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The Rainey Center’s 2026 National Summit is coming to Walt Disney World, December 7–9 2026.
State leaders. Policy experts. Real conversations shaping the future.
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Research ≠ deployment. Two different conversations and the law needs to treat them that way.
Rainey Center President & CEO, @SarahEHunt01 at UChicago on what durable geoengineering policy requires: a clear statutory line, in sequential order.
Full panel: youtu.be/QSt1WoHG7ic?si=B6zo…
#ClimatePolicy #RaineyCenter
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Jun 13
"Treating conservatives as one bloc has been the single most consistent strategic error in this field."
@SarahEHunt01 at UChicago: at least 4 distinct conservative camps — and they don't respond to the same arguments.
Rainey polling: 55% support research under oversight. 7% want a ban. 8 to 1.
Full Panel Video: youtu.be/QSt1WoHG7ic?si=B6zo…
#ClimatePolicy #SolarGeoengineering #ConservativeVoters #RaineyCenter
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Jun 12
"American skies. American rules. American science." The conservative answer to geoengineering isn't prohibition, it's sovereignty. Rainey Center President @SarahEHunt01 at UChicago: we need monitoring, transparency, accountability, and a clear federal pathway that distinguishes serious researchers from fly-by-night operators. Right now they face the same regulatory environment. Which is practically none.
Full video: youtu.be/QSt1WoHG7ic?si=B6zo…
#ClimatePolicy #AmericanSovereignty #SolarGeoengineering #RaineyCenter
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Jun 12
The AI arms race gets talked about like it's a software competition. It's not.
It's an energy competition. The country that builds the infrastructure: the data centers, the transmission lines, the generation capacity, is the country that leads on AI.
#AIPolicy #NationalSecurity #RaineyCenter
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Jun 12
Last week, the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy brought together some of the most important voices in energy and policy at the Energize America 2030 NC State Policy Lab in Raleigh.
Thank you to our incredible speakers and participants who made it happen — including @SarahEHunt01, @CMCoe, @SteveDelBianco, Tom Hassenboehler, @RWalkerFW, @RepJakeJohnson, @RealJeffZENGER, @JasonSaine, and @murraybrianc
North Carolina is at the center of one of the most consequential energy conversations in the country. We're proud to be building the table where those conversations happen.
#Energize2030 #NCEnergyPolicy #RaineyCenter
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Jun 11
"Non-traditional conservatives" That's how Rainey Center President @SarahEHunt01 introduced the Rainey Center - One of the only center-right shops with active relationships across the full bench, because policy is an ecosystem that runs up and down the food chain. Contrarian, revelatory, rebellious. Her words.
Full panel: youtu.be/QSt1WoHG7ic?si=B6zo…
#RaineyCenter #CenterRight #PostPartisan #ClimatePolicy
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Rainey Center retweeted
Jun 11
Many thanks to @AEI and @dpletka for hosting me, Zainab Zeb Kahn @MALANational , and Zainab Al-Zuwaij @zainab17 this afternoon. What a wonderful discussion about our new poll, “Muslim American Identity at America’s 250.” (Link below)
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Jun 11
Rules established. Capital invested. Administration changes. Rules reversed. Capital stranded. Repeat. Our CEO @SarahEHunt01 argues the federal government is increasingly in the business of negotiating one-off deals to unwind its own decisions and Congress has both the authority and the responsibility to break that cycle.
Full piece on our Substack: raineycenter.substack.com/p/…
#EnergyPolicy #Congress #RaineyCenter
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Jun 11
When we talk about "investor confidence," we're not just talking about energy companies. We're talking about the pension funds, the endowments, and the retirement systems that millions of Americans depend on. @SarahEHunt01 explains who really bears the cost when government rewrites the rules.
Full piece on our Substack: raineycenter.substack.com/p/…
#Infrastructure #EnergyPolicy #RaineyCenter
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Jun 11
Energy companies are now receiving competing demands from two levels of government at the same time, each advancing a different view of the public interest.
@SarahEHunt01 breaks down what that impossible position means for the broader investment environment and why it can't continue.
Full piece on our Substack: raineycenter.substack.com/p/…
#EnergyPolicy #Federalism #RaineyCenter
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Jun 10
State-level bans on climate systems engineering aren't a settled political position - they're a symptom of a governance vacuum.
@SarahEHunt01: If you fill that vacuum with monitoring and transparency, opinions change quickly. Republicans support oversight by an 8-to-1 margin.
Full panel: youtu.be/QSt1WoHG7ic?si=B6zo…
#ClimatePolicy #SolarGeoengineering #ClimateGovernance #RaineyCenter
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Jun 10
New op-ed from Rainey Center Fellow Devan Patel in the Washington Examiner:
On AI, the Pope and the president agree more than you think. Children's safety. Human dignity. Countering China's surveillance model. The Magnifica Humanitas and American AI policy share more similarities than the headlines suggest.
washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
#AIPolicy #AIGovernance #RaineyCenter
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Jun 10
The Bluepoint dispute isn't really about offshore wind. Our CEO, Sarah E. Hunt, argues it's about something more fundamental: whether government agreements retain their value when political priorities shift. If investors can't trust that approved projects survive the next election, the consequences reach far beyond any single energy source.
Read the full piece on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/rainey…
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Rainey Center retweeted
Jun 10
America is in a global race for energy leadership and 10 years of bipartisan work is bearing fruit. We must keep the momentum going to lead the world in nuclear.
@jharrell before @HouseCommerce 👇
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Jun 10
"I'm not going to fight over whether nuclear or wind or solar or natural gas is the best form of electricity. We need to build all of it that is feasible." @SarahEHunt01
The goal isn't ideology, it's supply diversity, energy security, and winning.
#EnergyPolicy #AllOfTheAbove #EnergyIndependence #RaineyCenter
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Jun 10
Not a hypothetical.
A significant amount of American home security systems and internet activity is stored on servers in China. This isn't a tech problem. It's an energy infrastructure problem. And building more is one of the most direct national security arguments we have.
#NationalSecurity #DataCenters #RaineyCenter
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Jun 9
The conversations have to happen somewhere. The Rainey Center is making sure they do.
How do we build what America needs to win the AI arms race with China?
#EnergizeAmerica2030 #EnergyPolicy #RaineyCenter
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Jun 9
"You may not be crazy about wind and solar, but your grandchildren will hate being serfs to the Chinese Communist Party." @SarahEHunt01
Electrons aren't red or blue. We need every single one we can get.
#AIPolicy #WesternValues #RaineyCenter
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Jun 8
"We need as many electrons as we can get - as quickly as we can get them."
That means building transmission. Building generation. Building data centers. Building the roads to support it all. The urgency is real, and right now, regulatory roadblocks are standing in the way.
#EnergyPolicy #PermittingReform #RaineyCenter
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Jun 8
"Electrons aren't red or blue. We need to build it all." Sarah E. Hunt, Rainey Center President
The debate over which energy sources "count" has become so politically charged that we've lost sight of the actual goal. America needs all of it - and we need it now.
#EnergyPolicy #AllOfTheAbove #RaineyCenter
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