From mining for critical minerals to the construction of pipelines, roads, bridges, and tunnels, efforts to upgrade America’s infrastructure continue to be tied up in red tape.
Faster permitting, together with a public awareness campaign focused on economic and national security concerns from over-reliance on imports, are good steps.
China’s communist government has repeatedly ignored protests from the U.S. government, more than a dozen Western parliaments, and the United Nations.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to Wyoming last week to cut the ribbon on the first new rare earth mine in the U.S. since the 1950s.
Africa’s minerals industry got a wake-up call.
The Trump administration is opening a new front against America’s chief geopolitical rival.
The dominance of these NGOs in the extractive sector has led to a “monopoly of thought,” where their narratives and priorities overshadow diverse perspectives, particularly those of local communities and governments.
The champagne has already flowed, but rebuilding the state’s vital oil and gas industry is going to take time.
Thankfully, the United States is blessed with mineral wealth.
For jobs, revenue, national security, defense and medical needs; to end child labor, pollution.
Africans are exercising new muscle toward regaining control of the continent’s vast mineral resources.
The U.S. needs metal and mineral independence.
Over-burdensome and impossibly complex regulations like the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 are partially responsible for our current security crisis.
Reliable energy, human rights, land impacts, air and water pollution, lost wildlife get ignored.
In this latest episode, host Gabriella Hoffman (who also serves as a CFACT senior policy analyst) explores Alaska's “Inside Passage” — The Tongass National Forest near the state capital of Juneau.