In the Pipeline

This week, the American Energy Alliance released its 2024 American Energy Scorecard for the United States Senate. The AEA scorecard scores voting and co-sponsorship decisions on legislation affecting energy policy in order to educate voters on how their representatives vote and hold members accountable for their voting records. This year’s scorecard compiles 27 votes from the Senators who will be finishing their latest term in the 118^th Congress.  Unfortunately, only 5 Senators achieved a...

This week the American Energy Alliance released its 2024 American Energy Scorecard for the House of Representatives. The AEA Scorecard scores voting and co-sponsorship decisions on legislation affecting energy policy in order to educate voters on how their representatives vote and hold members accountable for voting records. This year’s scorecard compiles 21 votes from the 118^th Congress.  90 House members achieved a 100% score.

The following core principles guide the American Energy...

Vice President Kamala Harris has been staying quietly lately leading to speculation as to what her positions are on a number of important issues. The American Energy Alliance has compiled a collection clips highlighting her most outrageous and controversial policy proposals for America's energy.

• 250 Ways Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas
• Candidate Profile: Kamala Harris on Energy
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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase. Since Biden and Harris took office, their administration, and their Democratic allies have taken over 250 actions deliberately designed to make it harder to produce energy here in America.  A list of those actions appears below. A PDF of the list is available to download here.

On January 20, 2021,

1. Besides canceling the Keystone XL pipeline,
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With Americans still feeling the pressure of inflation, high prices at the gas pump have become even more devastating.  Despite being the seventh largest producer of crude oil in the United States, California boasts the second-highest average cost per gallon of gas in the nation.  Additionally, in a petition from the American Petroleum Institute sent to the Supreme Court in 2023, which asked to overturn the overshore fracking moratorium, it was estimated that there are 10 billion barrels of...

On August 6, 2024, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate. As a Congressman representing Minnesota’s First District, and more recently as Governor of the State of Minnesota, Walz has consistently pursued policies that threaten the ability of people to access affordable and reliable energy.

Early Career in U.S. House of Representatives

In 2009, Walz backed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that would...

The Biden-Harris administration announced plans to phase out the use of single-use plastics from all federal operations by 2035, as part of its strategy to deal with plastic pollution. While this falls short of Vice-President Harris's pledge to ban all single use plastics , it indicates she is serious about moving in that direction. The phase-out would start with a goal to end federal procurement of single-use plastics from food service operations, events, and packaging by 2027. It would...

Tim Walz, V.P. Kamala Harris’s choice as her vice presidential running mate and Governor of Minnesota, has one of the most extreme state-level records on “clean energy” in the United States, rivaling Governor Newsom in California. In 2023, Walz signed into law a target for Minnesota to get 100 percent of its power from zero-carbon sources  by 2040, having signed legislation prioritizing the creation of “greener” plants in areas that previously featured fossil-fuel plants.  Coal has...

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ claim that she no longer supports a ban on fracking contrasts with what she said five years ago. Just before she dropped out of the 2020 presidential race in 2019 and joined President Joe Biden’s ticket, at a CNN town hall, she made it clear that she very much supports banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking}. She said , “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking and starting with what we can do on day one around public lands,...

Construction of U.S. solar-manufacturing plants by Chinese companies is surging, putting China in position to dominate the industry, as other American factories struggle to compete despite federal subsidies.  Chinese companies will have at least 20 gigawatts’ worth of annual solar panel production capacity on U.S. soil within the next year, enough to serve about half the U.S. market. The group includes seven companies  backed by Chinese firms including Jinko Solar, Trina Solar, JA Solar,...