AEA Comments on EPA Proposal Concerning Boosted Renewable Fuel Quotas

WASHINGTON – American Energy Alliance President Thomas J. Pyle has issued the following statement on the EPA proposal to raise renewable fuel blending requirements by 3.1 percent: "Today's proposal ignores the underlying problems of the Renewable Fuel Standard. This fundamentally broken Washington-knows-best regulation causes millions of American families and businesses to pay more at the pump. "Doubling-down on the broken and failed RFS by raising the renewable fuel blending...
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AEA Commends Dismissal of 'Frivolous' Climate Lawsuits

WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance commends Judge Alsup and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for their dismissal of the climate change lawsuits filed by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against the five major energy producers. The ruling correctly concluded the complaint of climate change to be beyond the proper purview of the courts. Thomas J. Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance (AEA) made the following statement: "These lawsuits...
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New Survey: Voters (Still) Find Vehicle Subsidies "Unfair"

WASHINGTON – American Energy Alliance has released the results of a nationwide survey of 1002 likely voters (margin of error, 3.1%) conducted in early June on the topic of electric vehicles. The findings include:
  • A sizable majority of voters (72%) said they did not trust the federal government to make decisions about what kinds of cars or transportation technologies should be subsidized or mandated.​​​​
  • Despite a generally positive attitude towards electric vehicles, most...

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AEA Urges Dismissal of Mayor de Blasio's Climate ‘Shakedown’

WASHINGTON – Today, the following statement was released by Thomas J. Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance (AEA) regarding energy producers’ motion to dismiss New York City’s climate change lawsuit at a hearing before Judge John Keenen in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York: “New York’s liberal mayor Bill de Blasio has been an enthusiastic advocate of more residential growth along New York’s waterfront while at the same time attempting to...
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AEA Calls for Full RFS Repeal Ahead of This Week’s White House Meeting

  • 05/07/18
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  • Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Energy Alliance launched a multi-state digital ad initiative urging Washington to repeal the failed Renewable Fuel Standard  as special interests seek more handouts within this broken and outdated big government policy. “For more than a decade – as our nation’s energy outlook has positively transformed thanks to free market competition and private sector ingenuity, not government’s heavy hand – American consumers, family farmers, and refiners...
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Free-Market Coalition Supports Fuel Economy Reform, Fairness for American Drivers

  • 04/02/18
  • AEA
  • Press Releases
WASHINGTON – This afternoon the American Energy Alliance and ten co-signing organizations sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt expressing support for the joint effort to reform the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program in favor of lower costs and consumer choice. “The entire mandate is a relic of the narrative of scarcity. The surge in American energy production has rendered it moot.  Moreover, it should be clear to everyone that...
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The State of American Energy Is Strong

  • 01/30/18
  • AEA
  • Press Releases
WASHINGTON – American Energy Alliance President Thomas J. Pyle has issued the following statement in response to President Trump's State of the Union Address delivered Tuesday, January 30, 2018: "Tonight, President Trump declared an end to the war on American energy. As promised, his administration has put American families ahead of the special interests in the "keep it in the ground" movement. This past year, his administration has begun to dismantle the failed energy policies of...
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No Carve-Outs for Politically-Favored Industries

  • 12/01/17
  • AEA
  • Press Releases
WASHINGTON – This afternoon Thomas J. Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance, sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressing the organization's opposition to special tax treatment for the wind and solar industries vis-à-vis the Base Erosion Anti-Abuse Tax provision in the Senate tax reform bill. The text of the letter can be read below: Dear Majority Leader McConnell, I am writing to urge you to oppose an unfair carve-out for the wind and solar...
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AEA Endorses MINER Act

  • 11/30/17
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  • Press Releases
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, November 30, Thomas J. Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance, sent a letter to Congressman Paul Gosar endorsing the Minnesota's Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act (MINER Act). The MINER Act reflects AEA's commitment to enabling the American people to access and develop all the natural resources at our disposal. Pyle's letter can be read in full below: Dear Chairman Gosar: I write to you in support of H.R. 3905, the Minnesota's...
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AEA Statement on the Bears Ears National Monument Interim Report

  • 06/12/17
  • AEA
  • Press Releases
WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle has issued the following statement regarding Secretary Zinke’s 45-day interim report on Bears Ears National Monument: “The Antiquities Act allows the president to designate archaeological sites and historical landmarks as off-limits to development, but stipulates that the protected space shall encompass ‘the smallest area compatible with proper care and management.’ Barack Obama stepped beyond that boundary with his...
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