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September 5, 2025

AFPI Joins EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for Food Waste Pilot Launch

Scott Air Force Base, IL—On September 5, 2025, America First Policy Institute (AFPI) Director of Rural Policy Tate Bennett and Senior Advisor for Rural Policy Sarah Frey joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin at Scott Air Force Base for the unveiling of EPA’s Feed It Onward Pilot Program.
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September 5, 2025

America First and Dealing With a Recalcitrant Putin

It has now been three weeks since the historic Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, where the two leaders met to discuss how to end the horrific war in Ukraine. President Trump has extended to Putin hospitality, patience, and incredibly generous terms to provide him with an off-ramp to end the war and Russia’s isolation. Despite Trump’s peacemaking efforts, Putin has not only spurned him and continued the war but also attended a showy summit convened by Chinese President Xi Jinping, where Putin expressed his defiance of U.S. peace efforts and flaunted a closer relationship with China and North Korea.
Op-Ed
September 4, 2025

America Last: Green Energy Policies Are Driving Up Your Electric Bills

Let’s start with the facts: our electric bills are exploding. Massive 17% to 20% increases took effect on June 1, 2025 and another 5% increase is anticipated next summer. All of these exorbitant increases come on top of the 40% surge we experienced between 2019 and 2024 when rates jumped from 15.9 to 22.3 cents per kilowatt hour. Some resident ratepayers now report that their bills have doubled or even tripled from last summer. Policymakers in Trenton have been warned for years that a New Jersey energy crisis was looming. They did nothing to stop it. In fact, they exacerbated it.

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Chad Wolf Praises President Trump, SecDef Hegseth, and US Navy for Flawless Strike on Terrorists
Fact Sheet | August 27, 2025

Palisades Fire: Timeline of Key Events and Failures

Numerous public agencies, including the National Weather Service, issued warnings about extreme wildfire risk due to drought conditions and high winds (Berzon et. al., 2025). At the same time, the Santa Ynez Reservoir was empty during the firefighting efforts, and water levels at other reservoirs were already reported below emergency readiness thresholds.

Fact Sheet | August 27, 2025

Driving Rural Prosperity: The State of Rural America

Working-Age Populations Shrink While Older Populations Grow in Rural America: Between 2010 and 2023, the number of rural Americans between the ages of 15 and 64 decreased from more than 30 million to about 28 million, while the population age 65 and over grew from 7.4 million to 9.7 million. This is indicative of a shrinking working age population that must support child and older populations.

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