Analysis
Critical Mineral Policy Needs BAAJA
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act is a running start to fixing what's wrong with mining
· Peter Cook
Energy Make clean energy cheap.
Affordable, reliable energy is essential for human development, and demand will grow for decades as developing nations emerge from poverty. Substantial innovation in clean energy technology is how emissions come down anyway.
Issues
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Nuclear
Latest: NRC Issues Construction Permit for X-energy's Advanced Reactor Project in Texas
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Data Centers
Latest: Don't Let Temporary Bans Become Infrastructure Policy
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Energy Demand
Latest: Software Won’t Expand the Grid
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Renewable Energy
Latest: The Faulty Logic at the Heart of Environmentalist Opposition to BAAJA
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Fossil Fuels
Latest: Caught Between Hormuz and a (Chinese) Hard Place
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Critical Minerals
Latest: Critical Mineral Policy Needs BAAJA
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Permitting Reform
Latest: Abundance Between 2026 and 2028
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Decarbonization
Latest: The Faulty Logic at the Heart of Environmentalist Opposition to BAAJA
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Artificial Intelligence
Latest: Abundance Between 2026 and 2028
Data and tools
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Nuclear Tool
NRC Rulemaking Tracker
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Mapping America's Nuclear Potential
Evaluating Deployment, Investment, and Impact in America's Clean Energy Future
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Nuclear Tool
Guide to NRC Application Data Requirements for State Implementers
Energy work
Research, analysis and everything on the record across nuclear, data centers, energy demand and more.
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NRC Modernization Should Pair Procedural Flexibility With Clear Guardrails
BTI supports streamlining NRC procedures while maintaining meaningful public participation
· Yue "Joy" Jiang
Analysis
Security Requirements Should Fit the Reactor, Not the Existing Fleet
Performance-based security is the right direction, but its conclusions need to hold up when the assumed threat changes.
· Yue "Joy" Jiang
Analysis
Getting Medical Isotopes to Patients
Cutting red tape for nuclear medicine only works if the new rules are clear enough to apply the same way everywhere
· PJ Seel
Analysis
Making Practicability the Standard for Uranium Groundwater Restoration
Codifying groundwater protection for uranium recovery is overdue, but the rule needs a clear point at which restoration is finished
· PJ Seel, Yue "Joy" Jiang, Spencer Toohill
Analysis
Two Permitting Bills Are Better Than One for America's Forests
Both FOFA and BAAJA can help reduce wildfire risk
· Emily Bass
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Who leads this work
Adam Stein
Director, Nuclear Energy Innovation Email
Latest: NRC Issues Construction Permit for X-energy's Advanced Reactor Project in Texas
Seaver Wang
Director, Climate and Energy Email
Latest: The Faulty Logic at the Heart of Environmentalist Opposition to BAAJA
Marc Levitt
Director, Environmental Regulatory Reform Email
Latest: The Unmistakable Need for BAAJA’s Clean Water Act 401 Reform
