How Institutional Failure Turned Sulfur into a Global Crisis

Macdonald Amoah, Payne Institute Senior Research Fellow Jahara Matisek, and Director Morgan Bazilian write about how the United States and its allies have policies to help ensure the delivery and security of food, munitions, oil, LNG, and semiconductors. Yet no comparable strategy exists for the chemical that connects and underpins them all. Sulfur and its derivative, sulfuric acid.  July 1, 2026.