Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) have released the 2017 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws. The 14th annual report rates all 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC) on adoption of 15 basic traffic safety laws. This "report card" exposes deadly gaps in these essential laws and should serve as both a […]
API President and CEO Jack Gerard testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week on the need for smart, science-based oil and natural gas regulations so that American consumers and workers and the environment can continue to benefit from America's energy renaissance. "America is now leading the world in oil and natural […]
A collection of well over 100 businesses and trade associations that represent millions of American jobs recently announced a new coalition to stop the Border Adjustment Tax or BAT. Americans for Affordable Products (AAP) will run a national campaign to engage consumers and show lawmakers that pursuing tax policy that will result in higher costs […]
As US/Mexico relations deteriorated during US President Donald Trump's first weeks in office, a powerful Texas attorney is taking a Mexican cause célèbre to the highest court in the United States. Bob Hilliard stands with Mexico "Innocent Mexican citizens have been killed and their families have had no recourse through the court system to seek […]
The Teamsters Union strongly denounces an anti-worker bill recently passed by the Missouri legislature and signed by Gov. Eric Greitens making Missouri a right-to-work-for-less state. The destructive right-to-work law is designed to drive down wages and weaken workers' bargaining rights. States that have already mandated right to work have lower wages, higher unemployment and poverty […]
A national trade association representing brewers, beer importers, and industry suppliers, The Beer Institute, has released the following statement lauding the introduction of the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (S.236/H.R. 747) in both the US Senate by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) and the US House of Representatives by Representatives […]
Florida Petroleum Council (FPC) Executive Director David Mica has said that state Senator Dana Young's proposed legislation to ban oil and natural gas production is out-of-step with Florida consumers and families who are seeing the economic benefits of domestic energy development. "Our industry has a long history of providing environmental and economic benefits," said Mica. […]
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