On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the tentative transition occurring at the White House and Team Biden's race against time to spend every tax-dollar they can.

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• Manchin signals willingness to back Biden's final push on judges
• Trump's Picks
• USC Study: CA Gas Prices Going Up
• Bidirectional Charging
• Meta is cooking with Gas
• Pelosi’s Niece The "Well Paid Climate Whisperer”
• Tweet of the Week
• Statement on...

WASHINGTON DC (11/26/24) – American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement today on the leaders President-elect Trump has nominated to comprise his energy team:

“Throughout his campaign, President Trump expressed his unwavering commitment to American energy, and his selections show how serious he is about unlocking our country’s resource potential. He has chosen strong candidates to comprise his energy team, all of which should instill confidence in...

President-Elect Trump has made it clear that he is not a supporter of offshore wind energy, a stance he reinforced during his interview  with Joe Rogan. Offshore wind, according to Trump, disrupts fishing zones, threatens wildlife such as birds and bats, damages large sections of the ocean floor, jeopardizes the North Atlantic Right Whale’s survival, and burdens Americans with high electricity costs that are unreliable—operating at less than half capacity. Wind power, he argues, requires...

The Northeast region of the United States includes the states of West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, as well as the entirety of New England, which is made up of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.  The Northeast is an important region for fossil fuel production especially for coal and natural gas, which replaced coal as the primary fuel used for electricity generation in the region.  Transporting fuel throughout...

President-elect Donald Trump recently named Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy and founder of the Bettering Human Lives Foundation, as his choice for head of the Department of Energy. Chris Wright sat down for a discussion on the role of energy production in lifting humans out of poverty with the policy team at our sister organization, the Institute for Energy Research on the Plugged In Podcast.* The full episode is available below.

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The Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a federal methane tax for oil and gas drilling operations, set to take effect next year. This rule is part of the broader Inflation Reduction Act , which was passed by Democrats and saw Vice President Harris casting the decisive vote. The new regulation imposes a fee on oil and gas producers who exceed a certain methane emission threshold by venting or flaring the gas rather than capturing it. While the...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the priorities of Team Biden during their waning days in the White House and a few issues that remain outstanding after the election.

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• Kamala's spending spree
• Bob Casey not calling it quits
• Is California getting more Republican?
• Travis Fisher: Nuke The IRA
• It's time for an energy and Natural Resources Committee
• First person fired in the Biden Administration

The Biden-Harris administration has proposed tighter restrictions on oil and gas drilling on federal land across more than 6,500 square miles in the West to supposedly protect a declining bird species—the Greater Sage Grouse—chicken-sized birds known for an elaborate mating ritual. The Biden-Harris Interior Department aims to strengthen protections for the sage grouse beyond the 2015 measures set by the Obama-Biden administration . Those earlier protections limited development across...

WASHINGTON DC (11/12/24) – The Biden-Harris administration is poised to finalize a new methane emissions tax for U.S. oil and gas producers today.

The tax, mandated by President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, was originally outlined but left to the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize. The finalized rule will impose a penalty of $900 per metric ton on methane emissions that exceed a government-set threshold.

AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following...

New Mexico plays a vital role in American energy production, providing a substantial amount of oil and gas from a comparatively smaller population than its neighbor, the number one oil-producing state, Texas.  Accounting for an astounding 13.3% of all U.S. crude oil production in 2022, and increasing to an even 14% in 2023, due to further innovation in fracking, New Mexico consistently plays a key role in American oil and gas production holding about 13% of proved crude oil reserves in the...