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DAVID BLACKMON: America’s EV Industry Must Now Compete On A Level Playing Field

America’s carmakers face an uncertain future in the wake of President Donald Trump’s signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law on...

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DAVID BLACKMON: The OBBBA Resets The Energy Policy Playing Field

Make no mistake about it, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) signed into law on Friday by President Donald Trump falls neatly in line with the...

06.07.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Senate Passage Of The OBBBA Involved High Drama Around IRA Subsidies

Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote as the U.S. Senate approved its final version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), 51-50, at...

03.07.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Enviros Head To Memphis For Another Attack On American Industry

The subject of the rapid growth of AI technology, its associated data centers, and how they will source the electricity required to meet their massive...

27.06.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Oil Price Spike That Didn’t Happen

What if they gave an oil price spike and nobody came? That is admittedly kind of a lame play on an old saying about parties, but it’s exactly what...

27.06.2025 20

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BLACKMON: Trump And Wright Move To Speed Nuclear Expansion

Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced an ambitious plan to have three small modular reactors (SMRs) built and producing power at the Idaho National...

21.06.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Inspires Hope For Permitting Reform

It comes as a surprise to many Americans when they learn that the vast majority of decisions issued by the U.S. Supreme Court are decided unanimously....

18.06.2025 7

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Ends Newsom’s Terrible Week By Killing His EV Mandate

'Complaining bystander in his own state'

14.06.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s New National Permitting ‘Sherpa’ Has A Big, Complex Job

By now it should be obvious to everyone that, if America is to have any hope of maintaining a stable power grid and a strong level of national energy...

11.06.2025 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: On Energy, China Knows What The Rest Of Us Must Re-Learn

'Energy transition just isn't happening'

07.06.2025 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Keeps Focus On America’s Energy Dominance

'Unleash domestic fossil fuels'

04.06.2025 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Did Trump And Hochul Just Swap An Offshore Wind Farm For A Pipeline?

When I wrote about the potential revival of the Constitution Pipeline project here two weeks ago, I received several notes assuring me it would never...

31.05.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Is The Solar Boom About To Implode?

'Financial struggles are going global'

28.05.2025 3

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Congress, Trump Move To Accelerate A New American Nuclear Age

27.05.2025 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Shale Gas And Nuclear Set To Power The US Into The Future

While countries like Canada, the UK, Australia, and those in the European Union continue their obsession with intermittent power sources like wind and...

21.05.2025 7

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DAVID BLACKMON: Why A Major Gas Pipeline Through New York Could Soon Be A Reality

'Political equation has massively improved'

17.05.2025 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Chris Wright Has To Clean Up Joe Biden’s Mess

'Careless disregard for national security'

10.05.2025 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Innovative Solutions Like This One Will Drive Natural Gas Demand For Decades

'Net-zero emissions profile'

08.05.2025 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: DOJ Opens A New Front On Trump’s American Energy Dominance Agenda

'Things have changed'

03.05.2025 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s First 100 Days Of Energy Policy Are A Rousing Success

Australia-based energy firm Woodside announced Monday plans to invest $17 billion in  a new liquefied natural gas export facility to be sited in...

30.04.2025 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: What Should We Do About Rare Earth Minerals?

'Integral to production'

26.04.2025 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Truth About Earth Day

'Rousing success'

23.04.2025 20

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Tesla Continues to Reign Supreme Despite Leftist Violence

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The obviously organized attacks on electric carmaker Tesla’s infrastructure and owners of Tesla cars by leftists...

19.04.2025 8

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DAVID BLACKMON: Burgum Says What’s Good For Offshore Oil Is Good For Offshore Wind

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered Equinor to halt all work late Wednesday at its Empire Wind project offshore New York. Equinor complied with the...

19.04.2025 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Tesla Continues To Reign Supreme Despite Leftist Violence

'Great thing for America'

16.04.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Reconciliation Permitting Reform Will Make America Go Big Again

'America needs builders, not blockers'

12.04.2025 7

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DAVID BLACKMON: AI Needs Natural Gas To Survive

'Put down big bets'

10.04.2025 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s Tariff Strategy Isn’t A Big Mystery

'Tactical behavior'

29.03.2025 6

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DAVID BLACKMON: This Might Be The Biggest Stain On Biden Admin’s Legacy

'It's a travesty'

26.03.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Tesla Could Be On The Brink Of ‘Blackberry Moment’

'Under siege'

23.03.2025 30

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DAVID BLACKMON: OPEC Delivers Masterful Rebuke To Global Energy Agency Head

'Severe yo-yoing between positions'

15.03.2025 6

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DAVID BLACKMON: Reality Finally Returns To Energy Industry

'Globalist' failure

12.03.2025 2

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Zeroes In On American Energy In Congressional Speech

'The whole world has changed since Jan. 20'

05.03.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Could Upend Every Facet Of The Obama-Biden Climate Agenda In One Fell Swoop

'One big way'

01.03.2025 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Can Trump Revive The Keystone Pipeline?

'No one should give up hope yet'

27.02.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Holding No Levers Of Power, Democrats Focus On Lawfare To Slow Trump Agenda

'Democrats and their supporting activist NGOs also fought Trump’s first term agenda'

01.02.2025 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Agenda Will Likely Take On An Entirely New Shape

'Build, baby, build'

29.01.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Dresses Down The Davos Globalists

It was an opening salvo that flew directly in the face of remarks made earlier in the week by the likes of European Commission leader Ursula Von Der...

25.01.2025 8

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Moves To Reverse Biden’s Green New Deal Agenda — With A Special Focus On Wind

'But we should also note that Trump goes even further'

22.01.2025 3

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DAVID BLACKMON: Key Trump Cabinet Nominees Face A Daunting Energy Policy Mess

An enormous mess to clean up

18.01.2025 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Could Put An End To Biden’s Offshore Wind Vanity Projects

'There is another principle at stake here that Trump should address'

15.01.2025 9

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DAVID BLACKMON: ESG Is Collapsing And Net Zero Is Going With It

'Just a few years ago, ESG was all the rage in the banking and investing community'

11.01.2025 8

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Calls Biden’s Drilling Ban ‘Worst Abuse Of Power I’ve Ever Seen’

The Biden White House said early Monday that outgoing President Joe Biden has ordered huge swaths of U.S. federal waters off-limits to future...

06.01.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: 10 Things Trump Can Do In The First 100 Days For Energy Independence

President-elect Donald Trump has a big job ahead of him in restoring common sense and sanity to federal energy policy when he takes office on...

01.01.2025 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump Should Consider Adding Another Globalist Org To Funding Chopping Block

Among the many promises and commitments that he has made during his ongoing transition period, President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to pull...

28.12.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Granholm’s LNG Farce Puts A Proper Coda On Biden’s Energy Policy

As Congress struggled with yet another chaotic episode of negotiations over another catastrophic continuing resolution, all I could think was how...

21.12.2024 10

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DAVID BLACKMON: Liberals Cook Up Ways To Make Climate Alarmism Sound A Little Less … Crazy

Recognizing that voters are increasingly skeptical of extreme climate regulations, dark money groups have stepped in with millions of dollars to...

18.12.2024 5

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DAVID BLACKMON: Norway Provides An Object Lesson On How Not To Make Energy Policy

“It’s an absolutely sh*t situation.” That is the assessment of Norway’s energy minister, Terje Aasland, about his country’s electricity...

14.12.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Job One For Doug Burgum

Anticipating a potential Donald Trump win over first President Joe Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race, officials...

11.12.2024 4

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DAVID BLACKMON: Big Tech’s Sudden Rush Into Nuclear Is A Win-Win For America

The U.S. power-generation sector has been hit in recent weeks with story after story about Big Tech firms entering into deals with power providers...

10.12.2024 5

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