Taxpayers for Common Sense

On March 23, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that it finalized an unprecedented agreement to pay TotalEnergies, a French energy company, nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to terminate...

May 7, 2026

Dear Member of Congress:

On behalf of our combined members and supporters across the country, our organizations write to express concern about permanently waiving rules to allow the year-round sale of gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol (E15).

The Green Scissors coalition is dedicated to cutting wasteful and environmentally harmful
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Last week the House approved H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026. Known as the “skinny” farm bill since the most expensive parts of a typical farm bill were reauthorized in last year’s budget reconciliation package, aka “

The President’s FY2027 Budget Request includes a 10% increase for the Department of Energy (DOE), from $49.1 billion appropriated in FY2026 (excluding $1.5 billion in transfers from previous appropriations) to a $53.9 billion request for FY2027 (excluding $4.7 billion in proposed transfers from previous appropriations). But don’t be fooled — this funding bump is almost entire...

1. THE FIRST OIL AND GAS LEASE SALE IN THE ARCTIC REFUGE SOLD LESS THAN HALF OF THE 1 MILLION ACRES OFFERED, WHILE THE SECOND SALE RECEIVED NO BIDS

On January 6, 2021, the Department of the Interior (DOI) held the first auction for...