Our nation’s next president must be ready to lead on Day One, so the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is reaching out to "45" to share our policy vision. We are highlighting the issues that are most important to the employers, executives and entrepreneurs that create opportunities across the nation. One of

The next stop in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s “Monumental Issues” tour of Washington, D.C., is the Lincoln Memorial, with Dan Byers and Heath Knakmuhs of the Energy Institute. The public may visit the Lincoln Memorial 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Another thing we rely on 24/7: our

After a year and a half of review, hearings, and public input sessions, a 1,168-mile pipeline proposed to move American crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois recently received approval from Iowa regulators (Bakken Gets Another Iowa Green Light, Des Moines Register April 8). When completed, the

Today we are back with one of our most popular features – an annual update to our retail electricity price map. These prices best reflect what business, industry, and you must pay for a given unit – or kilowatt hour – of electricity. Last year’s edition found electricity prices climbing in all but a

Another week, another protest by anti-energy extremists who are trying to stop badly needed infrastructure. Today’s excitement takes us to Albany, New York, where a coalition of anti-natural gas groups and other anti-fossil fuel groups are protesting the proposed Constitution Pipeline, which would

Sadly, local communities and property owners continue to be used and lied-to about the impacts and safety of oil and gas pipelines. As witnessed during the Keystone XL battle, pipeline opponents are willing to ignore facts, and use mistruths and scare tactics to achieve their goals. One myth that is

In this raucous 2016 presidential campaign, the amount of press attention devoted to a candidate’s actual policy ideas has had a difficult time breaking through the day-to-day campaign circus. But even by these high (or low, if you prefer) standards, Secretary Hillary Clinton’s comments on coal

This week, President Obama announced that his administration will pursue new regulation of methane emissions from existing oil and gas wells—the latest attack on homegrown energy. The President’s announcement was not a surprise, as the Administration has already undertaken a rulemaking process for