Environment & Climate

Food Security and Immigration Security are Essential for National Security

Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) issued the following statement from Adam Savit, Director of AFPI’s China Policy Initiative

Ambassador Carla Sands Supports Senate Joint Resolution 50

AFPI Applauds the Department of the Interior’s Halt of the Empire Wind Offshore Wind Project

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) recently partnered with the Independent Women’s Forum to submit an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Seafreeze Shoreside et al v. U.S. Department of the Interior, et al. In that brief, AFPI argued that the Biden Administration ignored the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369, 412 (2024), when approving permits for the Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. That landmark decision overturned the doctrine of Chevron deference, transferring discretion for many administrative decisions from federal regulators into the purview of Congress or the judiciary. By disregarding Loper Bright, BOEM was able to bypass standard permitting procedures to fast-track offshore wind project approvals.

Immediate Action Needed Now To Clean Up Imperial Beach’s Man-made Environmental Disaster

Imperial Beach, California, is facing a massive environmental crisis. While its shores finally reopened last September after being closed for more than 1,000 days, it still faces intermittent closures. The reason? Mexico has failed to ensure proper waste management and sewage treatment in Tijuana, leading to massive cross-border pollution that continues to this day.

The Green New Deal Is Gone: President Trump’s Golden Age of Energy Is Here

If there is one thing that can be said about President Trump’s joint address to Congress earlier this month, it is this: promises made, promises kept.