Energy Policy Perspectives Vol. 24 Last week, the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act (HR 9340) by an overwhelming 417-to-3 vote. The bill has been sent to the Senate which will now consider reconciling its own shorter, more partisan bill (S 5028), to the House bill. The House bill requires large load customers of 100+ MW to pay the full cost of all infrastructure/power costs of their incremental electricity loads. HR 9340 also orders state

Energy Policy Perspectives: Vol. 23 The U.S. EPA’s actions on Monday are best interpreted as two separate policy events: 1) the U.S. EPA finalized its repeal of most of the Biden-era 2024 power plant CO₂ standards; and 2) issued a supplemental proposal which aims to go materially further. The supplemental proposal would rescind the remaining Obama and Biden-era federal GHG standards under Clean Air Act Section 111 and the underlying 2015 findings supporting federal GHG regula

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX, Aug 24, 2026 – On August 18, 2026, the Tuloso-Midway Independent School District successfully completed the first bond issuance authorized by voters in the May 2026 bond election, selling approximately $121.2 million of Unlimited Tax School Building Bonds, Series 2026 in a transaction led by Siebert Williams Shank & Co. The bonds represent the first phase of the District's $140 million voter-approved bond program. In the May 2, 2026 election, Proposition A

ENERGY POLICY PERSPECTIVES: VOL. 22 The political and regulatory environment around AI data centers is shifting the AI power trade from broad thematic exposure toward execution. Political and regulatory scrutiny is increasing and, as demonstrated by the recent actions of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, policymakers are adding more conditions on AI data center development as they seek clearer answers on project credibility, cost responsibilit