Letter cites need for ‘homegrown energy plan’ Twenty Republican governors including Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy challenged President Joe Biden in a June letter. In part, the letter said: “As governors, we are extremely concerned with the impacts your energy policies are having on households across our country and call on you to pursue an all-of-the-above energy approach that will promote homegrown energy that benefits all Americans. Under your administration, Americans have paid over 40 percent more for gas every time they fill up. These policies are disproportionally impacting low-income Americans. “Since taking office, your administration has weakened American energy security by reducing the amount of federal acres leased for drilling, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, and prioritizing foreign energy over American-made energy. “Even more recently, your decisions to freeze all new liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects and to ban fossil fuel drilling on nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska exemplify your willingness to prioritize political whims over the long-term capabilities of our natural resources. “To address these concerns, we call on you to pause the rhetorical and regulatory hostility towards traditional energy and to include states as active participants in further rulemaking. Secondly, we call on your administration to allow the free markets to flow and adopt an all-of-the-above homegrown energy plan, which includes traditional and renewable energy sources.” The governors’ letter called on the administration to: n End regulatory overreach that unnecessarily restricts domestic energy production; n Increase the number and quality of onshore and offshore lease sales including NPR-A; n Expedite approval of federal drilling permits; n Remove the pause on LNG exports; n Stop the EPA’s war on American energy by rolling back initiatives such as the final rules on methane emissions; n Repeal EPA’s Waste Emission Charge; n Work with Congress to enact comprehensive permitting reform; n Repeal burdensome and unnecessary financial regulations; n Expand critical mineral mining and processing to counter China; and n Support technology to produce reliable, affordable American-made energy. THE LINK: JULY 2024 24 Governors challenge Biden on vast overreach “We are extremely concerned with the impacts your energy policies are having on households across our country and call on you to pursue an all-of-the-above energy approach that will promote homegrown energy that benefits all Americans.”
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