Break Obamas energy shackles and free Americas future

Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested by every major economy around the world in the race to dominate artificial intelligence — but none of it will matter without the energy needed to run it.Every AI breakthrough will depend on data centers and computing infrastructure that consume enormous amounts of electricity.In the age of AI, energy is king.Unfortunately for the United States, much of the federal regulatory framework still governing American energy production is mired in outdated and misguided Obama-era rules.In 2009, President Barack Obama’s administration issued its notorious endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.This ruling declared fossil-fuel emissions to be dangerous to public health, opening the door to federal regulation.It became the legal foundation for the next decade’s war on coal-fired powered generation and some of the most aggressive federal restrictions ever imposed on America’s power sector.Reflecting leftist climate orthodoxy, it aimed to force America to reduce energy consumption and eliminate energy sources that had fueled our prosperity for generations.Those assumptions have aged remarkably poorly.If America intends to win the AI race, it can no longer afford Obama-era policies designed to push some of its most reliable and abundant sources of energy out of the market.That’s why President Donald Trump must rescind the federal power-plant regulations, in effect since 2009, that were established under the endangerment finding’s aegis.There’s precedent for this: In February, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin rescinded similar regulations related to vehicle emissions.Applying the same logic to electricity generation would remove one of the largest regulatory obstacles standing in the way of the abundant, affordable power America will desperately need in the decades ahead.The United States currently possesses an estimated 249 billion tons of recoverable coal reserves worth trillions of dollars — and containing enough...