Dear Senators and Representatives, We, the undersigned organizations representing a broad spectrum of Americans, write to provide our insight on recent proposals in both the House and Senate regarding “Windfall Profits Taxes” on the oil and gas industry. It is no secret that in the […]

By Robert Romano A group of 19 Republican Attorneys General led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson have threatened the $10 trillion hedge fund BlackRock with antitrust legal action in an Aug. 4 letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink accusing the company of “intentionally restrain[ing] and harm[ing] the competitiveness of the […]

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By Robert Romano President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda has sprung back to life amid consideration of Senate Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill for 2022 that will contain $369 billion of green subsides for solar, wind and electric vehicles , and another $25 billion of additional taxes on the fossil fuel industry , all in a bid to reduce carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030. The goal is to reduce […]

By Robert Romano President Joe Biden wants to have it both ways. Before the Congressional midterms, Biden wants to continue to depend on relatively strong labor markets data published by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics in order to avert suggestions that the U.S. economy […]

By Robert Romano “The President made clear that if the Senate doesn’t act to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, he will. We are considering all options and no decision has been made.” That was the text of an email by a White House official confirming that […]

By Robert Romano The Supreme Court has concluded its 2021 term with another blockbuster ruling, this time in West Virginia v. EPA , that struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 Clean Power Plan under the Obama administration that sought to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act even though […]

By Robert Romano One more Supreme Court case to keep your eye on this session — especially since the Court now appears willing to strike down prior precedents — is the imminent ruling on West Virginia v. EPA that, if successful, would overturn federal regulations on carbon […]

By Robert Romano The federal government continues to pay farmers not to farm on some 22 million acres of farmlands that are a part of the voluntary Conservation Reserve Program , established in 1985 to address soil erosion and other environmental impacts caused by farming, even as the global supply crisis, the war in Ukraine and bad weather are all combining to […]

By David Potter In his Wall Street Journal op-ed “My Plan for Fighting Inflation,” President Joe Biden promised to boost American energy production: “We need to take every practical step to make things more affordable for families during this moment of economic uncertainty—and to boost the productive capacity of our economy over time.” Biden is right, […]