Joe Biden Coming For Your Appliances

The Biden administration recently unveiled regulations targeting multiple home and commercial appliances, which will impact the pocketbooks and comfort of millions of Americans. Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) finalized new energy efficiency standards for residential refrigerators and freezers and proposed standards for commercial fans and blowers. DOE’s standards for refrigerators and freezers will be implemented between 2029 and […]

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Biden’s Regulatory War On American Energy

Biden’s climate and tax bill, the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, and last year’s infrastructure law will supposedly cut emissions by 40 percent by 2030—close to Mr. Biden’s goal of cutting emissions roughly in half by then, according to Biden’s Department of Energy. To close the gap between DOE’s estimates and Biden’s promises, the White House intends to […]

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Propagandists Run With Flawed Stove Study

Based on a study of a paltry 53 homes in California, researchers with Oakland-based Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSEHE) and Stanford University estimated that stoves emit between 0.8 and 1.3 percent of the natural gas they consume as unburned methane with three-quarters of these emissions occurring when the devices are shut off, suggesting leaky fittings and connections with gas […]

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The Unregulated Podcast #58: Comrade Komarovsky Secretary Giggles

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss Biden’s attempt to nominate an outright Marxist to regulate America’s banking sector and the administration’s tone-deaf response to rising gas prices. Links: Biden Is Looking at Possible SPR Release: Granholm Biden on McAuliffe’s defeat WATCH: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos outlines a “brutal new […]

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Protection and Production: EPA MATS Rule Restores Balance in Cost-Benefit Analysis

President Trump and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler continue to rack up regulatory fixes to the mess they inherited from the Obama administration. WASHINGTON DC (April 16, 2020) – The American Energy Alliance (AEA) announced its support for the final updated Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) rule released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today. MATS […]

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Bringing Guidance Out of Darkness Executive Order Sheds Light on Rarely Seen Regulatory Abuse

WASHINGTON DC (October 10, 2019) – Today, Thomas Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance, issued the following statement in support of the “Bringing Guidance out of the Darkness” executive order signed by President Trump. “Only Congress has the ability to make laws. Unfortunately, Congress has abdicated its responsibility to update our existing energy and […]

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States Should Reject NACAA’s Calls to Implement Carbon Regulation

Today, the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA) held a press call to discuss a new document that attempts to pressure and mislead states into implementing the EPA’s carbon regulation, or “clean power plan.” AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement on NACAA’s efforts: “The NACAA, which has received millions of dollars in grants from […]

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Misleading on American Manufacturing

Those of us involved in policy debates over the energy sector know that it is hardly a fair fight. The people advocating greater government intervention routinely use phrases such as “clean energy,” “green energy,” “greenhouse gas pollution,” and other such loaded terms. It’s difficult to have a rational discussion about carbon taxes or chemical plant […]

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