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On Friday, September 13th, four regional transmission organizations (RTOs) filed an Amicus Brief to the D.C. Court of Appeals , contesting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal and new natural gas power plants. They requested that the Court send the rules back to the EPA for reconsideration. The four organizations—PJM, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), Southwest Power Pool (SPP), and the Electric...

It’s been nearly a year since the Biden-Harris administration officially paused approvals for new LNG export projects. Analysts at Poten & Partners indicate that this ongoing uncertainty is leading to increased costs and project delays. Lengthened timelines, rising engineering, procurement, and construction expenses, along with methane emissions fees, are impacting projects awaiting approval or final investment decisions. The broader U.S. LNG industry is also feeling the effects , with...

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States, a leading global producer of plastics, will now back a global treaty aimed at curbing the annual production of new plastics, which is expected to decrease U.S. manufacturing output. Initially, the U.S. favored a framework where individual nations would devise their own strategies , akin to the Paris Agreement, rather than imposing production limits, which was the European negotiators’ preference. This shift from a more decentralized...

This week, the American Energy Alliance released its 2024 American Energy Scorecard for the United States Senate. The AEA scorecard scores voting and co-sponsorship decisions on legislation affecting energy policy in order to educate voters on how their representatives vote and hold members accountable for their voting records. This year’s scorecard compiles 27 votes from the Senators who will be finishing their latest term in the 118^th Congress.  Unfortunately, only 5 Senators achieved a...

This week the American Energy Alliance released its 2024 American Energy Scorecard for the House of Representatives. The AEA Scorecard scores voting and co-sponsorship decisions on legislation affecting energy policy in order to educate voters on how their representatives vote and hold members accountable for voting records. This year’s scorecard compiles 21 votes from the 118^th Congress.  90 House members achieved a 100% score.

The following core principles guide the American Energy...

Vice President Kamala Harris has been staying quietly lately leading to speculation as to what her positions are on a number of important issues. The American Energy Alliance has compiled a collection clips highlighting her most outrageous and controversial policy proposals for America's energy.

• 250 Ways Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas
• Candidate Profile: Kamala Harris on Energy
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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase. Since Biden and Harris took office, their administration, and their Democratic allies have taken over 250 actions deliberately designed to make it harder to produce energy here in America.  A list of those actions appears below. A PDF of the list is available to download here.

On January 20, 2021,

1. Besides canceling the Keystone XL pipeline,
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With Americans still feeling the pressure of inflation, high prices at the gas pump have become even more devastating.  Despite being the seventh largest producer of crude oil in the United States, California boasts the second-highest average cost per gallon of gas in the nation.  Additionally, in a petition from the American Petroleum Institute sent to the Supreme Court in 2023, which asked to overturn the overshore fracking moratorium, it was estimated that there are 10 billion barrels of...

On August 6, 2024, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate. As a Congressman representing Minnesota’s First District, and more recently as Governor of the State of Minnesota, Walz has consistently pursued policies that threaten the ability of people to access affordable and reliable energy.

Early Career in U.S. House of Representatives

In 2009, Walz backed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that would...

The Biden-Harris administration announced plans to phase out the use of single-use plastics from all federal operations by 2035, as part of its strategy to deal with plastic pollution. While this falls short of Vice-President Harris's pledge to ban all single use plastics , it indicates she is serious about moving in that direction. The phase-out would start with a goal to end federal procurement of single-use plastics from food service operations, events, and packaging by 2027. It would...