On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss tariffs, budgetary prospects, and what's next for the Republican controlled Congress.

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• House passes Senate Budget
• Anonymous Sources Say Bessent Taking the Lead in Trade Negotiations
• Trump is going to lose the gamers. Nintendo Switch 2 Delayed
• Trump Exempts Phones, Chips, Computers from Tariffs
• China moves to cut off rare earth exports
• China halts US LNG imports
• Senate Squish Squad
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President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to boost the nation’s coal industry. The orders include efforts to save coal plants that were likely to be retired, drawing on existing emergency authority from the Federal Power Act that allows the Energy Secretary to direct any power plant to keep operating. Other emergency statutes enable the federal government to waive environmental rules implemented by states and direct  the U.S. attorney general to identify and take action against...

WASHINGTON DC (4/9/25) –  The Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources held a vote today to consider the nominations of Kate MacGregor to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior and James Danly to be Deputy Secretary of Energy. Both nominees were approved by the committee, and their nominations now move to the Senate floor for a final vote. 

Tom Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance, issued the following statement:

“Congratulations to Kate and James on their...

President Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), provided green energy with huge subsidies costing taxpayers well over $1 trillion, despite being estimated to cost $369 billion  by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). One reason is that there is essentially no cap on the freebies awarded to green energy because the national emissions test used to sunset the law’s tax credits is unlikely to be reached. No matter how many windmills and solar plants are built,...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss Liberation Day and what it means for energy markets, the latest from Capitol Hill, and run down the ways Team Trump is working to unleash American energy.

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• Liberation Day
• The “Filibuster”
• Special Elections End in a Draw
• No Toilet Paper or Privacy: Chaos in the Federal Office
• 50 Actions the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Have Taken to Unleash Our Energy Potential
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The American Energy Alliance supports H.J. Res. 24, providing for congressional disapproval of Department of Energy energy efficiency standards for walk-in coolers and freezers.

Energy efficiency standards were created 50 years ago when politicians feared we were running out of domestic energy sources and dangerously reliant on the Middle East. That world is long past and the U.S. is the world's leading natural gas, as well as leading oil, producer. Continued aggressive use of this...

The American Energy Alliance supports S.J. Res. 4 providing for congressional disapproval of the Department of Energy rules on gas-fired tankless water heaters.

The Dept. of Energy water heater rule is an obsolete relic of another time. Energy efficiency standards were created 50 years ago when politicians feared we were running out of domestic energy sources and dangerously reliant on the Middle East. That world is long past and the U.S. is the world leading natural gas, as well as leading...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is complying with President Trump’s executive order to remove barriers to energy development in Alaska. Secretary Burgum is implementing plans to  open up more acreage for oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and lift restrictions on building a liquified natural gas (LNG) pipeline and the Ambler mining road. Interior plans to reopen 82% of the NPR-A for leasing for development and...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the latest news from the White House and the flailing response from the Democrats.

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• 50 Actions the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Have Taken to Unleash Our Energy Potential
• WSJ Editorial
• Europe Must Revive Patriotism
• Are the Dems in Despair
• Texas “Dispatchable Power Credits”
• How Much Does Big Oil Owe Californians?
• SCOTUS Rejects Climate Suits
• Schneider...

Congress is considering legislation that would end Biden era regulatory overreach designed to make refrigerators unaffordable for American families all in the name of stoping climate change.

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