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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We don’t usually include press releases in the pipeline, but this is too delicious.  I’m betting Senator Inhofe puts him on the canvas in the fifth, and the ref calls it somewhere around the eighth EPW (12/12/11) reports: Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today accepted Ralph Nader's invitation to debate Congressman Markey on global warming. .."I would welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of global warming with...
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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 reduced economic growth and rising energy prices.  Today's award is shared by 1997 Nobel prize winner and current energy secretary, Steven Chu, and former senator and current interior secretary, Ken Salazar. "Every time the American people...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Sorting through the list of potential recipients for the inaugural "Lump of Coal" Award was a laborious process for the judges at the American Energy Alliance this year.  But undeterred in the quest to find America's naughtiest politicians, policy makers, and other professionals who just don't understand how energy markets work, the judges emerged from their frack-friendly conference room convinced that the second award this year should be shared between West Virginia...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- Leading off the 2011 list of naughty policymakers, politicians, and other professionals who have demonstrated exemplary failures to understand or promote policies that generate affordable American energy is this year's first recipient, the 43rd president of the United States, the Honorable George Walker Bush of Texas. "When it comes to offering opportunities for American energy exploration, President Bush failed to meet the standard set by Bill Clinton, of all people....
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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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For Immediate Release AEA to award "Lump of Coal" to naughty policymakers, politicians, and others who have hindered American energy development WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance has been keeping a list of the naughty policymakers, politicians, and other professionals who -- by their individual and occasionally collective efforts -- have slowed American energy development through bad policy and foolish ideas.  Beginning Thursday, December 8, 2011, AEA will award the 2011...
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Let the great debate begin — IER releases energy inventory report that attacks the narrative energy scarcity Powerline Blog (12/6/11) reports: For a long time, the Left has gotten away with underselling America’s energy resources. The old chestnut that the U.S. uses 25% of the world’s oil but only has 2% to 3% of the world’s oil reserves has been repeated endlessly by Barack Obama and many others. This claim fooled millions of people who didn’t understand that in the U.S.,...
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