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SANTA FE, NM – Americans for Prosperity-New Mexico (AFP-NM) and Concerned Veterans for America-New Mexico (CVA-NM) today urged lawmakers to reject HB 50, a bill that creates an unnecessary expansive private right of action under New Mexico’s environmental statues. The bill is before the House Judiciary Committee. The bill ignores the role of common law in adjudicating environmental […]
Arlington, Va. – Following President Biden’s executive order that halts new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) urged the Biden Administration to reject attempts to constrain choice and replace consumer preferences with politically preferred technology and fuels that hurt the most vulnerable citizens. A strong economic recovery will […]
SANTA FE, NM – Americans for Prosperity-New Mexico (AFP-NM) today urged lawmakers to reject HB 50, a bill that creates an unnecessary expansive private right of action under New Mexico’s environmental statues. The bill ignores the role of common law in adjudicating environmental matters and goes well beyond even the most aggressive citizen suit provisions […]
Arlington, VA – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today commended the Department of Labor for finalizing a rule on Independent Contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The rule brings clarity and greater certainty to a test used by the Department of Labor to determine if a worker should be classified as an employee or […]
SALT LAKE CITY – Americans for Prosperity-Utah (AFP-Utah) today shares support for Gov. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson’s directive to have all agencies to review their professional licensing requirements. Proponents of occupational licensing argue they help ensure public safety. Still, too often, they do little more than protect special interests from new competition […]
America’s workforce has long needed a consistent, clear, and unrestrictive interpretation of independent contractor status under the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. It now has one. The Department of Labor recently finalized an interpretation, proposed in October, that would loosen restrictions on the classification of independent contractors, helping these workers retain the flexible status they enjoy. The department wrote that its updated guidance would “promote certainty for stakeholders, […]
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is planning to have the Keystone State, without a vote from the General Assembly, join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a coalition of states that have decided to levy direct taxes on their carbon emissions through a “cap and trade” program. So, what would joining RGGI mean for Pennsylvania’s economy? In the fourth episode of Grant Us Knowledge, Grant Gulibon discusses […]
ARLINGTON, Va. – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) applauds the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) for finalizing the rule to retain existing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter. In today’s final rule, EPA is completing a robust science-based process to lock-in standards for particulate matter consistent with the Clean Air Act, the Administration’s Back-to-Basics […]
Tallahassee, Fla. – Americans for Prosperity-Florida (AFP-FL) today commended Senator Manny Diaz for introducing SB 152, a red tape reduction bill that would cap the current number of legally binding rules, and require the elimination of an old regulation in order to implement a new one. AFP-FL State Director Skylar Zander issued the following statement: […]
