Biden Sets His Crosshairs On Your Family’s Gas Furnace

The Biden administration finalized national efficiency rules for residential gas furnaces, which will require non-weatherized gas furnaces and those used in mobile homes to achieve a 95 percent annual fuel utilization efficiency standard by late 2028. That is, manufacturers would only be allowed to sell furnaces that convert at least 95 percent of fuel into heat. The […]

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If You Like Your Water Heater, You Can Keep It…

The Biden administration is proposing to tighten energy efficiency standards for new residential water heaters–the second-largest energy-using appliances in most households. Heating and cooling are the largest residential use of energy with water heating accounting for about 13 percent of both annual residential energy use and consumer utility costs. If finalized, the proposal would take […]

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The Unregulated Podcast #135: Somewhat Understated Style

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the widening 2024 presidential field, high jinks in the House, and more headlines from the week. Links: (GOP) Rebel Rebels. Republicans make waves on the floor. Tube rule on gas stove ban (Energy) Oil prices steady as economic fears offset Saudi production […]

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New York State Opens New Front In War On Gas Appliances

New York will become the first state to pass a law banning natural-gas and other fossil-fuel hookups in new buildings on its way to meeting President Biden’s net zero carbon goals and the state’s own targets for greenhouse-gas reduction. The New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, passed in 2019, calls for a reduction in economy-wide […]

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The Unregulated Podcast #126: Opening Day

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the highlights from a busy week in Washington and their thoughts on the new season of Major League Baseball. Links: Zycher testimony Governor Gavin’s Big Oil Bill LA Times Biden’s WOTUS tanks in Senate We Own the Science Rep. Gary Palmer Calls […]

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Despite “Environmentalist” Hysteria, America’s Oil & Gas Industries Are Among The Cleanest In The World

AEA’s sister organization, The Institute for Energy Research, has released a new report comparing the environmental quality of the major oil-producing countries. For many years there has been a political movement centered in North America and Europe seeking to halt oil and gas production in the countries of those regions. Proponents claim this effort is […]

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California’s Anti-Energy Mandates Catch Up To Consumers This Winter

Nationwide, wholesale natural gas prices have fallen about 50 percent since the end of October. But, the opposite trend has emerged in California, where prices have risen 63 percent. Colder weather increased demand while maintenance on an interstate pipeline reduced supply. That along with reduced natural gas inventories in the region made for a very tight natural gas […]

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Biden’s War On Gas Appliances Is Just Beginning

The hubbub about banning indoor gas stoves that Biden’s Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) suggested last month and which was poo-pooed by the White House, saying President Biden did not support the ban, continues. Now, Biden’s Department of Energy is setting energy efficiency standards for consumer cooking appliances that would ban most indoor gas stoves. […]

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Biden Administration Announces Intent To Ban Gas Stoves

A Commissioner of President Biden’s Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC) wants a ban on indoor gas stoves. Richard Trumka Jr., a Biden commissioner on the CSPC, told Bloomberg the ban is justified because gas stoves increase respiratory problems such as asthma among children, which is a myth promoted by environmentalists whose real agenda is not to reduce asthma but to […]

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