New Initiative Encourages Lawmakers to Eliminate Handouts for Big Wind WASHINGTON -- Today, the American Energy Alliance launched www.EndWindWelfare.org —a resource and activist hub aimed at eliminating the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC). With this new tool, which includes a legislative tracker and an action center, AEA will encourage lawmakers to support efforts to end this taxpayer-funded handout. One feature of the hub is a video illustrating how the PTC is tied to President...
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A debate in Washington over the reauthorization of the Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has brought up the often overlooked topic of federal land management. Many Americans may not know just how much land the US government owns. The federal government owns roughly 643 million acres of surface lands, tens of millions acres more of subsurface lands and 1.76 billion acres in the outer continental shelf (OCS) off our coast. The combined roughly 2.46 billion acres is larger, by comparison,...
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As with any suggestion of a change in the status quo in Washington, my call for the establishment of an Energy & Natural Resources Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives (a position which I have held for over five years) has been met with some reservation. I am happy to continue the dialogue about why this is long overdue and welcome others to join the conversation. Representative Ed Whitfield recently announced plans to retire from Congress at the end of this term. Whitfield, who...
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Congress will soon vote on H.R. 702, a bill to lift the ban on oil exports. The American Energy Alliance supports ending the oil export ban and urges all Members of Congress vote in favor for H.R. 702. The oil export ban is an outdated and economically damaging policy. The statute is a relic from the 1970s. Technological advances, specifically in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, have given way to a domestic oil boom. Since 2008, U.S. oil production has increased more than 80...
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WASHINGTON -- The American Energy Alliance applauds Rep. Mike Pompeo's Ratepayer Subsidization Protection Amendment, which was adopted today into H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015. This amendment promotes transparency by requiring utility regulators to study the effects that certain electricity-related subsidies have on ratepayers. AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement:

"We applaud Rep. Pompeo for recognizing and highlighting...

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Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner announced that he would resign at the end of October. As a result, many in Congress are calling for new leadership to implement procedural changes to the House. For example, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes suggested that a new leadership team should implement new conference rules that would make the chamber more functional. And in a letter to House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Rep. Peter Roskam issued words...
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Budget Agreement Sunsets Energy Tax Credits; More Work to be Done on REPS WASHINGTON -- The North Carolina legislature recently reached an ​agreement on a budget that phases out tax credits for industrial solar and other forms of more expensive, less reliable energy production. Known as the Renewable Energy Tax Credit, this subsidy harms North Carolina jobs and economic growth. In recent weeks, AEA led a coalition of local leaders and business owners to shine a light on the harmful...
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WASHINGTON -- American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement after Hillary Clinton came out against the Keystone XL Pipeline: "Hillary Clinton’s statement on the Keystone pipeline gives us a rare window into how she would lead as our nation’s chief executive. It took Hillary six years, eight months, and a struggling presidential campaign to declare what we already knew--that she and her boss were never going to approve this routine infrastructure project...
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As Congress begins to tackle a plethora of legislative issues this fall, one particular issue has garnered broad support on both sides of the aisle: lifting the decades-old ban on oil exports. Representatives across the country have realized that the ban not only inhibits economic growth, but also prevents free trade and does nothing to advance energy security both at home and abroad. Rep. Barton has introduced H.R 702 , which would end the ban on oil exports, and other measures are being...
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Last month, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her “Plan for a Vibrant Rural America.” Despite Clinton’s claims, her plan will harm rural families. Moreover, by mandating expensive transportation fuels, Clinton’s plan amounts to a national gas tax. Clinton Flip-Flopped on Ethanol “Gas Tax” As a Senator, Clinton once adamantly opposed an early version of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires refiners to blend rising amounts of biofuel into gasoline....
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