Below please provide information on the December EPC Forum at Johns Hopkins. The presentation will take place at 12.00-1.30pm on December 12, in Room 204 of our building. The event will also be made available on JHU's You-Tube site a week after the event takes place. As always, I'd be most appreciative if you could publicize this event to colleagues who might be interested. Thanks, wil
Bob Inglis, Changing What We Tax: a Free-Enterprise Approach to Energy and Climate Former Representative Inglis's presentation will focus on U.S. climate/energy politics and make the case for prudent action from a conservative perspective. Inglis's think tank at the George Mason University, the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, focuses on three key components to a prudent energy-and-climate policy. First, the policy should be strictly revenue-neutral to prevent the growth of government. Second, the policy should get government out of the business of 'picking winners' by ending all subsidies for all sources of energy. Third, the policy should, over time, fix the market distortion caused by negative externalities by attaching all costs to all sources of energy. A climate policy with these key attributes would level the playing field for energy production and poise the free-enterprise system to deliver the fuels of the future. Bob Inglis was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993-1998, unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998, and returned to Congress in 2004. In Tea Party turmoil, in June of 2010 he lost his bid for re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary. As a congressman and since the 2010 primary, Inglis has championed free-enterprise solutions to America's energy-security and climate-change challenges. He recently launched The Energy and Enterprise Initiative, based at George Mason University, where he serves as executive director. Dr. Wil Burns, Associate Director Master of Science - Energy Policy & Climate Program Johns Hopkins University 1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Room 104J Washington, DC 20036 650.281.9126 (Mobile) 202.452.8713 (Fax) [email protected] http://energy.jhu.edu <http://energy.jhu.edu/> SSRN site (selected publications): http://ssrn.com/author=240348 Skype ID: Wil.Burns Teaching Climate/Energy Law & Policy Blog: http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org <http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/> EPC Facebook page: facebook.com/JHUEPC <http://www.facebook.com/JHUEPC>
