On Thursday, August 13, 2026 the American Energy Alliance joined with 24 other free market advocacy groups in sending a letter to key members of the Trump administration, including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Department Of War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, commending the administration for extending the Jones Act waivers.

Enacting Jones Act waivers for the transportation...

Oil majors warn  of a continuing tight market for petroleum products due to a lack of global refinery capacity as the Ukraine and Iran wars have reduced the operations of refineries in Russia and the Middle East. In both Europe and the United States, refineries have shuttered due to onerous regulations and government policies. The Trump administration is considering reopening closed oil refineries, including the St. Croix refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands, to address high gasoline and...

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) , the renewable fuel standard (RFS), a federal program requiring the use of biofuels in gasoline supplies, has not lowered gasoline prices at the pump nor significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the biofuels meeting the standard are composed of corn-based ethanol, which has few environmental advantages compared to gasoline. Further, gasoline prices outside of the Midwest, where most of the corn is grown, likely increased...

Qatar Energy, the state-owned national petroleum and natural gas company of Qatar, has purchased 33 U.S. liquefied natural gas cargoes worth about $1 billion this year to maintain deliveries to key Asian customers after the Iran war halted Qatari exports through the Strait of Hormuz. This compares to a total of four cargoes last year. Twenty-eight deliveries have arrived, and five are en route to South Korea, Taiwan, Bangladesh, India and Japan. Qatar Energy declared force majeure  on its...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 phased out hefty solar and wind tax credits created under former President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in 2022. But instead of phasing out battery storage tax credits along with the wind and solar tax credits, the OBBBA phases them out much later — in 2036— which solar developers are now capitalizing on by adding battery storage components to new builds, allowing them to keep earning lucrative clean energy tax credits...

On Thursday, August 6, 2026 the American Energy Alliance joined with 20 other free market advocacy groups in sending a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in opposition to Section 12501 of the Agricultural Act of 2026. More information regarding the harms of Section 12501, which would permanently authorize year-round E15, can be found in a recent brief prepared by the Institute for Energy Research. The  full text of the...

President Trump wants to end U.S. reliance on Chinese critical minerals by January 1, 2027, but it is unlikely American miners and processors will be ready by then. The Trump administration has spent tens of billions of dollars on nearly 150 minerals companies  to loosen China’s hold on supply chains for weapons and other strategic products essential for the nation. The January 1, 2027, deadline is the date under federal regulations to ‌stop purchasing rare earths, magnets, tungsten,...

The European Commission published proposals  ​to start applying costs on emissions from ​international flights departing Europe and landing in countries up ​to 5,000 kilometers from the continent’s geographic center (Frankfurt, Germany) starting in 2029. This is part of the EU’s climate policy and would capture emissions from flights to hubs in Turkey and ​the Middle East but exclude direct flights from Europe to the United States and to key areas in Asia. Despite the United...

Germany plans to scale back renewable-energy subsidies  as the country overhauls its funding system, seeking to reduce energy transition costs and address growing pressure on the electricity grid. The government is proposing to limit financial support for new solar and wind projects in areas where electricity networks are already congested. Germany’s renewable energy expansion, driven by subsidies, has outpaced grid development, creating challenges for electricity transmission and...

The European Union (EU) will slow the reduction to its carbon dioxide emission caps that are part of its Emissions Trading System (ETS) over the next decade, giving industry more time to develop and implement new technologies while keeping to its goal for reaching climate neutrality by 2050 and reaching an interim goal to reduce carbon emissions by 90% by 2040 from 1990 levels. The EU is overhauling its Emissions Trading System (ETS)  to give industries like steel and cement more time to...