Texas Public Policy Foundation & Pacific Legal Foundation file amicus brief on Clean Power Plan

The 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, 2016

TPPF files amicus brief in Southwest Royalties v. Hegar, et al

The 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, 2016

TPPF statement on Gov. Walker’s executive order on the Clean Power Plan

Wisconsin 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

TPPF files amended lawsuit against Bureau of Land Management

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) filed an amended complaint in Aderholt, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, et. al., TPPF’s lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) unconstitutional and arbitrary seizure of thousands of acres of private property along the Red River in Texas. TPPF’s Center for the American Future is representing individual property owners, the counties of Wichita, Clay, and Wilbarger, and the Clay County Sheriff in the lawsuit.

Press Release February 17, 2016