{"id":387526,"date":"2025-07-08T18:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387526"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:45:52","slug":"david-blackmon-the-obbba-resets-the-energy-policy-playing-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=387526","title":{"rendered":"DAVID BLACKMON: The OBBBA Resets The Energy Policy Playing Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"387530\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=387530\" 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href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/07\/07\/david-blackmon-the-obbba-resets-the-energy-policy-playing-field\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/07\/05\/opinion-the-obbba-resets-the-energy-policy-playing-field-david-blackmon\/\">THE DAILY CALLER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wattsupwiththat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-205.png?resize=528%2C50&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Daily Caller News Foundation\" class=\"wp-image-10239521\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Blackmon<br><em>David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make no mistake about it, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) signed into law on Friday by President Donald Trump falls neatly in line with the Trump energy and climate agenda. Despite complaints by critics of the deal that Majority Leader John Thune struck with Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski to soften the bill\u2019s effort to end wind and solar subsidies from the Orwellian 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the OBBBA continues \u2013 indeed, accelerates \u2013 the Trumpian energy revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaders in the oil and gas industry, hamstrung at every opportunity by the Biden presidency, hailed the bill as a chance to move back into some semblance of boom times. Tim Stewart, President of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/d.docs.live.net\/edf4293263e15ef8\/Documents\/usoga.org\">U.S. Oil and Gas Association<\/a>, told his members in a memo that, \u201cFor the oil and gas industry, the bill\u2026signals a transformative opportunity to enhance domestic production.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">API CEO Mike Sommers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldoil.com\/news\/2025\/7\/1\/u-s-senate-s-passage-of-obbba-a-win-for-american-energy-say-industry-reps\/\">also praised<\/a>&nbsp;the OBBBA as a positive step for his members: \u201cThis historic legislation will help usher in a new era of energy dominance by unlocking opportunities for investment, opening lease sales and expanding access to oil and natural gas development.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/06\/25\/why-oil-market-held-firm-in-face-of-another-middle-east-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(RELATED: Why Oil Market Held Firm In Face Of Another Middle East War)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While leaders of organizations like those must curb their enthusiasm to some extent in their public statements, they and their peers must be somewhat amazed at how much real substantive change the thin GOP majorities shepherded by Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson managed to stuff into this bill. This industry, historically an easily demonized bogeyman for Democrats and too often ignored by previous Republican presidents, does not experience days as encouraging as July 3 was in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even so, many Republicans, especially in the House, remained unsatisfied by amendments the Senate made to the bill related to IRA subsidy rollbacks. To help Speaker Johnson hold the party\u2019s narrow House majority together,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/07\/03\/how-house-conservatives-got-to-yes-big-beautiful-bill\/\">President Trump committed<\/a>&nbsp;the executive branch to strict enforcement of the new limitations, and promised the White House will work with congressional allies to move a major deregulation package ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the OBBBA as passed is chock full of energy and environment-related provisions. FTI Consulting, a business consultancy with a major presence in Washington, DC, published a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fticommunications.com\/quick-analysis-one-big-beautiful-bill-drives-more-gas-and-batteries-less-renewables\/?utm_medium=linkedin-employee&amp;utm_source=social-media&amp;utm_campaign=obbb-power-market-impact-analysis&amp;utm_content=article-impact-analysis-obbb-power-market\">quick analysis<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday that projects natural gas and nuclear as the biggest winners as the OBBBA\u2019s impacts begin to take hold across the United States. Interestingly, the analysis also projects battery storage to expand more rapidly over the next five years even as wind and solar suffer from the phasing-out of their IRA subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The side deal struck by Thune and Murkowski is likely to result in significant new investment into wind and solar facilities as developers strive to get as many projects on the books as possible to meet the \u201ccommenced construction\u201d requirement by the July 4, 2026 deadline. The bill\u2019s previous language would have required projects to be placed into service by that time. But even that softer requirement will almost certainly cause a flow of capital investment out of wind and solar once that deadline passes, given the reality that many of their projects are not sustainable without constant flows of government subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What it all means is that the OBBBA, combined with all the administration\u2019s prior moves to radically shift the direction of federal energy and climate policy away from intermittent energy and electric vehicles back to traditional forms of power generation and internal combustion cars, effectively reset the policy playing field back to 2019, prior to the COVID pandemic. That was a time when America had become as energy independent as it had been in well over half a century and was approaching the \u201cEnergy Dominance\u201d position so dear to President Trump\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s signing of the OBBBA gives the oil and gas, nuclear, and even the coal industry a chance at a do over. It is an opportunity that comes with great pressure, both from government and the public, to perform. That means rapid expansion in gas power generation unseen in 20 years, rapid development of next generation nuclear, and even a probable chance to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/02\/15\/opinion-trump-chris-wright-bidens-war-coal-david-blackmon\/\">permit and build new coal capacity<\/a>&nbsp;in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second chances like this do not come around often. If these great industries fail to grab this brass ring and run with it, it may never come around again. Let\u2019s go, folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no mistake about it, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) signed into law on Friday by President Donald Trump falls neatly in line with the Trump energy and climate agenda. Despite complaints by critics of the deal that Majority Leader John Thune struck with Alaska Sen. 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