AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host an event with Americans for Prosperity titled “Switch Off Washington” TODAY, Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. in the Joe B. Hogsett Theater at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
The event will explore how the new regulations mandated by the Clean Power Plan (CPP) will impact Texas and the economy. The recently finalized Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule to cut carbon-dioxide emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants across the United States will force Texas to cut 32 percent of its carbon emissions by 2030 — affecting jobs, electricity affordability and reliability, and the overall health of our economy for a difference of 0.02 degrees Celsius. The rule also involves massive and controversial uses of federal power, regulating activities never before considered under the EPA’s authority.
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Representative Doc Anderson, Texas House Member, District 56 The Honorable Kathleen Hartnett White, Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment, Texas Public Policy Foundation Peggy Venable, Texas Policy Director & Senior States Policy Advisor, Americans for Prosperity Mark Walters, Senior Counsel, Jackson Walker L.L.P. |
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Switch Off Washington |
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TODAY, Wednesday, September 23, 2015 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
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Texas Public Policy Foundation Joe B. Hogsett Theater 901 Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78701
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For additional information and to register, click here.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin, Texas.