Historic EPA Deregulations Set the Stage for Frontieras North America’s Growth
March 18th, 2025
Written by Matt McKean, CEO and co-founder of Frontieras North America (LinkedIn)
2025 is set to be historic for America's energy market. For Frontieras North America, its’ investor community, and the American people, 2025 represents the revitalization of the American coal sector as Frontieras is poised to deliver on its promise of abundant, affordable, and available energy.
With President Trump’s election, the promise to unleash American energy is coming to fruition. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unveiled groundbreaking environmental policies last week that are reversing the Obama/Biden environmental regulations which have handcuffed the energy market, obstructed innovation, and forced trillions in regulatory costs and hidden taxes on Americans.
Last week, the EPA introduced 31 “historic actions” to help fulfill President Trump’s Day One executive orders and power the great American comeback.
At a high level, these actions are rolling back Obama’s introduction of the EPA’s "Endangerment Findings" that monitored and limited greenhouse gases. Of the 31 actions, two key reconsiderations are accelerating Frontieras’ ability to fast track the creation of the FASForm plant, including:
Reconsideration of regulations on power plants: The mandate of an impossible 90% carbon capture of all power and natural gas plants has shuttered the production of existing plants and all but eliminated the creation of new plants.
Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry: These Biden regulations have effectively shut down smaller producers by imposing high-cost methane capture requirements which have limited the amount of time they could operate and incur the burden of cost associated with the additional process.
Collectively, the rollback of these regulatory demands by the EPA has provided the fourth and final component necessary for Frontieras to introduce its FASForm technology to the energy sector — i.e., Politics. Frontieras’ management team strategizes behind a model which recognizes that Science, Technology, Economics and Politics (STEP) must align to successfully introduce a large-scale technology into society.
Politics have been the missing element to successfully change and correct the narrative of coal, redirect the resources and subsidies that have been applied to “green energy” for the past and, most importantly, change the legislations that govern the energy sector.
Recent post to Trump’s Truth Social Account.
For the past four years, Frontieras has concentrated on elements within its control, including developing a business model to leverage its innovative technology while enabling the company to achieve financial stability without relying on government subsidies. The EPA’s announcement last week brings the fourth pillar into place (Politics) for Frontieras which breaks down the political barriers and provides a watershed moment for Frontieras as it moves rapidly towards an initial public offering.
FASForm (Technology): Frontieras’ technology extracts maximum value from coal and other hydrocarbons, including lignite, oil sands and waste plastics. Unique in the market for its innovation, Frontieras’ Solid Carbon Fractionation (SCF) is a significant leap forward as a new energy recovery technology that uses a continuous closed-loop refining approach. This process splits coal and other feedstocks into gases, liquid hydrocarbon fuels and technical carbon at a much lower emissions footprint and far lower price than conventional refining. By deconstructing the coal to its core elements, Frontieras has the key components to produce:
2.3 barrels of liquid fuels from each ton of coal processed.
Over 20 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of hydrogen, used to treat the straight-run diesel to Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD).
FASCarbon™, a metallurgical coke that serves as an injection replacement carbon for steel manufacturing or thermal fuel for coal-fired plants that burns hotter and cleaner, with lower emissions.
Sulfuric acid, a vital chemical commodity, and ammonium sulfate fertilizer, a high-value commodity within the global agriculture market. These two commodity products result from Frontieras utilizing would-be waste products from Frontieras’ Solid Carbon Fractionation process.
Hydrocarbons (Science): Hydrocarbons, in the form of fossil fuel, provide most of the world’s reliable energy. Frontieras unlocks the intrinsic value from coal, the world’s most abundant hydrocarbon. This technology enables and expands coal’s capacity to continue to be a foundation for industrial, transportation, residential, and commercial sectors.
Frontieras will completely redefine the entire sector of coal utilization.
Economic Use Case and Capital Raise (Economic): To advance society, innovation is critical. Energy is a core platform for innovation and referred to as part of the “necessity market” just like clean air and water. The introduction of artificial intelligence would not be possible without the use of affordable, abundant, and available energy. Earlier this month, Frontieras successfully closed out a direct retail public offering in conjunction with its institutional efforts. On December 3rd, Frontieras secured a USD 150M equity investment commitment from GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (“GEM“) in the form of a Share Subscription Facility (SSF).
The political tailwinds that Frontieras is experiencing allows it to take a significant step forward as a company. The Trump Administration’s leadership is dismantling several regulatory policies that pandered to a woke society — including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and now discredited green policies.
These perspectives on the global energy market are my own. If you are interested in learning more about Frontieras, its FASForm technology, or the Frontieras management team, please visit www.frontieras.com.