As we start winding down 2023, we’re taking a moment to look at all we’ve accomplished this year…and a few things we wish we could forget.

This year we continued to see a green-at-any-cost agenda from the Biden Administration:

• Unelected bureaucrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission proposed a potential ban on gas stoves. The Rocky Mountain Institute, an anti-natural gas group that has ties to the CCP, pushed a bogus study that inspired the ban talk, but have since walked back their claim that gas stoves are causing childhood asthma.
• The Biden Administration and even some Congressional Republicans have floated carbon tax proposals. While this tax is usually disguised as a tax on China, a carbon tax is always a non-starter. Ultimately, it will increase costs for average Americans and open the door for a domestic carbon tax.
• Biden’s EPA proposed new rules limiting emissions for all vehicles, ranging from passenger cars to tractor-trailers. This EV plan will increase our reliance on China, strain our grid, and make it harder for Americans to afford transportation.

Thankfully, unlike the green elite in Washington, we have seen common-sense energy policies coming from local leaders:

• Ohio and Tennessee passed laws that officially labeled natural gas a clean and green energy sources, a tremendous win for energy consumers. Several county commissions across Ohio have also adopted Natural Gas is Green resolutions. Leaders in Kansas passed a similar resolution through the Kansas Republican Party.
• A Natural Gas CARES resolution was introduced by Ohio State Sen. Michael Rulli. Its purpose is to urge investment in natural gas infrastructure—recognizing that American natural gas is THE clean, affordable and reliable energy source.

States like Ohio establishing themselves as the low-cost energy leaders in the U.S. will result in lower energy bills for households and businesses. And, even more low-cost energy reforms and simplification of tax laws in states like Ohio will serve as a model to make doing business easy for everyone. While energy policies from the federal government have been disappointing, the trend of local leaders stepping up and embracing a common-sense energy agenda is cause for hope in 2024.