WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Americans for Tax Reform issued the following commentary on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * Leave Us Alone with Grover Norquist: When States Compete, America Wins By Preston Shirazi Grover Norquist explores how state-level innovation is reshaping American policy in this week's Leave Us Alone Podcast. From failed experiments like Vermont's single-payer healthcare to successful reforms spreading nationwide - like school choice and flat tax rates - the episode reveals how states serve as America's policy laboratories. Grover exa more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed its support for a Burlington, Vermont, ballot measure opposing Israeli apartheid and occupation of Palestinian land. A ballot measure calling for an end to "Israel's apartheid regime, settler colonialism and military occupation" could be on Burlington's town meeting ballot next year. The ballot m more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 14 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release: * * * Vermonters deserve honest accounting of climate-damaging emissions * * * (Montpelier, VT) - Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) has opposed the State of Vermont's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by CLF to hold the Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) accountable after she failed to ensure the state is on track to reduce climate-damaging emissions. CLF filed a response to the state's motion to dismiss and released the foll more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 11 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release: * * * More needs to be done to ensure safe, clean water for Vermont * * * (Montpelier, VT) - Vermont's Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) released a draft plan to stop industrial farm pollution and improve clean water permitting and enforcement. While the plan is a first step, it is lacking and will not adequately protect Vermont's waters, including Lake Champlain, from the excess phosphorus that continues to cause the state's waters to run w more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The National Governors Association issued the following statement on Dec. 13, 2024: * * * National Governors Association (NGA) Public Health and Disaster Response Task Force Co-Chairs Hawaii Governor Josh Green and Vermont Governor Phil Scott issued a statement today urging Congress to approve comprehensive disaster relief funding: "As co-chairs of the National Governors Association Public Health and Disaster Response Task Force, we urge Congress to pass a comprehensive disaster relief package and appropriate sufficien more PR