congress ordered the federal aviation administration to establish minimum dimensions for airplane seats within a year when the agency's funding was renewed in october 2018. the faa has yet to comply. but today the agency will take a step toward creating a new seat size regulation. the faa is announcing an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking – a signal flare
says William McGee, a veteran airline consumer advocate and senior fellow for aviation and travel at the American Economic Liberties Project, a nonprofit focused on competition. “The real test will be how we do the rest of July.” Mr. McGee, who returned from a nine-day trip to Europe on Friday, says he was “floored” when
policy,” said Lori Wallach, director of Rethink Trade. “The recently-announced Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity could be a means to renegotiate our existing NAFTA-style agreements throughout the Americas to add real labor and environmental standards and enforcement, remove extreme pharmaceutical corporation monopoly powers that limit affordable access to medicines and remove the investor-state dispute settlement regime that has
D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement following the introduction of the Open Markets Act in Pennsylvania. “Reps. Innamorato and Pisciottano are showing real leadership by proposing a new antitrust law that would protect Pennsylvania workers and local businesses from the abusive tactics of dominant corporations,” said Pat Garofalo, director of
Residents and visitors are mixed on the idea, but economists call it a bad deal. ... While the Cowan brothers are excited, Pat Garofalo says it’s not real ly a smart use of taxpayer dollars. Garofalo is director for state and local policy for a public subsidy watchdog called the American Economic Liberties Project. “Stadiums