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Protecting Wyoming
Industries from a Carbon Tax and the Biden Administration's
Overreach





Since his first day in office,
President Biden has used every regulatory tool at his disposal to
limit domestic energy production to appease environmental
extremists.

Last week, President Biden
escalated his war on domestic energy by ordering a pause on all
pending non-Free Trade Agreement export permit applications for
LNG, a de facto export ban.

I joined U.S. Senator Bill
Cassidy (R-LA) in sending a scathing letter to the Biden
administration urging it to reconsider the pause and instead work
to unleash American energy. Beyond being a direct escalation in
President Biden's war on domestic energy, the ban is also a late
Christmas gift to America's energy-producing foreign adversaries.
American LNG is the cleanest in the world, and a ban just means
other countries will rely more on dirtier foreign alternatives,
like Russia, Iran and Qatar.

The Biden admin's LNG export ban
operates under the same flawed logic French utility Engie used to
halt U.S. LNG before turning around and buying Russian LNG with
40% more emissions. Even worse, the European Union is trying to
impose a carbon tax on Wyoming energy by 2026 that would fall
under the same flawed logic. We cannot defer to the Europeans to
tell us how to calculate taxes on our own industries.

I joined U.S. Senator Kevin
Cramer (R-ND) in voting for the PROVE IT Act which will defend
Wyoming's robust energy and manufacturing industries from other
countries' carbon taxes by gathering data to show how Wyoming
sets the bar in terms of environmental standards.

We know the technological miracle
of fracking and an increased abundance of domestic LNG have been
the main reasons American emissions have decreased 15% since
2005, the most in the advanced world.

The data is clear - Wyoming
energy is a global force for good.

I will continue to work in
Washington to unleash domestic energy production, limit the
damage of foreign carbon taxes and ensure there is never a
domestic carbon tax.


Happy Trails,









Senator Lummis' Week in Pictures






I was thrilled to celebrate
Wyoming native Monica M. Bertagnolli becoming the new Director of
the National Institutes of Health.












Dr. Bertagnolli grew up on a
ranch in southwestern Wyoming and previously served as the 16th
Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and worked as a
Professor at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon at Brigham and
Women's Hospital. I know she will make Wyoming proud in her new
role!
















WORKING
IN WASHINGTON



Legislative Actions:


I joined U.S.
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) in introducing a bill which seeks to
permanently ban US funding to the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and
divert the funds to protect the people of Wyoming by continuing
construction of a wall at our southwestern border.

Rather than
funding an agency with known connections to Hamas and the
terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7th, the federal
government should be prioritizing stopping the invasion at our
southwest border.



Major Votes:

I voted against
President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Environmental
Protection Agency's office of Air and Radiation, Joe Goffman.

Joe Goffman
has dedicated his career to championing radical, job-killing
regulations and anti-American energy policies that would deliver
a fatal blow to Wyoming's booming energy industry. He even blamed
Wyoming for Denver's poor air quality, as if that makes any
sense.














WORKING
IN WYOMING



Working for Wyoming:
The Clark Wildfire in
Wyoming was a tragic reminder of the indiscriminate destruction
wildfires cause and showed just how difficult and costly it can
be to rebuild what you have lost. When a family loses everything
in a wildfire, the last thing they should be worried about is
setting aside money from insurance to pay taxes.

That is why U.S.
Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) and I introduced the Protect Innocent
Victims of Taxation After Fire Act which exempts insurance
payments to victims of wildfires from federal taxes. Every last
dollar from wildfire insurance should go to helping families
rebuild their lives instead of padding tax coffers in Washington.
News Around Wyoming:
UW's Fertig honored
for 1,000-point milestone
Wyoming Tribune Eagle
On Nov. 19, 2021,
Allyson Fertig made her debut with the University of Wyoming
women's basketball team. While she played just nine minutes and
recorded five points, UW knew what it had in her.

From that day, she
has been one of the most integral parts of UW's success over the
last two and a half years.













2nd Annual Wyoming Funding Summit
Set for April 8-12 in Riverton







I am thrilled to announce
registration is open for the second annual Wyoming Funding Summit
hosted by Senator John Barrasso, Governor Mark Gordon and me!

The summit provides FREE
professional training on identifying, applying for, securing and
managing grant funding. You will get the opportunity to interact
with and hear directly from state and federal funding agencies.
Towns and counties are strongly encouraged to attend.

To learn more information, see
the highlights and materials from last year and register for this
year as a speaker or as an attendee, please click here.




















WYOMING SHOUT OUT






A walk across a frozen pond
almost ended in disaster for a couple of Gillette horses after
the ice buckled under their weight and they became trapped under
the ice. Led by Battalion Chief Kate Eischeid, the Campbell
County Fire Department responded to a call for help and quickly
arrived at the ranch just ten minutes later.

The firefighters secured their
safety lines and got right to work cutting through the ice to
free the pair of horses. After 20 minutes, enough ice had been
cut to allow the horses to escape the frigid pond. While the
horses were clearly freezing, they escaped major injury and are
doing great.

Thank you to the Campbell County
Fire Department for all you do to protect the animals and people
living in our state!








Photo courtesy of
Cowboy State Daily.













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