In Alabama, the energy industry supports an estimated 160,000 jobs with an annual economic impact of over $8 billion. From 2023 to 2024, Alabama experienced the highest net growth among all 50 states in energy sector job growth at 9.6%.
Senator Britt is proud of all Alabamians working in the energy sector and is committed to protecting and strengthening energy sector job opportunities for individuals and communities across our state. She will continue to work with her colleagues in the Senate to fight to make America not only energy independent, but energy dominant, while faithfully representing Alabama’s interests and values. A strong, resilient economy is quite literally fueled by American energy independence and dominance. She supports an all-of-the-above energy approach that prioritizes affordability, reliability, and security.
Senator Britt has been proud to support the Trump Administration’s energy policies that allow our economy to flourish by ending crushing regulations and taxes the Biden Administration placed on energy producers and the American people during his four years. Early in the 119th Congress, she joined a bicameral group of her colleagues in introducing the Unlocking Domestic LNG Potential Act, which would eliminate the requirement for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to authorize the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and instead give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) sole authority over the approval process. She is also a cosponsor of the Offshore Energy Security Act of 2025, legislation requiring the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to hold two offshore oil and gas lease sales per year for 10 years to provide long-term leasing certainty that companies can rely on.
Supporting Alabama’s foresters is also incredibly important to Senator Britt. Alabama’s forests are among the primary reasons our state is known as “Alabama the Beautiful.” Alabama is home to over 23 million forestland acres, the third most in the continental United States. Alabamians are hard at work putting that land to good use. In fact, forestry contributes to over 123,000 jobs in our state, leading to a total economic output of about $36 billion. Senator Britt knows that there are no greater stewards of our lands than our farmers, foresters, and cattlemen. It’s why we are proud that over 91% of Alabama’s forests are privately owned and operated, and the state still continues to add 2-2.5% of tree volume year over year.
Since taking office, Senator Britt has made fighting the Biden Administration’s overreaching, ambiguous, and job-killing “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule a top priority, knowing that this overregulation would strangle Alabama farmers, cattlemen, manufacturers, energy producers, builders, landowners, and 64,000 small businesses. In March of 2025, she joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin in announcing that the EPA would work with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to deliver on President Trump’s promise to review WOTUS. Senator Britt later applauded the commonsense, proposed rule from President Trump’s EPA in November of 2025 to provide Alabamians with regulatory certainty.
Senator Britt believes that Alabamians have tended to their own land, waterways, and resources for generations, and remain best positioned to preserve and utilize them for generations to come.