The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s initiative, Energy for a Rising Generation, will host a panel on affordable energy and government efforts to mandate CO2 cuts via regulatory edicts such as the Clean Power Plan. The panel will be held during the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center in Maryland TODAY, Thursday, March 3, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
Press Release March 3, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s initiative, Energy for a Rising Generation, will host a panel on affordable energy and government efforts to mandate CO2 cuts via regulatory edicts such as the Clean Power Plan. The panel will be held at the Athletic Club of Columbus in Ohio on Friday, March 4, 2016 at 11:30 a.m. EST.
Press Release March 2, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice Deputy Director Derek M. Cohen, and Angela J. Thielo, Francis T. Cullen, Cecilia Chouhy, co-authored the academic article “Rehabilitation in a Red State: Public Support for Correction Reform in Texas” published in the Criminology & Public Policy journal.
Press Release February 29, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s initiative, Energy for a Rising Generation, will host a panel on affordable energy and government efforts to mandate CO2 cuts via regulatory edicts such as the Clean Power Plan. The panel will be held during the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center in Maryland on Thursday, March 3, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. EST.
Press Release February 29, 2016AUSTIN –Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Center for Local Governance Policy Analyst Allegra Hill will speak at the “Save ESD #3” Anti-Annexation Rally TODAY, Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm CST at Canyon Springs Golf Club in San Antonio. "Forced annexation fundamentally violates the principles that make Texas and America great," said Hill. "Texas...
Press Release February 25, 2016Texas Public Policy Foundation Director of the Center for Local Governance James Quintero and Economist Dr. Vance Ginn issued the following statements on news that the San Antonio Independent School District will consider a phased in minimum wage increase to $15 per hour.
Press Release February 25, 2016The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today dismissed the remaining indictment against former Governor Rick Perry. Texas Public Policy Foundation President & CEO Brooke Rollins and General Counsel Robert Henneke issued the following statements.
Press Release February 24, 2016Former Texas Governor Rick Perry will hold a press conference at 2:00 pm CST at the Texas Public Policy Foundation on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ indictment dismissal.
Press Release February 24, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) today filed anAmicus Curiae brief in opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan. TPPF and PLF jointly represent Morning Star Packing Company, Merit Oil Company, The Logger’s Association of Northern California, and Norman Brown in West Virginia, et al v. EPA. The brief supports Petitioners, comprised of 27 states, industry groups, and national and rural utilities, in opposition to EPA’s unconstitutional attempt to regulate carbon dioxide from power plants through nationalization of the entire nation’s electric grid.
Press Release February 23, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Higher Education Analyst Trevor McGuire today discussed public education in Texas on a panel, “The State of Education in Texas,” as part of the Rockwall County Days 2016.
Press Release February 23, 2016The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) filed an amicus brief in support of the claimant inSouthwest Royalties, Inc. v. Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, and Ken Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas. The brief was filed in the interest of making Texas’ tax system not only more efficient with a less regressive impact on economic growth, but also more transparent, so that taxpayers can both predict their obligation under the law and assign accountability.
Press Release February 17, 2016Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker this week issued an executive order to prohibit state agencies, departments, boards, commissions, or any of their agents from developing or promoting the development of a state plan to comply with the 111(d) Rule of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called Clean Power Plan (CPP) until the expiration of the stay issued by the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
Press Release February 17, 2016