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Big Government Energy Policies Beget Bigger Government
California leads the country in both the number of electric vehicles and wildfires, largely due to big-government policies. Now, in a shocking twist, the industries subject to these onerous laws…
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ALEC on WIZM Radio: Unreliable Energy Sources Put People in Danger
ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, Joe Trotter, recently joined host Mike Hayes on WIZM radio in La Crosse, WI to talk about regulations that will…
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ALEC in the Daily Caller: Biden’s Finger Pointing At Gas Stations Shows His Policies Aren’t Rooted In Reality
Lee Schalk, ALEC Vice President of Policy, and Joe Trotter, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Director, co-authored a guest column in the Daily Caller about the new…
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Federalism, Virginia, and Electric Vehicles
In 2021, the Virginia legislature passed a law tying the state’s decision-making authority on vehicle emissions standards to California’s Air Resource Board (CARB). Intended or unintended, the consequences of this…
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How Fossil Fuels and Fertilizers are Impacting Today’s Food Prices
Although gas prices are coming down in response to lessening demand and a weakened economy, food prices are continuing to rise to historic heights. Grain goods, which include cereals…
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Gimmicks and Gas Costs
As ALEC has documented, the Biden Administration is hostile towards American energy, and Americans are paying the price. Research from American Enterprise Institute Economist Mark Perry shows that…
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Lessons from Germany: The Danger of Energy Mandates
As the United States faces the specter of rolling blackouts due to the retirement of fossil fuel-fired generation facilities, German officials are acknowledging that their premature closing of coal power…
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VIDEO: What’s REALLY Driving Inflation? Biden’s War on Energy
By Joe Trotter One year ago the price of regular gas was three dollars and four cents. Today price hit a new all-time record high of four dollars and seventy…
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Summer Blues: The Diesel Problem
As food prices surged again this week and gasoline prices once again hit record highs, it is vitally important for our country’s leaders to understand how bad policy is plunging…
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Prosperity & Security from Below: America’s Natural Resources are Vital to the Economy
As inflation in the U.S. surges to 8.5%, the regulatory nightmare for two of America’s essential industries, oil and mining, is poised to exacerbate America’s…
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The Crisis in Ukraine Has Major Implications for the Agricultural Sector and Global Food Security
As Russia’s attacks on Ukraine escalate in Europe’s breadbasket, global food and agriculture markets are increasingly strained, exacerbating worldwide food insecurity – especially in the Middle East and northern Africa.
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Pain at the Pump: State Leaders Consider Suspending Gas Taxes
As the crisis in Ukraine echoes through the energy markets, augmenting the already-increasing gasoline prices exacerbated by the Biden administration’s war on fossil fuels, state legislatures and governors…
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Gasoline Prices: Where Political Fantasy and Reality Collide
The sharp relief between fantasy and reality of America’s energy needs is on full display at gas stations around the country this week after President Biden’s announcement that he is…
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Setting the Record Straight: The Energy Discrimination Elimination Act
What is the American Legislative Exchange Council? There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding surrounding ALEC these days – both what it is and what it isn’t. ALEC is…
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The Never-Ending WOTUS Nightmare
The non-stop regulatory nightmare of defining what exactly qualifies as a federally regulated water way continued with news that the U.S. Supreme Court is granting review of a case challenging…
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Banning the Bacon: California Referendums Reshaping Agriculture Throughout the Nation
While Californians are waking up New Year’s Day to find the vast majority of bacon and other pork products banned in their state, the country’s agriculture industry will be scrambling…