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The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (AmFree) is a membership organization that supports entrepreneurs, innovators, and creators. AmFree focuses on research and policy that supports free markets, economic growth, and limited government. ¹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-43646)

Activities

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce provides benefits to its members that include free market advocacy, protections from threats of “cancel culture,” access to research and polling related to regulations and policy, and networking with other like-minded small business owners and allies. AmFree also encourages its members to take part in its quarterly surveys and provides members with policy briefings, status reports, and action plans. ²(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-43646)

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce seeks to advance its American Free Enterprise Bill of Rights. The ten principles of AmFree’s Bill of Rights include protecting property rights, supporting open and fair free markets, creating simple and fair tax policy, allowing for open and free foreign policy and trade, and limiting regulations. ³(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-43646) AmFree’s Bill of Rights seeks a more limited role of government, where government serves to create and maintain a fair and stable framework for the economy without favoritism or subsidies. ⁴(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-43646)

AmFree’s Bill of Rights also seeks to advance an American education system that is the best in the world and includes increasing competition and innovation within the educational system, increasing school choice for parents, and teaching the value of free markets. ⁵(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-5-43646)

Funding

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce receives annual membership fees, which are $99 as of mid-2022. ⁶(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-6-43646)

People

Gentry Collins is the CEO of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce and the former national political director at both the Republican Governors Association and the Republican National Committee. ⁷(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-7-43646)

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**Gentry Collins** reposted this • 3mo3moThe power grab coming from California and the Biden Administration would represent a fundamental disruption of the American economy - and would devastate American consumers, businesses, and family budgets. Their actions are more than just harmful. They are illegal. Our team at American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is leading the fight to protect American prosperity and stop the regulatory overreach that threatens us all., Former AG William Barr's free market group sues California over EV truck mandate, foxnews.com

[The power grab coming from California and the Biden Administration would represent a fundamental disruption of the American economy - and would devastate American consumers, businesses, and family budgets.

Their actions are more than just harmful. They are illegal.

Our team at [American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce](https://www.linkedin.com/company/amfree/) is leading the fight to protect American prosperity and stop the regulatory overreach that threatens us all.…show more](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7182011510364278784?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7182011510364278784%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29)

**Former AG William Barr's free market group sues California over EV truck mandate** foxnews.com

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**Gentry Collins** reposted this • 9mo9moRob Engstrom is an exceptionally strong addition to our American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce team. His ability to grow our organization and lead the fight in Washington for free enterprise and economic opportunity is unmatched., Scoop: Bill Barr-backed business lobby group names veteran Republican Rob Engstrom as president, axios.com

[Rob Engstrom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-engstrom-38b0357/) is an exceptionally strong addition to our American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce team. His ability to grow our organization and lead the fight in Washington for free enterprise and economic opportunity is unmatched.…show more

**Scoop: Bill Barr-backed business lobby group names veteran Republican Rob Engstrom as president** axios.com

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**Gentry Collins** reposted this • 11mo11moOpinion | Gary Gensler’s Plan to Control Information, wsj.com

**Opinion | Gary Gensler’s Plan to Control Information** wsj.com

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- American Free Enterprise has created more progress and more prosperity for more people than any other system in global history. Yet our free enterprise system faces significant challenges: from crony capitalism to democratic socialism, and eroding understanding and support among America’s next generation consumers, voters, and leaders.

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is built to address these challenges. We represent America’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and creators. We fight for jobs, growth, and freedom. We fight for equal economic opportunity for every American through open markets and bottom-up growth. We fight against outdated regulations, future-killing tax policies, and the corporate cronyism and backroom DC deal making that close down our economic future.

Check us out at www.AmFreeChamber.comAmerican Free Enterprise has created more progress and more prosperity for more people than any other system in global history. Yet our free enterprise system faces significant challenges: from crony capitalism to democratic socialism, and eroding understanding and support among America’s next generation consumers, voters, and leaders. The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is built to address these challenges. We represent America’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and creators. We fight for jobs, growth, and freedom. We fight for equal economic opportunity for every American through open markets and bottom-up growth. We fight against outdated regulations, future-killing tax policies, and the corporate cronyism and backroom DC deal making that close down our economic future. Check us out at www.AmFreeChamber.com…see more

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William Canfield works as general counsel at AmFree and is the former chair of the American Bar Association‘s Standing Committee on Election Law. ⁸(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-8-43646)

Somsak Chivavibul is the chair of the Governance and Accountability Committee at AmFree and the former CFO of Navient. ⁹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-9-43646)

Terry Branstad is the honorary chair of the board. He is a former Republican governor of Iowa, and the former U.S. ambassador to China during the Trump administration. ¹⁰(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-10-43646)

Jim Kurtenbach is the treasurer of the board and a former Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives. ¹¹(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-11-43646)

Jill Rulli also sits on the board. ¹²(https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-free-enterprise-chamber-of-commerce/#easy-footnote-bottom-12-43646)

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*Former AG William Barr's free market group sues California over EV truck mandate

CALIFORNIA April 5

Former AG William Barr's free market group sues California over EV truck mandate

FIRST ON FOX: A free market business group advised by two-time former Attorney General William Barr is suing California over it aggressive mandate for electric trucks.

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Former AG William Barr's free market group sues California over EV truck mandate

Barr: California's mandate 'is not only illegal but a threat to our American free enterprise'

Thomas Catenacci By Thomas Catenacci Fox News

Published April 5, 2024

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"The Big Weekend Show" panelists break down the Biden administration's electric vehicle policies set to impact heavy-duty trucks beginning with 2027 models.

FIRST ON FOX: A free market business group whose legal arm is led by two-time former U.S. Attorney General William Barr has filed a federal lawsuit against California over its climate regulations for phasing out diesel-powered heavy-duty vehicles.

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce – which was launched in 2022 to fight government regulations – filed the lawsuit this week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, naming California Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Air Resources Board (CARB) Executive Officer Steven Cliff as defendants.

AmFree Chamber and co-plaintiff Associated Equipment Distributors allege that California's Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulations violate the federal Clean Air Act since the state never obtained a waiver from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to pursue the plan. Under the ACF rules, which kicked in this year, trucking companies must rapidly transition their fleets from diesel-powered to zero-emissions vehicles.

"California’s attempt to effectively abolish the internal combustion engine by forcing Americans to buy EVs is not only illegal but a threat to our American free enterprise," Barr, who chairs the advisory board at AmFree Chamber's Center for Legal Action, told Fox News Digital. "This mandate is unlikely to produce any net reduction in carbon emissions, and even if it does, any benefit will be negligible in comparison to the massive costs these mandates impose on our economy and individual American families."

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Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks at a meeting of the Federalist Society on Sept. 20, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"We filed this suit to protect Californians from government overreach and to ensure they have continued access to affordable, reliable and accessible fleets," Barr added. "AmFree’s Center for Legal Action will continue to file state and federal suits that take on climate mandates that are only being implemented to move the liberal agenda forward but as a result have put a choke hold on our American economy."

In addition to arguing that California violated the Clean Air Act, the lawsuit further alleges the ACF regulations are preempted by the Energy Independence and Security Act and the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act. The former authorizes the federal government to set fuel economy standards and the latter seeks to preempt state trucking regulations with federal standards.

TRUCKERS CHALLENGE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OVER CLIMATE CRACKDOWN ON ELECTRIC BIG RIGS

CARB adopted the ACF, the most aggressive truck electrification plan of its kind anywhere in the nation, in April 2023.

The regulations require operators who manage short-haul tractor trailers, government fleets and "high priority" fleets to begin transitioning to zero-emissions vehicles this year. "High priority" fleets are those with more than 50 trucks or are managed by private companies with at least $50 million in revenue.

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State Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, California, on Feb. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

The new rules require fleets using drayage trucks – which are short-haul trucks that transport goods from ports and rail yards – to only buy zero-emissions alternatives starting this year and to fully be zero-emissions by 2035.

Fleets classified as "high priority" must either begin purchasing only zero-emissions vehicles this year or adhere to state targets, such as having a quarter of box trucks and vans to be zero-emissions by 2028.

And for fleets managed by state and local governments, 50% of heavy-duty vehicle purchases must be zero-emissions this year. That requirement increases to 100% by 2027.

Overall, the ACF requires all commercial truck sales for all fleets must be zero-emissions beginning in 2036.

FEDERAL COURT STRIKES DOWN BIDEN'S CLIMATE RULE FOR STATES

"If people want to buy electric vehicles, then they ought to be free to do so," AmFree Chamber CEO Gentry Collins told Fox News Digital. "The substance of our complaint here is not about being opposed to EVs. The substance of our complaint is about being opposed to the mandates."

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Less than 1% of new truck sales in the U.S. are zero-emissions, according to the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association. (Graham Hughes/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)

He noted the higher costs and lower range of electric trucks, which currently represent a tiny share of new truck purchases nationwide.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, CARB spokesperson Kate Lamb said the agency doesn't comment on pending litigation. However, she pointed to various figures showing the projected health and climate benefits of the ACF regulations.

"While trucks represent only 6% of the vehicles on California’s roads, they account for over 35% of the state’s transportation-generated nitrogen oxide emissions and a quarter of the state’s on-road greenhouse gas emissions," she said.

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Bonta's office didn't respond to a request for comment.

Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

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Ambassador Terry Branstad, Honorary Chairman

Ambassador Terry Branstad is America’s longest serving governor, having served as Iowa governor from 1983-1999 and 2011-2017. He served as the 12th United States Ambassador to China from 2017-2020.

William Canfield

General Counsel

Canfield is a nationally recognized expert in federal and state campaign finance issues and six-time presidential campaign general counsel. Canfield was twice chair of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Election Law and has extensive experience in tax-exempt 501c3, 501c4 and 501c6 committees.

Somsak Chivavibul

Governance and Accountability Committee Chairman

Chivavibul is a seasoned financial executive, having served as Chief Decision Management Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Navient, and as Senior VP for Financial Planning and Analysis at Sallie Mae. Chivavibul chairs AmFree Chamber’s Governance and Accountability Committee.

Gentry Collins

Chief Executive Officer

Collins has run large-scale advocacy and brand management efforts across multiple industries. He is the former National Political Director at both the Republican Governors Association and the Republican National Committee.

Jim Kurtenbach

Treasurer

Kurtenbach has extensive public and private sector experience, working with start-up and public companies. Kurtenbach holds a Ph.D. in accounting and has served in various leadership capacities for government and private entities. Kurtenbach is a former member of the Iowa Legislature.

Rob Engstrom

President

Engstrom served as Chief Political Strategist at the American Bankers Association (2017-2022) and remains as a senior advisor. He served at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2002-2022), as a Sr. advisor, Sr. VP, Sr. VP of Political and State Affairs for the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, national political director, and the chief liaison to over 2,000 state and local chambers and trade associations. Earlier, he worked as Director of Political Education at the Republican National Committee and on Speaker Gingrich's campaign.

Jill Rulli

Board Member

Rulli is an entrepreneur, small businesswoman, and founder of The Thought. She sits on the Board of Visitors at the University of Georgia. Rulli formerly served in leadership roles on multiple presidential, senatorial, and independent expenditure campaigns around the country.

Free, fair, open markets have created more progress and prosperity than all other economic systems combined.

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is built to nurture and grow these ideas.

We represent hard working entrepreneurs, innovators, and creators. We fight for jobs, growth, and freedom. We fight for equal economic opportunity for every American. We fight against burdensome regulations, job-killing tax policies, and the corporate cronyism and backroom DC deal making that threaten our economic future.

And we fight to ensure global competitors like China are held accountable for anti-free market behavior and theft of intellectual property that deny a level playing field to businesses of all sizes.

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is policy and research focused, and will use these products to drive the economic growth debate in American public discourse.

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Hon. William Barr - Chairman of the Center for Legal Action Advisory Board

Two-time former United States Attorney General William Barr will serve as the Chairman of the Center for Legal Action’s Advisory Board, working alongside AmFree’s Chairman Terry Branstad and CEO Gentry Collins.

General Barr will advise the Center for Legal Action on growing its advisory board, and on developing its legal action strategy. General Barr will help CLA develop a network of outside firms comprised of the best legal talent in America.

A native New Yorker, Barr earned his A.B. and M.A. degrees at Columbia University and, while working at the CIA, earned his law degree at night at George Washington University. Barr spent a decade practicing law at a Washington firm, interrupted by a stint in the Reagan White House. President George H.W. Bush successively appointed Barr Assistant Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and finally the 77th Attorney General.

After the Bush Administration, Barr spent 15 years as General Counsel of GTE Corporation, and its successor company, Verizon, where he headed legal, regulatory and government affairs activities; played a lead role on behalf of local phone companies in framing the litigation strategy, and personally arguing cases, that successfully dismantled the FCC’s regulatory regime, forcing deregulation of telecommunications companies and paving the way for the wide-scale deployment of broadband.

After retiring from Verizon, Barr served on a number of public company boards and as Of Counsel at Kirkland & Ellis. In late 2018, with the Trump Administration careening toward a possible constitutional crisis, Barr agreed to serve again as Attorney General, and was confirmed as the 85th Attorney General.

Barr is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a Co-Founder of the Torridon Group LLC.

Mission of the Center for Legal Action

Since 1994, the number of federal regulations has grown from 9,236 to 111,065. Every year since 1994, more than 3,000 new regulations have been added (except 2019, which saw ‘just’ 2,970 rules added).

Federal statistics reveal between 18,000 and 38,000 pages of new rules have been added every year since the early 2000s. Studies show the mandates issued by the administrative state have an annual economic impact of between $1.9 and $2.1 trillion, which approaches 10% of U.S. GDP. Federal regulatory overreach is choking the American economy.

We need to end the insatiable expansion of the federal bureaucracy. The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (AmFree Chamber) formed its Center for Legal Action (CLA) to address this challenge.

CLA will redress the imbalance of power created by decades of overregulation, with the goal of returning power to the people and their elected representatives. CLA will challenge the barrage of federal regulations and mandates that raise energy costs, reduce employment, restrict basic freedoms, and erode the constitutional rights of individuals and businesses.

CLA will have multiple tools in its legal arsenal: it will provide congressional testimony, initiate litigation, file amicus briefs, and support lawsuits brought by other parties in important regulatory and constitutional cases.

Two-time former Attorney General Bill Barr will serve as the Chairman of CLA’s Advisory Board, supporting AmFree’s Chairman Terry Branstad and CEO Gentry Collins.

General Barr will advise CLA on expanding its advisory board to include the nation’s top legal talent, and on developing the group’s legal strategy. General Barr will help CLA build a network of the best outside law firms to rein in the administrative state.

The Center for Legal Action will address regulatory challenges in several ways:

First, CLA will engage on major rules with significant impacts on American businesses and consumers. These include those such as, among many others, the SEC rule (expected to be finalized in the coming weeks) requiring corporate disclosures about climate change risk; the regulatory definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS); guidance from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) directing how agencies incorporate climate change considerations into environmental permitting reviews; and the suite of EPA air quality rules addressing emissions from manufacturing facilities, power plants, and other major sources across the economy.

Second, CLA will challenge rules that threaten the economic efficiency and competitiveness of entire sectors of the American economy. These include EPA chemical reviews under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); EPA regulations covering per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances; pipeline certificate reviews by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); auto efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions standards for new cars and trucks by the Department of Transportation, EPA, and California; and efficiency and safety standards covering everything from gas stoves to lightbulbs to water heaters by the Department of Energy and Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Third, CLA will take on rules that threaten small and mid-sized businesses, which serve as the engine of job creation and innovation for the American economy. These include proposed changes to independent contracting rules that threaten the viability of the gig economy, which can overwhelm small businesses and start-ups. Another example in this vein is the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s rule mandating disclosure of greenhouse gases and climate financial risk for federal contractors. If finalized in its current form, the rule could create extremely costly and burdensome paperwork requirements for small businesses that supply labor and materials to federal contractors.

Fourth, CLA will focus on rules that undermine the global competitiveness of U.S. companies. These rules push jobs and manufacturing to, and make the U.S. more dependent on, foreign adversaries, such as China. They include new guidance from the Treasury Department, that makes it easier to obtain tax credits for electric vehicles, made with materials for parts and batteries from China, violating Congressional intent. In addition, despite billions in new funding from recently passed legislation, the maze of new permitting requirements from an array of federal agencies is preventing the U.S. from improving its infrastructure—including roads, bridges, mining sites, pipelines, and manufacturing facilities, thereby sending new jobs and investment overseas.

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Apr 13, 2023 — Former attorney general Bill Barr will chair a new legal effort aimed at curbing federal regulation.

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Apr 13, 2023 — ... AmFree's Chairman Terry Branstad and CEO Gentry Collins. ... “I am honored to support Governor Branstad and the AmFree Chamber of Commerce ...

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Nov 10, 2023 — Gentry Collins is CEO and Terry Branstad, former ambassador to China and Iowa governor, is honorary chair. Go deeper: Chamber of Commerce ...

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Apr 13, 2023 — PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (AmFree ... AmFree's Chairman Terry Branstad and CEO Gentry Collins.

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Gentry Collins. CEO, American Free Enterprise Chamber… Click here to view Rob ... AmFree Chamber sues the SEC on its unconstitutional climate disclosure rule.

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Two-time former Attorney General Bill Barr will serve as the Chairman of CLA's Advisory Board, supporting AmFree's Chairman Terry Branstad and CEO Gentry ...

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Apr 8, 2024 — The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce (AmFree Chamber) ... Gentry Collins, AmFree Chamber CEO. “The attempt currently underway ...