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⚙️ NEW MICROSITE JUST DROPPED ⚙️ Today @TheBTI launched navigatingnepa.com, featuring our analysis and open-source database of over 2000 District-level judicial NEPA opinions.

Building US critical mineral supply chains is hard enough - market volatility and export dumping only makes it harder So Im excited to release @TheBTI 's report that maps 15 US mineral supply chains and which commodities would be best to stockpile under a strategic reserve 🧵

The US has so far prioritized permitting reform to build more critical mineral mines My latest @TheBTI article shows why we need to do more on exploration too Remember: permitting is only one stage in developing a mine but even finding a deposit can take just as long!

New report by me and @BTI: The Procedural Hangover: How NEPA Litigation Obstructs Critical Projects NEPA litigation reshapes the process. Agencies pad the record, reports get longer, timelines slip, and projects are not built. Hence, the procedural hangover.

NEPA is widely understood as an impediment to timely, orderly, and cost-effective infrastructure investment and deployment. Explore how NEPA litigation is impacting clean energy, forest management, and much more with our new interactive website: navigatingnepa.com

NEPA litigation imposes costly delays, bureaucratic gridlock, and government dysfunction, all yielding deleterious procedural effects on major beneficial infrastructure investments. Read our new report: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

This is a lesson in misleading science communication, amplified by bad media reporting: “A Recent High-Profile Nature Paper Doesn’t Say What Its Authors Say it Does … It is harder to understand, however, why [the authors] portrayed the losses as … substack.com/home/post/p-16…

Should a US national critical minerals reserve program act more like the National Defense Stockpile or more like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve? A major new report by my team does a deep dive into this question, looking at 15 minerals relevant to energy. My thoughts🧵:

A strategic mineral reserve can be a good policy support to build markets and establishing clearinghouses, but physical stockpiles are likely not the answer to short-term critical mineral challenges. Read @thebti's latest report: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

"If the development community is serious about combating hunger by funding fertilizer chemical plants local to SSA, they cannot continue to dogmatically discard petrochemical solutions without giving them serious consideration." Read @RyanAlimento: breakthroughjournal.org/p/sub-saharan-…

Cost overruns are a huge source of concern for nuclear projects. We @TheBTI have just released ACTION, a proposal aimed at incentivizing nuclear builds to be completed on time and on budget. ACTION is forward-looking and proactively reduces project risk.

"The government should create a milestone-based program for advanced nuclear energy projects that incrementally reduces interest rates through credit subsidies when project milestones are achieved on time." Important new report @TheBTI: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

"Congress should create a milestone-based program for advanced nuclear energy projects that incrementally reduces interest rates through credit subsidies when project milestones are achieved on time." Read @thebti's Nuclear Team new proposal here: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

"Instead of an overhaul of the LNT model itself, focus should be on pragmatic policy and regulatory adjustments that leverage existing legal discretion." Read @thebti's PJ Seel and @Dr_A_Stein new white paper on the future of the LNT model: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

"Reducing federal involvement in mineral exploration risks perpetuating long project lead times, decreasing the number of successful critical mineral mines, and misdirecting valuable private sector investment overseas." @PeterCookBTI for @thetbti: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

The Breakthrough Journal is now THE ECOMODERNIST.

We are excited to announce that we are launching a new publication, The Ecomodernist. Under the banner of The Ecomodernist, we will be publishing relevant analyses and essays that seek to build a new environmental paradigm. Read more here: thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-ag…

"Sacrificing deregulatory goals in favor of short-term “wins” for downsizing the federal government is a mistake." Read @EmilyJane_Bass on the risk workforce reduction at key federal agencies poses on the future of agricultural biotechnology: thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-ag…

"Iran has enriched uranium far beyond what is necessary for either civilian energy or medical use, but has stayed short of the threshold of a weapon, creating public uncertainty." Read @MattLWald's breakdown of Iran's nuclear program: thebreakthroughjournal.substack.com/p/irans-nuclea…

"Iran has enriched uranium far beyond what is necessary for either civilian energy or medical use, but has stayed short of the threshold of a weapon, creating public uncertainty." @MattLWald breaks down Iran's nuclear program. Read here: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…