have hit the jackpot again in the quest for strategic resources and minerals increasingly in demand for electronics, laptops, phones, batteries and defense industry. Less than a…
In our 2021 report “The State of Minnesota’s Economy: 2020 — A focus on economic growth,” we wrote: What matters for economic welfare is per capita income. This is a…
On Jan. 5, 2024, Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman approved the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) controversial K-12 social studies standards, which have generated public outcry for three years. He…
Peter Schweizer’s Blood Money devotes a good part of its Chapter 5 to the activities of an obscure Minneapolis-based outfit, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). We had previously discussed…
Fox News recently ran a story outlining how The Energy Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit with a staff that boasts extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is spending…