Energy and the Environment

Wednesday, April 15, Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Hoover), a member of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, commented on the President’s unilateral commitment to the UN to reduce carbon emissions by 28 percent in the next decade.

In 1989, Gary Palmer founded the Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank. By the time he resigned as its president last year, API had become a powerful force on state issues, everything from pensions to prison reform to politics. Palmer led the successful fight against a lottery—Alabama is among the few states without one—and organized the drive that defeated Republican governor Bob Riley’s bid for a whopping tax increase.

Since January, when he took office as the new U.S. representative from Alabama's Sixth District (Birmingham), Republican Gary Palmer has demonstrated why — even in Congress — he remains the conservative "outsider" he was for years heading pro-family and pro-freedom "think tanks" in his home state.

On Thursday, March 26, President Barack H. Obama visited Birmingham where he delivered a speech on "Middleclass Economics." US Representative Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) issued a statement on the President’s visit.

WASHINGTON — Congressman Gary Palmer, in a Science, Space, and Technology committee meeting Tuesday afternoon, slammed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its controversial proposed ozone regulations, which to be implemented he said would require the use of technology that does not even exist.