Texas Public Policy Foundation touts fossil fuel benefits beyond Texas
The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s bailiwick has long been small government and tax-cutting advocacy in Texas, pushing for cuts to environmental regulations and renewable energy subsidies at the Legislature and in communities across the state.
But over the last year the conservative, Austin-based think tank, backed by a board whose members include fossil fuel executives, has aimed to export its Texas tactics, producing videos, paying for social media advertisements and writing opinion pieces to draw attention to the ways energy, particularly fossil fuels, has improved quality of life in areas as varied as Arizona and Haiti.
Launching an effort called Life
owered, the nonprofit has hired an Austin coal lobbyist as the initiative’s director, a former Republican state representative from Hays County with ties to the natural gas industry as its senior manager, and a radio show host who promotes fossil fuels as a senior fellow.
A Democratic U.S. senator from New Mexico has described Life owered as “deceptively named” and the foundation as “one of a growing number of political-front groups paid for by wealthy and self-interested fossil fuel donors.”
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190614/texas-public-policy-foundation-touts-fossil-fuel-benefits-beyond-texas
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