US energy and climate policy, always a contentious issue, has become increasingly polarized. Climate change remains controversial in the Republican Party and conservative US politics more broadly. In the absence of Republican policy proposals, most of the climate-change policy discussion has been driven by Democrats and progressive groups. At this event, former Republican Representative Bob Inglis, executive director of the Energy & Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University, will lay out a framework for a climate policy based on ending subsidies and including hidden costs, and will describe how this enterprise-oriented approach is well-aligned with conservative thought but could also attract broader support.
A moderated discussion on the prospects for such an approach will follow. Inglis will be joined by three faculty members from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy: two former George W. Bush administration officials, Susan Schwab, former US Trade Representative, and Phillip Swagel, former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department; and one former Obama administration official, Steve Fetter, former Assistant Director at-large in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) and former Principal Assistant Director of OSTP's Environment and Energy Division.
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