Rep. Gabe Vasquez is Out of Step With His District

  • 10/28/24
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  • Blog

Last month, the American Energy Alliance released the 2024 American Energy Scorecard for the House of Representatives.  The AEA scorecard scores voting and co-sponsorship decisions on legislation affecting energy and environmental policy, educating voters on how their representatives vote and holding members accountable for those decisions.  

The scorecard is guided by principles such as: 

  • Promoting affordable, abundant, and reliable energy
  • Expanding economic opportunity and...

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10 Questions for Vice President Kamala Harris Ahead of Her Town Hall in Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON DC (10/23/24) – Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will be participating in a Town Hall Forum this evening hosted by CNN in Pennsylvania, the second largest natural gas producer in the country. In advance of this event, the American Energy Alliance has prepared ten questions for Anderson Cooper to ask Vice President Harris:

  1. Your environmental allies have proudly boasted  about your history of “standing up to Big Oil.” The oil and gas...

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Grid Operators Take Legal Action Against Biden-Harris Attacks On Affordable Energy

  • 09/30/24
  • IER
  • Blog

On Friday, September 13th, four regional transmission organizations (RTOs) filed an Amicus Brief to the D.C. Court of Appeals , contesting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal and new natural gas power plants. They requested that the Court send the rules back to the EPA for reconsideration. The four organizations—PJM, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), Southwest Power Pool (SPP), and the Electric...


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Biden-Harris LNG Pause Wrecking Havoc On American Energy Infrastructure

  • 09/26/24
  • IER
  • Blog

It’s been nearly a year since the Biden-Harris administration officially paused approvals for new LNG export projects. Analysts at Poten & Partners indicate that this ongoing uncertainty is leading to increased costs and project delays. Lengthened timelines, rising engineering, procurement, and construction expenses, along with methane emissions fees, are impacting projects awaiting approval or final investment decisions. The broader U.S. LNG industry is also feeling the effects , with...


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Biden Backs Harris' Attack On Plastics

  • 09/17/24
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  • Blog

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States, a leading global producer of plastics, will now back a global treaty aimed at curbing the annual production of new plastics, which is expected to decrease U.S. manufacturing output. Initially, the U.S. favored a framework where individual nations would devise their own strategies , akin to the Paris Agreement, rather than imposing production limits, which was the European negotiators’ preference. This shift from a more decentralized...


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2024 American Energy Scorecard Senate Results

  • 09/11/24
  • AEA
  • Blog

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 118th Congress.  Unfortunately, only 5 Senators achieved a...


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2024 American Energy Scorecard for the House of Representatives

  • 09/04/24
  • AEA
  • Blog

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 118th Congress.  90 House members achieved a 100% score.

The following core principles guide the American Energy...


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Kamala Harris On Energy, In Her Own Words

  • 08/21/24
  • AEA
  • Blog

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSIfBixxt4

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250 Ways Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas

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,
  2. ...

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Reminder: California’s High Gas Prices are Because of Bad Policy

  • 08/19/24
  • AEA
  • Blog

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...


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