Articles by Ramsey Touchberry
Republicans are capitalizing on high prices at the pump across the country to target four states controlled by Democrats where the party believes it can make substantial political gains at the local and state levels.
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March 24, 2022
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GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill said Wednesday that suspending taxes at the gas pump is the wrong way to help consumers, whether the proposals come from Democrats at the federal level or Republicans on the state level.
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March 23, 2022
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm needs to answer lawmakers' questions about high prices at the pump, said the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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March 22, 2022
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A plurality of voters say the Biden administration is to blame for recent increased prices at the pump, according to a new poll by Emerson College.
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March 22, 2022
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The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a landmark proposal Monday that would require publicly traded companies to disclose emissions data and risks posed by climate change.
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March 21, 2022
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An unrelenting spike in gasoline prices at the pump has thrown Democrats for a loop as they search for ways to make it easier for Americans to do something contrary to the party's climate change messaging: fill up their tanks.
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March 21, 2022
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Democratic leaders worry that far-left lawmakers are stepping on the party's message by prodding President Biden to declare a "climate emergency" and clamp down on U.S. oil production.
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March 18, 2022
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The Senate is forgoing legislation that would ban Russian energy imports, despite the measure clearing the House last week with overwhelming bipartisan approval.
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March 17, 2022
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Protesters and truck drivers who have flocked to the nation's capital from across the country as part of "The People's Convoy" to protest COVID-19 restrictions caused congestion throughout the city on Wednesday.
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March 17, 2022
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House Democrats on Wednesday requested that executives from a half-dozen major oil companies testify before lawmakers over high gasoline prices.
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March 16, 2022
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More than three out of four voters want President Biden to make increasing domestic energy production a top priority, according to a new poll.
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March 16, 2022
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President Biden and White House officials unveiled a new messaging strategy Wednesday asserting that fossil-fuel companies are working to "pad their pockets" because prices at the pump have failed to lower as rapidly as oil market prices.
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March 16, 2022
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Some Democrats on Capitol Hill are escalating the pressure on President Biden to take alternative measures to boost domestic energy production, including invoking wartime executive powers to combat the global energy crisis that has sent U.S. gasoline prices soaring.
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March 16, 2022
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A number of Republican senators will unveil legislation Thursday to ban imports of Russian uranium, a move that would further constrict the flow of U.S. dollars into Moscow's war chest by adding yet another energy source to the list of those embargoed by America over the war against Ukraine.
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March 16, 2022
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President Biden's clean energy agenda is racing toward another stumbling block -- dwindling nickel imports -- from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and tough sanctions on Moscow.
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March 15, 2022
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The Biden administration has considerably slowed its approval of new oil and natural gas drilling leases on public lands, despite facing pressure to more aggressively urge fossil fuel companies to increase their production in the face of high domestic energy prices.
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March 14, 2022
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A top Senate Republican will seek to ban imports of a Russian energy source that has so far dodged sanctions from the White House and Capitol Hill: uranium.
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March 14, 2022
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President Biden managed to salvage a sliver of his climate change agenda in the $1.5 trillion government spending bill with at least $18 billion of it going to programs intended to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
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March 14, 2022
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Governors and state legislatures of both parties throughout the country are looking to suspend their gasoline taxes to give their residents a little relief from soaring prices at the pump.
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March 11, 2022
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Alabama is joining a growing list of states that don't require a permit or background check to carry concealed weapons.
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March 11, 2022
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