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TPPF Publishes Paper Examining ERCOT’s Growth and Adaptation to New Markets

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper ERCOT’s Growth and Adaptation to New Markets: Generation Capacity, Renewable Energy Subsidies, and the Operating Reserve Demand Curve. “Renewable energy subsidies have brought increases in wind generation which lowered incentives to build the dispatchable generation that is needed to maintain reliability of the Texas electricity grid,”...

Press Release April 4, 2019

TPPF Statement in Support of Resolution Declaring Border Crisis an Emergency

AUSTIN – Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the following statement from Executive Director Kevin Roberts in support of Sen. Paul Bettencourt’s resolution declaring America’s border crisis an emergency: “The Texas Public Policy Foundation thanks the Texas Senate for recognizing what is painfully obvious to Texans and the citizens of other southern border states:...

Press Release April 2, 2019

TPPF Victorious Against US Fish & Wildlife Service in Endangered Species Act Lawsuit

AUSTIN— The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas released an opinion in American Stewards of Liberty v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service in which the district court granted in part the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s summary judgment motion on behalf of our client, Mr. John Yearwood. “The ruling from the...

Press Release March 29, 2019

TPPF Statement on the Committee Passage of HB 2

AUSTIN— Following the committee passage of HB 2, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released the following statements: Vance Ginn, Ph.D., senior economist and director of the Center for Economic Prosperity: “We support this measure’s effort to reduce the skyrocketing burden of property taxes that has forced too many Texans out of their homes and businesses....

Press Release March 28, 2019

TPPF Calls for End of Moving Image Industry Incentive Program

AUSTIN— Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the policy perspective Why Film Subsidies Fail: A Case Made for Texas by the States. “The 85th Legislature appropriated $22 million to the Moving Image Industry Incentive Program for the current budget,” said Carine Martinez, policy analyst with the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “As the 86th Legislature is...

Press Release March 27, 2019

TPPF Responds to DOJ Agreeing Entirety of ObamaCare Unconstitutional

AUSTIN— The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the Department of Justice’s letter notifying the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that it agrees with the trial court’s ACA decision. “The Department of Justice has determined that the district court’s judgment should be affirmed,” the letter reads. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled in December that the...

Press Release March 26, 2019

TPPF Commends Trump’s Free Speech Executive Order

AUSTIN—The Texas Public Policy Foundation commends President Trump’s executive order which protects the freedom of speech on college campuses by tying First Amendment protections to federal funding. Tom Lindsay, Ph.D., director of the Center for Innovation in Education, who attended the signing ceremony for the executive order, made the following statement: “President Trump’s executive order regarding free...

Press Release March 25, 2019

Texas adds 15,100 private sector jobs in February

AUSTIN – Today, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released state-level labor market data for February 2019. Vance Ginn, Ph.D., senior economist and director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following statement: “Texas continues to lead the nation in job creation, which has been a common theme for...

Press Release March 22, 2019

As civic literacy dramatically decreases, Texans want better

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper Toward Strengthening Civic Education in Texas. “It has been said that ‘the philosophy of the classroom in one generation becomes the philosophy of government in the next,’” said Tom Lindsay, Ph.D., director of the Center for Innovation in Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “If...

Press Release March 21, 2019

TPPF Publishes Perspective Analyzing Oklahoma’s District Attorney Supervision Programs

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Right on Crime initiative published the paper Oklahoma District Attorney Supervision: An Unpopular Patchwork Policy. “District attorney supervision is unique to Oklahoma and creates several issues pertaining to effectiveness, conflicts of interest, and appropriate funding of the prosecutorial branch of the judicial system,” said Joe Griffin, communications and policy...

Press Release March 20, 2019

TPPF Launches Major Media Campaign Calling for End of Corporate Property Tax Breaks

AUSTIN—Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation launched a second statewide, six-figure radio and digital campaign within a week. This new campaign calls for the end of massive corporate tax breaks for solar and wind projects that threaten the reliability of the electric grid through Chapter 312 agreements. The buy includes major media markets across the...

Press Release March 20, 2019

TPPF Applauds Key Reforms in School Finance Bill

AUSTIN— Today, the House Committee on Public Education unanimously advanced HB 3, a $9 billion school finance and property tax reform bill. Kara Belew, senior education policy advisor with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, made the following statement: “In a historic move, HB 3 requires that school boards can only hold tax increase elections after they have conducted...

Press Release March 19, 2019