Press Releases

For Immediate Release February 23, 2012 "If the president is serious about our energy future, he would put a restraining order on the Department of the Interior to stop the administration's job-killing embargo on American energy." -- AEA President Thomas Pyle WASHINGTON D.C. -- President Barack Obama delivered today a widely-anticipated speech outlining his administration's energy policies, which include provisions that raise taxes on energy producers, increase dependence on foreign...
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For Immediate Release February 21, 2012 WASHINGTON D.C. --  The American Energy Alliance released Tuesday a video  telling the story of Craig, Colo., a small town of approximately 10,000 people and home to the Centennial State's largest coal-fired power generating plant.  But due to Colorado's energy mandate that requires 30 percent of the state's electricity generation come from wind, solar, and other renewable sources by the year 2020, and an increasingly hostile regulatory regime at...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Now in the twelfth and final day of the 2011 Lump of Coal Award announcements, the American Energy Alliance has concluded this year's tribute to the politicians, policymakers, and others who have proven the worst enemies of affordable American energy. Today's recipient is the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. In a late decision on Thursday evening, the "Lump of Coal" Awards Committee determined that the president's unique hostilities to conventional...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance continued its inaugural tradition of awarding a "Lump of Coal" to the biggest enemies of affordable domestic energy production by announcing today's recipient: former House Speaker and current Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). "Rather than enumerate all the reasons why AEA believes Nancy Pelosi is right near the top of the list of affordable energy's enemies, we've decided to let today's recipient speak...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance knows that Senator Harry Reid already left town for his Christmas vacation, with no intention of returning to Washington until next year.  Nevertheless, the American Energy Alliance has selected Senator Reid as today's recipient of the 2011 "Lump of Coal" Award for his unyielding opposition to affordable energy for American consumers. "Senator Harry Reid left town last weekend with the bipartisan-passed Keystone XL pipeline provision hanging...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the nation's capital, and the seasonal waft of wood fires burning and chestnuts roasting is filling the rarefied air on Capitol Hill.  But in the shadowy enclaves of the behemoth national headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Lisa Jackson has prepared an old fashioned, Whoville-killing, Grinch-style regulation to increase the cost of electricity and bankrupt American job creators.  In...
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For Immediate Release: WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance announced today the next 2011 "Lump of Coal" Award, which is given to the policymakers, politicians, and other professionals who through their collective and individual opposition to affordable domestic energy deserve recognition by the nation's leading advocate of free market energy solutions.  Today's recipient is United States Congressman Henry Waxman-Markey. "Congressman Waxman-Markey stands head and shoulders...
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For Immediate Release WASHINGTON D.C. -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed today the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act (H.R. 3630), which included key provisions to force the Obama administration to make a decision regarding the Keystone XL pipeline and limit the regulatory burdens that the Environment Protection Agency wishes to impose on boilers and waste incinerators.  AEA's President Tom Pyle released the following statement after the vote: "The single greatest...
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For Immediate Release WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance announced today the latest recipients of the 2011 inaugural "Lump of Coal" Awards, given Dec. 8-23 to policy makers, politicians and other professionals who are most responsible for ideas that inhibit economic growth and result in higher energy prices.  Today's award is shared by the Grand Poobahs of green energy propaganda, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Vanity Fair contributing editor, Douglas Rice  of...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, the United States House of Representatives passed the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which returns to Congress the responsibility for approving major regulations affecting the American economy.  This bipartisan measure would require a majority of both chambers of Congress to approve any regulation costing more than $100 million. AEA President Tom Pyle released the following statement upon House passage of...
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