Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, but its petroleum industry, which was once very productive, has been reduced to a fraction of its former capacity due to mismanagement, underinvestment due to failed government policies, and international sanctions. Rebuilding Venezuela’s oil output from 900,000 barrels per day — less than 1% of global oil supply — to its former productivity will be a challenge and take years, billions of dollars, and political stability.

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California is keeping the Ivanpah solar plant operating due to “reliability” and the state’s “green” energy mandates, despite concerns from the private sector and the federal government. The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility was set to shut down in 2026  after failing to meet its energy targets. Despite receiving $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees, nearly 75% of the facility’s cost, it struggled to generate power and had to rely on natural gas to operate rather than the sun. In...

As the Washington Examiner explains, California’s newest tax proposal is basically a subscription service that bills monthly for how often a car is driven. According to KMPH 26, the state has been paying for road maintenance through an ever-increasing gas tax that covers about 80% of the state’s road maintenance . At the same time, the state wants people to transition to electric vehicles (EVs) to help meet its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. As more people switch to electric and...

The American Energy Alliance supports H.R. 4776 the SPEED Act.

The SPEED Act makes important modifications to the National Environmental Policy Act, including codifying principles of the decision in the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, CO  Supreme Court case. These reforms will help reduce the harms and abuse of the NEPA litigation process and allow important infrastructure to be built in a more timely and cost-effective process. Abuse of the NEPA process impedes all...

The American Energy Alliance supports H.J. Res. 131 providing for congressional disapproval of the 2024 BLM leasing plan for the Alaska coastal plain.

The Alaska coastal plain has long been set aside by Congress for oil and gas development. In 2017 Congress specifically mandated leasing in the coastal plain. The Biden administration's BLM plan placed so many limitations on coastal plain leasing that it amounted to a de facto ban on development, contradicted the express will of Congress....

The American Energy Alliance supports S.J. Res. 89 providing for congressional disapproval of the BLM Buffalo field office resource management plan of November 2024.

This BLM decision rushed through during the lame duck of the Biden administration was contrary to the will of Congress, which has long authorized federal lands in the Powder River Basin to be developed as part of Congress's directive that federal lands be open for energy exploration and production. This restrictive plan...

The American Energy Alliance supports H.R. 1949 the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025, which would streamline the approval process for LNG export approvals.

The requirement for a special permit from the Department of Energy for exports of LNG is a relic of a time when we feared that the United States was running out of natural gas. The world has long since changed, we are now the world's largest producer of natural gas and one of the largest exporters, and we have vast...

The Trump administration finalized plans to open the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to potential oil and gas drilling and is planning an oil and gas lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has called for nominations for areas to auction in the NPR-A, the first step in the leasing process. The One Big Beautiful Bill, passed this summer, requires the BLM to hold  at least four lease...

The American Energy Alliance supports H.J. Res. 130, providing for congressional disapproval of a certain resource management plan in Wyoming; H.J. Res. 131, providing for congressional disapproval of a BLM leasing plan for the Alaska coastal plain; and S.J. Res. 80, providing for congressional disapproval of a BLM resource plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

All three of these BLM decisions sought to shut down energy development on federal lands in pursuit of the Biden...

The Trump administration canceled the proposed Esmeralda 7 Solar Project in Nevada that would have been among the world’s largest solar power facilities and the largest in the United States. According to UPI News , the 6.2-gigawatt project would have built seven solar power-generation projects with battery storage within the Esmeralda site that would have occupied 118,000 acres of land in Nevada’s Esmeralda County and about 30 miles west of Tonopah and 270 miles northwest of Las Vegas....