AUSTIN – Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation filed two lawsuits in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging EPA’s stringent new rules governing greenhouse gas emissions from trucks and cars. Together, the two rules require that at least 30% of trucks and 70% of cars be all-electric by 2032. The...
Press Release May 23, 2024Mark P. Mills, Executive Director for the National Center for Energy Analytics and TPPF Distinguished Senior Fellow, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on how modern technology and artificial intelligence (AI) create growing electricity demand and present challenges for the electric grid. Highlights from his testimony can be found below:...
Press Release May 21, 2024WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced that Mark P. Mills, Executive Director for the National Center for Energy Analytics and TPPF Distinguished Senior Fellow, will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. WHAT: U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Full Committee Hearing to Examine the Opportunities, Risks,...
Press Release May 20, 2024Today, TPPF’s David Dunmoyer, Campaign Director for the Better Tech for Tomorrow campaign, will provide invited testimony before the Texas Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee on the importance of modernizing cybersecurity for Texas’ water infrastructure. “Rogue foreign actors from countries like Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are specifically targeting the water sector in...
Press Release May 15, 2024Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauded Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for stepping forward to protect female-only spaces and organizations in Texas. The Department of Education recently announced a new federal rule that would force schools receiving federal funding to allow men claiming to be women into areas such as...
Press Release April 29, 2024TPPF has been fighting for common-sense election and border security legislation for years. While millions of illegal aliens are flooding across our southern border, a record number of localities have recently allowed non-citizen voting in local elections. Those who say the threat of non-citizen voting is unfounded either aren’t paying attention or worse, are intentionally...
Press Release April 12, 2024Today, The Texas Public Policy Foundation published a new research paper on autonomous vehicles. After extensive research, the paper concludes that autonomous vehicle technology has progressed extensively in recent years despite technological hurdles. It also concludes that states like Texas should take it upon themselves to advance legislation that protects driver autonomy and privacy to...
Press Release April 1, 2024Today, The Texas Public Policy Foundation launched the National Center for Energy Analytics (NCEA), a new national energy think tank led by distinguished fellow Mark P. Mills and comprised of a team of world-class scholars dedicated to reality-driven energy analyses. The NCEA will produce credible, unbiased research on energy issues, both proactively and reacting to...
Press Release March 20, 2024Today, Texas Public Policy Foundation announced the Frontier Fight: A Roadmap for Border Security Policy in 2025 panel, focused on the future of border security following the Biden Administration’s border crisis. Featuring former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan, Texas Border Czar Mike Banks, former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, and Chairman Ryan Guillen, the panel...
Press Release March 19, 2024Senate Bill 4 creates new state offenses for entering or re-entering the state illegally from a foreign country and for refusing to comply with an order to return to the foreign country an illegal alien comes from. Further, it allows judges to order an illegal alien to return to the country from which they entered...
Press Release March 19, 2024The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Secure and Sovereign Texas campaign announced its border security and immigration policy priorities for the 2025 89th Texas Legislative Session. The SST campaign focuses on protecting Texas communities, ensuring Texas has the resources for a strong southern border, and defending state sovereignty and authority. “Texas is ground zero for the...
Press Release March 19, 2024Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation announced the Winning the War on Woke in Higher Education panel, taking place during the Wednesday, March 20th session of the Texas Policy Summit. TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester will lead a discussion with other higher education experts on how the left is radicalizing higher education, the success Texas has had at...
Press Release March 19, 2024