1. Geopolitical competition with China makes protectionism necessary 2. Protectionism is economically costly and bad. 1 + 2 = we need freer trade with friendly countries for a stronger economy and a stronger alliance system. slowboring.com/p/the-economic…

And sadly, it’s actually a bit worse - because this intentionally omits a variety of interagency bodies that are mostly ad-gov in nature…

An attempt to bring some clarity to the complicated world of U.S. energy policy, its evolution, and the role of government relations for project developers and the commodities world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gov…

No apologies for bringing up the need for permitting reform in my first answer (and constantly thereafter!) Appreciated the conversation with everyone and Quill Robinson kept our left-right-center triumvirate on task as we dug in. Thanks to the CSIS team for hosting.

What a time to be alive

Sports (new definition): The group of activities in which the answer to 'Does this make me a bad person?' is not YES, YOU IDIOT in all caps.

Senator Joe Manchin and Sen. John Barrasso have written a thoroughly bipartisan "all of the above" permitting bill that doesn't shy away from the contentions topics. There's more to do — NEPA judicial reform especially! But this is a great start!

Let it not go untweeted that Matthew Yglesias and Derek Thompson’s conversation was excellent, weighing the need for a widespread culture of abundance that breaks containment from wonky policy conferences vs. the political risks of increasing the salience of these ideas.

1/ I wrote for NYT on a 3-prong strategy for climate progress under Trump. -innovation & industrial strategy -pragmatism on fossil fuels -expand interests that benefit from decarb This same approach led to IRA/IIJA. But it does not pass the purity test for activist groups.

This. And having been there for a much different dynamic in 2021/20222, we couldn’t even though Senator Manchin very much wanted to.

My friend Peter Stahley on the dynamics of copper in China at recent Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 American Conservation Coalition Action Energy Imperatives Summit. American critical mineral policy can’t/won’t be simply replicating the upside-down Chinese market.

Recently joined the ⁦HC Group⁩ podcast to talk permitting, NEPA, SCOTUS’ 7 county decision and more. Had a blast, as always, with ⁦Paul Chapman⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bui…

⚙️ NEW MICROSITE JUST DROPPED ⚙️ Today Breakthrough launched navigatingnepa.com, featuring our analysis and open-source database of over 2000 District-level judicial NEPA opinions.

🎙️Now live: Episode 1 of Right of Way, a podcast about energy & permitting hosted by Thomas Hochman and me. We spoke with Liam Donovan & Yogin about energy tax reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the road ahead. open.spotify.com/episode/4BSP2Q…

🚨 Starting in 2 minutes 🚨 | In the newest @csis #EnergyShots Kevin Book and I break down the energy stories before the dominance duo meet in Alaska. 🔗 here: csis.org/events/energy-…

🎤 Now up: Episode 2 of Right of Way. Thomas Hochman and I talked to Peter Stahley and Richard Meyer about how laws like the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act work, how they can be a barrier to deploying projects of all kinds, and how to fix them.

Transcript is live up on Green Tape! In this episode, we discuss: - How NEPA works (or doesn’t), and how reform efforts have shaped outcomes - The role of the Clean Water Act in stalling major projects - The politics and political tradeoffs in permitting reform

We’ve started asking our guests for an energy “hot take” at the end of every episode. I thought this, from Peter Stahley, was really good: Permitting reform will require both the Right and Left to “trust the government” in ways they haven’t historically been comfortable with.