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Tyler Corder

Tyler Corder works as a global controls advisor for one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy providers and chemical manufacturers and is a Certified Public Accountant. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 2014 with a B.B.A. in Accounting (Certificate in Energy Finance) and from the University of Houston in 2018 with a M.S. in Accounting (Certificate in Taxation). Tyler was a 2019 Conservative Partnership Institute Haggerty Richardson Fellow and is currently a 2021 Heritage Foundation Academy Fellow. He’s also vice-chairman of TPPF’s Liberty Leadership Council’s Houston chapter.

Energy & Environment

ESG Materiality Mandates are Out of Scope for the SEC

Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria “are a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments.” On Feb. 24, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s acting chairwoman, Allison Herren Lee expressed her support for mandating certain ESG standards “to ensure that (investors) have access to material information.” The SEC was established...

May 26, 2021

Energy & Environment

Facts, Not Unfounded Fears, Should Drive Policy on Methane Emissions

As IHS Markit’s CERA Week, the world’s premier gathering of executives and ministers to discuss energy, environment, and climate, comes to a close it is clear climate change will – as Biden promised – take center stage in this administration. Unfortunately for the American people, Biden’s actions on methane emissions, as well as other climate...

March 4, 2021

Energy & Environment

Neglecting Decommissioning Standards Risks Undoing Green Energy Progress

President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda is expansive, with plans to spend over $2 trillion over the course of his first term in office. Democrats’ main talking point is that the United States needs to expand solar energy’s part within America’s energy mix as quickly as possible. However, there is little conversation around what is...

March 2, 2021

Election Integrity

Stick with What we Know, Stick with In-Person Voting

In 2020, COVID-19 has made things complicated. Voting and elections, especially in Harris County, are no exception. And as many have realized a mere 30 days from the election, the pandemic has caused a shortage in poll workers and volunteers across the state of Texas. This is because historically, most poll workers have been seniors...

October 19, 2020

Local Government

Hear This Harris County: Texans Cannot Afford Higher Taxes

This week, the Harris County Commissioner’s Court met to discuss the possibility of raising taxes next year. The reason? “People need more of us,” according to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo. Judge Hidalgo is partially right—people are in need. The government lockdown and oil market chaos has unleashed a wave of human suffering. Consider that...

August 11, 2020

Energy & Environment

Environmental Groups Should Embrace Pipelines, Not Cancel Them

The joyful response from anti-pipeline organizations to the recent news about the scrapping of the Atlantic Coast pipeline and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to permit delay of the Keystone XL pipeline project demonstrates the need for anti-pipeline groups to take a refresher course on energy. For the foreseeable future, fossil fuels will remain by necessity our primary energy...

August 11, 2020

Energy & Environment

Why young people should be skeptical of the Houston climate action plan

With many families still recovering from Hurricane Harvey, Houston’s leaders are deflecting responsibility for their poor flood control and disaster planning, and they’re pointing fingers at fossil fuels instead. Shamefully using the disaster as political leverage, Mayor Turner on April 22 released his Climate Action Plan (CAP), a mini version of the Paris Agreement, without any...

April 28, 2020