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Grassroots group welcomes strategy shift to reduce burdensome regulations, lower energy prices for all ratepayers CONCORD, N.H. – Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) on Tuesday applauded Governor Sununu for releasing the state’s 10-year energy strategy that focuses on lowering electricity costs for all Granite Staters and shifts direction from the previous energy strategy of subsidizing […]
AFP-Arizona’s April 12 Legislative Update is available in PDF HERE. 1) PROGRESS REPORTS — Last week, AFP-Arizona sent progress reports to all ninety Arizona Legislators, giving them estimates of what their scores would likely be on AFP-AZ’s 2018 Legislative Scorecard if the session were to end right now. With a few exceptions, the scores are […]
For a PDF version of the AFP-Arizona April 9 Legislative Update, go HERE. 1) PROGRESS REPORTS — This past week, AFP-Arizona sent progress reports to all ninety Arizona Legislators, giving them estimates of what their scores would likely be on AFP-AZ’s 2018 Legislative Scorecard if the session were to end right now. With a few […]
Grassroots group applauds EPA and Trump administration for living up to their promise to examine and remove costly, ineffective regulation LANSING, Mich.—Americans for Prosperity-Michigan (AFP-MI) on Tuesday applauded the EPA’s announcement that it would reevaluate future Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards (CAFE), marking a victory for government transparency, auto manufacturing jobs, and consumers across the […]
Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity issued a statement today following the announcement from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt that his agency will work to set more appropriate GHG emission standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE). The organization commended Administrator Pruitt and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for their decision to reevaluate fuel economy standards […]
The announcement Monday from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reevaluate future fuel economy standards is a victory for all Americans, especially for the millions of consumers being priced out of the automotive market by government-imposed costs. One of the last actions of President Obama’s EPA was to rush a Final Determination on fuel economy […]
Below is a sample email for a generic House member who voted for the Prop 301 sales tax extension/hike, but who has performed well on our coalition’s other key bills so far in the session. Here is the spreadsheet: 2018 AZ Rep Generic D7 03-28-2018 And here is a PDF of this letter: 2018 AZ House Generic […]
Remember that time last year when the federal government imposed a 30-percent tax on solar panels? Many were left scratching their heads, unsure what the point of that was. Nevada’s Americans for Prosperity state director, Juan Martinez, wrote in a recent op-ed published by the Las Vegas Sun that those tariffs were what Varun Sivaram of the Council on Foreign Relations called “regulatory capture not to an industry but to an ideology” […]
TOPEKA, Ks. – Americans for Prosperity-Kansas’ (AFP-KS) commended the Senate for voting for SCR 1612, a resolution that recognizes the high utility rates that Kansans currently pay and urges the state corporation commission to lower retail electric rates to regionally competitive levels. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Kansans pay more for electricity than all states in […]
