Trump is taking his first steps towards energy deregulation

Rennett Stowe/flickr The first step is to gut fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. The move would roll back CAFE, or Corporate Average Fuel Economy. Any changes are likely to be contested through litigation.  The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to gut fuel efficiency standards for U.S. cars and light trucks, one […]

Democrat lawmakers target Trump’s favorite deregulation tool

Associated Press/Andrew Harnik Senate Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday to scrap a law that has become one of the cornerstones of President Trump’s deregulation agenda. The SCRAP Act, short for the Sunset the CRA and Restore American Protections Act, would eliminate a measure signed into law by former Democratic President Bill Clinton, which gave Congress […]

The Republican Deregulation Bonanza Could Start With Craft Beer

Ken Broadhead has messed around with hops and yeast in his kitchen ever since leaving college, but after his wife got sick of the smell he graduated to the garage. Then, after meeting fellow home-brewing enthusiast John Martin in 2004 — appropriately, at a bar — the pair joined forces and eventually vowed to commercialize […]

United front? Bannon & Priebus talk ‘economic nationalism,’ Trump deregulation, and more at CPAC

Rumors of divisions within the White House were either dispelled or proven depending on who was watching, when President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Stephen Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus took the stage at CPAC. On Thursday at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bannon and Priebus sat down with Matt Schlapp, chairman […]

‘Gasolinazo’: Mexico Gas Prices Spike 20 Percent On Deregulation

Yesterday, protests erupted in Mexico: gas prices shot up by 20 percent in areas of the country after the Mexican government’s new deregulation policy went into effect. The unpopular measure is being called “gasolinazo,” which is reported to translate to “price slam,” by Mexican citizens who have become accustomed to the federal government controlling prices […]