Global Energy Institute

07/27/2023

It shouldn't take longer to get a permit than it does to build a project. There’s bipartisan agreement for modernizing America’s outdated process. Now we need action.

Congress: Fix the permitting process now!

05/11/2023

JUST IN: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Warns Proposed Powerplant Rule Could Threaten Reliability and Harm Economy

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed powerplant regulations, Marty Durbin, President of the U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute, made the following statement:“EPA’s new powerplant regulations go too far, too fast. Regulations must be grounded ...

04/26/2023

TUNE IN: Marty Durbin, Senior VP, Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce is testifying before the Senate EPW Committee to highlight the urgent need for Congress to fix America's outdated process.

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Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, leads a business meeting to consider Joseph Goffman to be an A...

04/25/2023

RECENTLY: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosted a gathering of influential voices in policy and business to elevate the critical need to reform America’s outdated permitting process—an endeavor at the core of our Permit America to Build initiative.

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The Chamber's 'Permit America to Build' initiative brought together influential voices in policy and business to elevate the critical need to reforming America's outdated permitting process.

08/04/2022

While there are harmful provisions in the latest Reconciliation Bill, there are parts of the bill that will advance progress on climate and energy security.

06/02/2022

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shouldn’t add roadblocks to building badly needed energy infrastructure. For energy security, electric reliability, and environmental progress, the Administration should support a simplified permitting process.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed undoing a Trump-era rule that limited the power of states and Native American tribes to block energy projects like natural gas pipelines based on their potential to pollute rivers and streams.

05/26/2022

As the summer cooling season kicks off across much of the country, concerns over electric grid reliability are heating up.

A recent assessment of summer electric grid reliability shows the clean energy transition may be getting ahead of the technologies available to keep the grid reliable. Here’s a closer look:

As the summer cooling season kicks off across much of the country, concerns over electric grid reliability are heating up. A recent assessment of summer electric grid reliability shows the clean energy transition may be getting ahead of the technologies available to keep the grid reliable.

05/09/2022

Higher energy prices act as a tax on the economy and increase inflationary pressures throughout the supply chain.

The Biden Administration should be clear and consistent in its support for expanded U.S. energy production in order to provide important signals to markets and help to limit the impact of energy on inflation. Learn more:

As energy prices and the cost of inflation rise, the Biden Administration can help control rising energy prices by expanding U.S. energy production.

04/18/2022

The premise that a higher tax on oil companies would reduce gasoline prices for American consumers defies the laws of economics and history.

Curtis Dubay, senior economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, explains why the so-called "windfall profits tax" is a misguided policy.

Proposals from Congress for a windfall profits tax on oil companies during the most recent rise in global oil prices is a misguided policy. Here's why.

04/06/2022

The global reliance on authoritarian regimes for oil and natural gas threatens security. U.S. energy production could help supplant oil and gas from these nations and also be a net positive for the environment given its lower emissions profile.

The global reliance on authoritarian regimes for oil and natural gas threatens security. U.S. energy production could help supplant oil and gas from these nations.

03/31/2022

In response to President Biden's plans to combat high prices, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Energy Institute President Marty Durbin issued the following statement: https://bit.ly/3tVrxrJ

03/30/2022

NEW BLOG: Without increased development, production and processing of critical minerals domestically, the Biden Administration is impeding its own clean promises.

Here's why actions speak louder than words when it comes to the Administration’s critical minerals policies:

The Biden Administration Must Back Domestic Mining to Address Our Growing Need for Critical and Rare Earth Minerals