Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Energy Action Team (HEAT) Chairman Troy Balderson (OH-12) held a roundtable discussion Thursday on Capitol Hill with nearly two-dozen representatives from America’s energy sector, focusing on legislative goals for 2025 and how Congress can work with the private sector to develop common sense policies that strengthen the U.S. energy leadership. He was joined… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Energy Action Team (HEAT) Chairman Troy Balderson (OH-12) and Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman August Pfluger (TX-11) introduced a resolution today in the House of Representatives to recognize American natural gas as an affordable and “green” energy source. This resolution outlines how American natural gas has helped lower emissions and why it… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) has been named the next Vice Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The subcommittee’s primary responsibility is to conduct oversight of agencies, departments, and programs within the jurisdiction of the full committee. Congressman Gary Palmer (AL-6) will serve as Chairman of the… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) has been selected to serve as Chairman of the House Energy Action Team (HEAT) by Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman August Pfluger (TX-11). HEAT, founded in 2011 by Majority Leader Steve Scalise, is a coalition of House Republicans tasked with championing and promoting commonsense, America First energy policy… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) introduced legislation today to nullify a final interagency guidance from the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation titled, Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions. Congressman Kevin Hern (OK-01), Chairman of the Republican… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) introduced legislation today that would enable grid operators to fast-track consideration of power generation projects that improve the reliability of the electric grid. The Guaranteeing Reliability through the Interconnection of Dispatchable (GRID) Power Act would allow certain projects, at the request of the grid operator,… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Troy Balderson’s (OH-12) Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan 2.0 advanced through the full Energy and Commerce Committee today. The Clean Power Plan 2.0, finalized on May 9, 2024, imposes impossible-to-meet emissions requirements on existing coal-fired and newly constructed… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Troy Balderson (OH-12) and Tim Walberg (MI-5) introduced a resolution congratulating the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) on their 100th anniversary this year. The AMA, located within Ohio’s 12th Congressional District in Pickerington, advocates for the rights and interests of over 200,000 motorcycle enthusiasts across the United States.… Read more »

BYESVILLE, Ohio – Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) held an energy roundtable Friday at the Guernsey Power Station, a state-of-the art natural gas power plant that began operation in 2023. In attendance were over two dozen representatives from Ohio’s energy sector, including electric co-ops, utilities, natural gas producers, business groups, and power generators. The in-depth… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) led 138 of his House colleagues in introducing a formal challenge to the Biden Administration’s regulations intended to shut down American power plants through a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works… Read more »