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Another Blow to Sensible Energy Policy: President Biden and Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve
Last week, the Biden Administration struck another blow against sensible energy policy by cancelling seven oil and gas leases in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A) using executive regulatory actions. Claiming…
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A Monument to Energy Regression
Earlier this month, President Biden used powers authorized under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to proclaim a vast swath of land in Arizona as a national monument. Unfortunately, Biden’s…
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Millions of U.S. Jobs Are at Risk From Climate Policy: Joe Trotter in Delaware Valley Journal
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director, was featured in the Delaware Valley Journal discussing the harmful impact on the job market with millions…
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Where’s the Beef? Regulatory Barriers to Entry and Competition in Meat Processing: Joe Trotter
Joe Trotter, ALEC’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, testified in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the importance of allowing states to set their own inspection…
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Canadian Wildfires Flood Eastern Seaboard with Smoke and Haze
Anyone living in the northern half of the East Coast has been met with an ominous fog and haze during the last few days. The air is heavy, the visibility…
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China Is Both Supplier and Saboteur of US Electric Grid: Joe Trotter in The Epoch Times
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director, tells The Epoch Times how the US energy infrastructure is vulnerable to Chinese companies operating as suppliers…
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The EPA, Power Plants, and the Chevron Doctrine
Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced yet another plan to shut down America’s fossil fuel power generation capabilities using regulations without any explicit Congressional authorization. If adopted, the…
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Why Biden Admin’s Latest Push for EVs, Wind, and Solar Is Likely Headed to the Supreme Court: Joe Trotter in The Epoch Times
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, recently spoke with The Epoch Times about the EPA’s new proposal to force the United States’ electricity…
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Forestry, Wildfires, and the Good Neighbor Authority
ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director Joe Trotter sat down with the John Locke Foundation’s Jon Sanders and the Mackinac Center for…
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The “Greedflation” Myth and the Real Reasons Behind Higher Grocery Prices: Joe Trotter in The Washington Times
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, recently spoke with The Washington Times about the rise in grocery prices and the recent “greedflation” phenomenon.
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Agriculture’s Essential Ingredient: Natural Gas
Modern agriculture cannot exist without natural gas. As an essential ingredient in nitrogenous fertilizer production, the availability of low-cost natural gas has brought down the cost of nearly every food…
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Virginia and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
The Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative is a carbon tax costing Virginia’s citizens and industries hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Over the last two years alone, it has…
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The Coal Powered Electrification Agenda: Joe Trotter on In The Dugout
ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director Joe Trotter joined Mike Stenhouse on In The Dugout to discuss the realities behind the recent push to shut…
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The Electrification Agenda: Separating Fantasy from Reality
As our reliance on electricity grows due to a mix of market forces and government intervention, our ability to reliably generate it is increasingly diminished by poor policy choices that…
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The Natural Gas Phenomenon
The Washington Post recently reported that ALEC worked with legislators and lobbyists on a new Ohio law that redefines natural gas as green energy. It was a fictional story, but…
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Egg Prices Will Cool if Government Allows Free Market to Work: Joe Trotter in The Washington Times
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, recently told The Washington Times federal government policies are partly to blame for the high price of eggs. The…
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Government Meddling in Energy Markets Leading to Higher Prices for Diesel Fuel: Joe Trotter on NTD News
Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, was featured on NTD News explaining why diesel fuel prices continue to rise and how that is contributing to the nation’s…
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The Policies Driving Up Price of Diesel Fuel: Joe Trotter in The Washington Times
Joe Trotter, the ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, is featured in The Washington Times explaining why diesel prices are soaring, adding to inflation and ultimately hurting…
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Protecting Critical Infrastructure Amid Recent Substation Attacks
In the last six weeks, five electrical substations – in North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, and Oregon – have been attacked, leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
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Protecting the Environment and Farmers Through USDA Reform
USDA subsidies have become an entrenched part of American farming, even if the subsidized crops fail to ever reach market. One of the early results of these subsidies was incentivizing…