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HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS FROM ENERGY DOMINANCE: ONE YEAR LATER

One year into the Energy Dominance agenda, the facts are already clear and unsurprising: abundance trumps scarcity, freedom beats mandates, and energy price spikes are cooling and even falling. When bureaucracy and red tape grow, the American people suffer at the meter and at the pump.

The Clear Horizons Act Is a Clear Warning

New Mexico does not need a new way to make energy scarce. Senate Bill 18, branded as the “Clear Horizons Act,” would write an economy-wide emissions mandate into law and then hand regulators the power to re-engineer how New Mexicans produce and use energy. The bill sets statewide emissions caps pegged to 2005 levels and ratchets them tighter, to “one hundred percent less,” by mid-century, effectively turning “net zero” into a legal requirement. In plain English, it is an energy-rationing bill dressed up as a feel-good slogan.

We Need Reliable Energy that Can Weather Any Storm

In the final week of January, Winter Storm Fern enveloped more than 200 million Americans in its cold embrace, driving them to crank up their thermostats and pushing the electric grid to its limits. Many Americans experienced power outages, and were forced to bundle up in their own homes amidst sub-freezing temperatures.

AFPI Applauds Protection of Responsible Minnesota Mining

Washington, D.C.—Jason Hayes, Director of Energy and Environment, and Ted Ellis, Campaign Director, Power America and Deputy Director of Energy and Environment, America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement: “AFPI applauds the actions taken by the Minnesota House to halt an arbitrary and harmful Biden Administration ban on mining in Minnesota.