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Jack Stevens: Investors Say Yes While Trump Says No to Renewables
Private equity investors are favoring clean energy over fossil fuel, bucking policy headwinds from the Trump Administration. According to...
Jack Stevens
Aug 12, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: The Unmentioned, Other Victims of “Alligator Alcatraz” – Indians
Photo credit: Amy Green, Inside Climate News The Trump Administration is continuing by other means the Indian wars of the 19 th...
Jack Stevens
Aug 9, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: Burgum Tells Us How He Really Feels About Wind and Solar
Last Friday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum sent his strongest message yet that wind and solar developers are not welcome on federal land...
Jack Stevens
Aug 5, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: Clean Energy is Far Outpacing Hydrocarbon Generation
The Trump Administration has been unequivocal in its preference for fossil fuel-based energy generation. And data shows that they are...
Jack Stevens
Aug 1, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: The More Things Change at the BIA, the More They Stay the Same
The BIA’s 2026 budget brings good news for bureaucrats: They are still in charge. After professing allegiance to the “BIA’s core...
Jack Stevens
Aug 1, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: There’s No Going Back
Last weekend, President Trump demanded on Truth Social that, "The Washington 'Whatever's' should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to...
Jack Stevens
Jul 22, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: Strangled by Red Tape
There was a time not so long ago when the Republican Party could be relied upon to staunchly oppose unnecessary regulations and red tape....
Jack Stevens
Jul 19, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: A Giant Leaves Federal Service
David Glass Indigene Economics Group LLC has learned (two months after the fact) that David Glass has retired from federal service, where...
Jack Stevens
Jul 18, 20251 min read


Stephen Manydeeds: Everyone Prospers from Tribal Energy and Mineral Development
The following graphs show that when energy and minerals are developed on Indian lands, they have a significant beneficial impact on...
Jack Stevens
Jul 11, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: We Can’t Get There with Hydrocarbons Alone
The energy challenge for the US in the foreseeable future is to produce enough electricity to quench the nearly insatiable demands of...
Jack Stevens
Jul 6, 20252 min read


Jack Stevens: Tribes May Get the Last Laugh Regarding the GOP's Excise Tax on Clean Energy
To kill clean energy projects root and branch, the Senate GOP is imposing an excise tax on certain wind and solar projects placed into...
Jack Stevens
Jul 1, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: Wright is Wrong
Energy Secretary Chris Wright As a cheerleader for the Senate GOP's ravaging of clean energy tax incentives, Energy Secretary and former...
Jack Stevens
Jun 30, 20251 min read


Stephen Manydeeds: Misguided BIA Energy and Mineral Policies Cost Tribes $500,000 in Just Two Years
In the last two years, BIA leadership has laid off or lost 75% of the Division of Energy and Mineral Development’s (DEMD’s) contractors...
Jack Stevens
Jun 27, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: Time to address the BIA’s Reputation
I just finished reading David Crow’s The Pale-Faced Lie, A True Story (2019, Sandra Jonas Publishing, 349 pages), a harrowing memoir of...
Jack Stevens
Jun 23, 20252 min read


Jack Stevens: GOP Hellbent to Cut Tax Incentives for Clean Energy, Despite IRA Investments, Polls
Both the House and Senate versions of the federal budget bill do away with tax incentives for wind and solar projects. These subsidies...
Jack Stevens
Jun 20, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: Users Disprove Justification for Eliminating Indian Loan Guarantee Program (ILGP)
We’ve posted a lot in this space about the need to preserve the ILGP, now targeted for extinction by budgeteers who have been told that...
Jack Stevens
Jun 20, 20252 min read


Jack Stevens: A Brief Explanation of Indian Trust Lands
Tribal lands comprise 56 million acres of the US, a land mass slightly larger than Minnesota, the 12th biggest state in size. Most...
Jack Stevens
Jun 14, 20252 min read


Jack Stevens: The GOP’s Myopic Rejection of Clean Energy
Republicans in Congress seem determined to squelch clean energy projects even when they benefit their own districts and states. The...
Jack Stevens
Jun 6, 20251 min read


Jack Stevens: JD Vance Needs a History Lesson
During a podcast interview in 2023, JD Vance said, “When the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say,...
Jack Stevens
May 18, 20252 min read


Stephen Manydeeds: The BIA Unmasked
The BIA would like tribes to believe that it plays a role in economic development on their lands. But the reality is that the BIA is...
Jack Stevens
May 15, 20252 min read
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