The Advanced Manufacturing Tax Credit is Rebuilding U.S. Manufacturing

The United States is in the early stages of a manufacturing renaissance. While many factors have driven this momentum, few are more important than the Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit (45X). However, this credit, among others, is threatened by the U.S. House’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act as part of the 2025 budget reconciliation process that may make it effectively impossible to claim. As of early June 2025, the fate of the tax credit remains unclear. This brief outlines the potential reach of the Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit on the production of batteries, solar energy components, wind energy components, …

Assessing U.S. Electric Grid Operators’ Governance: Transparency, Accessibility, Accountability

The primary finding of the report card is that none of the seven U.S. grid operators perform particularly well in any assessment category and there is considerable room for improvement across grid operators in terms of transparency, accessibility, and accountability. The highest overall grade was a C+ earned by CAISO due to its strong performance in the accountability category. The lowest overall grade was an F earned by ISO-NE due to its receiving a failing grade in the accessibility and accountability categories. The five remaining grid operators (PJM, MISO, SPP, ERCOT and NYISO) each received an overall grade ranging from …

Embracing Clean Heat

This paper is a tailored resource for regulatory agencies, state policymakers, and local advocates who can seize this tremendous opportunity to lead on climate action, tackle a major source of hazardous pollution, protect community health, and advance environmental justice.

The solutions proposed in this paper are cost-effective and immediately deployable. The lifetime pollution reduction benefits from replacing gas-fired boilers with heat pumps outweigh the upfront costs in the vast majority of cases. Decarbonizing industrial boilers offers a savvy, effective win for policymakers while delivering life-changing benefits for frontline communities.…

Full Expensing is Pro-Growth, Pro-Environment Policy

Congress should replace clean energy tax credits with immediate full expensing for all new capital investments and research and development expenditures. Immediate or full expensing is a neutral tax code improvement that allows businesses to deduct investment costs upfront rather than over several years. This simple change would encourage broad based investment, including in clean energy infrastructure and research and development, without the market distortions created by subsidies. Replacing green subsidies with full expensing will support the economy and the environment more effectively, at a lower cost to taxpayers.…

Long-Term Planning among Regulated Natural Gas Utilities

State policymakers generally delegate the evaluation of proposed utility investments in energy resources and infrastructure to appointed or elected public utility commissions. Legislatures and governors reserve the authority to set state-wide energy policy goals, mandates for the use of in-state resources, equity and public engagement goals, economic development priorities, and others.

Across the U.S., state utility regulators are responsible for ensuring that utilities provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy at just and reasonable rates. Regulated utilities are granted the opportunity to earn a rate of return on expenditures on used and useful assets, as determined by state utility regulators (public …

Environment & Energy Congressional Round-Up – May 26-30,2025

Reps. John James (R-Mich.), Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.), and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) reintroduced the Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act (H.R.3617) to strengthen the Department of Energy’s capacity to identify domestic critical mineral needs and address supply chain vulnerabilities. Critical minerals have numerous applications in clean energy technologies, from wind turbines and solar panels to electric vehicle components and the electric grid itself.…

Exposure and Health Risks of Benzene from Combustion by Gas Stoves: A Modelling Approach in U.S. Homes

Natural gas and propane stoves emit benzene, a known carcinogen through combustion. This study evaluates population-level benzene exposure and associated health risks for the 6.3 million U.S. residents exposed to the top 5 % highest benzene-emitting gas stoves. We used the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s CONTAM, a multizone indoor air quality model, to simulate benzene concentration distributions across 24 floorplans by integrating benzene emission rates with U.S. housing stock data. Health risks were assessed using the USEPA Health Risk Assessment methodology under scenarios of low, medium, and high stove usage with ventilated (open windows or/and hoods) and non-ventilated …

West Virginia Ratepayers Footing the Bill for Infrastructure Build Out

The electric utility industry is forecasting rapid electricity demand growth from data centers, marking a sharp contrast with the past couple of decades of essentially flat electricity demand in the United States. Utilities and regulators are scrambling to address this new demand from data centers, which often require significantly larger amounts of power than typical industrial loads.

One of the new challenges posed by the rapid growth in data centers is the question of cross-subsidization, i.e., whether other ratepayers are or will be unfairly paying for electrical infrastructure needed only for data centers. This briefing note looks at this question …

US Power Sector Outlook 2025

US federal policy changes, coupled with concerns around surging demand for electricity and reliability, could provide a reprieve for the nation’s fossil fuels, but renewables and energy storage still dominate near-term generation additions.

According to an analysis of S&P Global Market Intelligence data, about 59 GW of wind and solar capacity and more than 31 GW of energy storage are projected to come online in the US during 2025. Solar generation continues to be the predominant resource seeking interconnection to the nation’s electricity grid, with nearly 49 GW of planned projects in the queue.

Gain vital insights into the capacity …

2025 Manufacturing Roadmap

This report details how renewing investments in onshoring domestic manufacturing for critical materials and infrastructure support progress in economic security, energy transition goals, and resilience.…