Renewable energy industries are vital for America in the 21st century. The US must have a diversity of energy sources including solar power, wind power, hydroelectric, and fossil fuel. We must have the capability to manufacture the vital equipment and supplies in each sector because a healthy energy sector is essential for national and economic security.
For much of the 20th century, the US was dependent on oil supplies from foreign nations, at great cost to our economy, our national security, our foreign policies, and our pocketbook. We must ensure we are never again in that position. We can do that by creating the conditions so that the two most important growth sectors in energy, solar power and wind power, are produced here with equipment and technology developed and located here in America.
Years ago, CPA warned that China was using American clean-energy tax credits to capture our solar industry — and we led the fight to slam that door shut.
New report finds nearly one in five dollars of diverted Chinese trade is being rerouted back into the U.S. market through third countries.
One year after Liberation Day, the most aggressive tariff escalation since 2018, the United States collected just half of what its own policy prescribes.
Subsidies across 15 key industrial sectors have reached their highest levels relative to revenue since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, according to an OECD study published June 1.
China is quietly making a move on one of America’s most critical industrial materials — copper. Texas is helping them do it.
The government increasingly sees critical minerals, battery materials and components, and refining as strategic industrial assets rather than low value goods often burdened by environmental regulations.
