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The Honorable Jason Isaac

The Honorable Jason Isaac is the Director of Life:Powered at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Jason, a fourth-generation native Texan, was elected four times as the State Representative for Hays and Blanco counties in the Texas Hill Country. During his eight years of service, he successfully passed legislation to reduce taxes, strengthen election integrity, improve public education, preserve Second Amendment rights, protect local groundwater, and protect private property rights.

Energy & Environment

ESG investments’ failures show states are right to fight the green investing agenda

In the last two years, five states have abolished politically motivated ESG investing from state-operated pensions, and almost half of states have raised antitrust concerns that BlackRock and other ESG-focused investing firms may be abusing taxpayer dollars. ESG activists are now claiming these commonsense protections for retirees could increase costs. But the real cost of buying into...

January 25, 2023

Energy & Environment

Choosing between food and fuel leaves more Americans out in the cold

Conversations around Sherri Bukovskey’s kitchen table are much like yours. A dental hygienist from Maine, Sherri remembers the days not long ago when she could keep her home toasty warm in the wintertime for half the price it would cost today. She remembers when no one in her neighborhood would even consider foregoing medication in...

November 4, 2022

Energy & Environment

Here’s One State That Has The Guts To Burst The Woke Bubble

Investing to support social or political causes is as old as investing itself, but what we now know as Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) investing began in the 1960s as socially responsible investing. In 2005, “Who Cares Wins” stated that “embedding environmental, social and governance factors in capital markets makes good business sense and leads to more sustainable markets and...

September 12, 2022

Economy

Reanimating Bad Ideas in the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’

Leftists in D.C. have reanimated pieces of the Green New Deal, the Clean Power Plan, and Build Back Better and stitched them into the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” But they left out the job growth part. The bill would be better named the “Inflation Reduction and Job Growth Act of 2022—for China.” There’s nothing...

August 5, 2022

Energy & Environment

Energy Crisis, Not Climate Crisis, is Code Red for Humanity

Recently, President Biden gave his remarks on the “clear and present danger” of climate change in front of Brayton Point, a once thriving and now shuttered coal powered electric plant being transformed to a wind energy production and distribution facility. Standing on those steps is not as symbolic of the “clean” energy transition as he...

July 28, 2022

Energy & Environment

Biden’s Abuse Of Defense Production Act Will Drive Gas Prices Even Higher

Gas prices have driven many a voter to the polls in our nation’s history, but Americans are feeling pain at the pump now more than ever as the average national gas price breached $5 for the first time in history. President Biden is busying himself with non-solutions like a temporary gas tax break — something even former...

June 27, 2022

Energy & Environment

An upcoming Supreme Court ruling could stop Biden’s climate overreach

With the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade on the horizon, the nation’s eyes are turned to the Supreme Court. But there are more decisions likely coming out this week that could transform federal powers. One is West Virginia v. EPA, which could end Obama’s Clean Power Plan for good and limit the ability of...

June 23, 2022

Economy

Sounding the Alarm on Shortages

Millions of young children face food insecurity every day; in fact, food insecurity is one of the greatest threats they can face. Here’s why: 50% of fruits and vegetables, 40% of roots and tubers, and 20% of grains are lost before they ever reach in the market in developing countries—in Africa specifically. But it’s not...

May 20, 2022

Energy & Environment

For a cleaner Earth, invest in — don’t divest from — fossil fuels

Ah, Earth Day, when all headline-seeking celebrities, corporations, and politicians come together to virtue-signal about saving the world. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Invest in Our Planet” — an ironic choice, since the financial goals of the environmentalist movement wouldn’t help the planet but would, instead, hurt so many of the humans living on it....

April 21, 2022

Energy & Environment

New ‘climate risk’ rule will burden businesses to promote unscientific alarmism

It’s no surprise the Biden administration favors big government. But a new climate rule proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) takes Biden’s “whole of government” assault on our energy resources to whole new level. Under a new SEC rule proposed last month, all companies would be required to disclose their greenhouse gas...

April 11, 2022

Energy & Environment

Russia Is Just Biden’s Scapegoat for Rising Gas Prices

President Joe Biden’s announcement that the United States would ban Russian oil imports in response to the attack on Ukraine was met with serious concern from both sides of the aisle because of the impact it could have on already record high gas prices. This criticism is valid — and, to be fair, Biden acknowledged in his...

March 17, 2022

Energy & Environment

Idaho legislation to boycott the boycotters will protect our energy & tax dollars

The Idaho state legislature is considering a controversial — but critical — good-government bill to protect America’s energy industry and safeguard tax dollars from being abused for political gain. Hundreds of the world’s largest financiers, collectively controlling over 60% of global wealth, have created a cartel, colluding to discriminate against industries they deem politically incorrect and advance...

March 10, 2022