S2662, the growing American Innovation now act or the g. A. I. N. Act this would bring long overdue ledges lative reform to the Clean Air Act review program. It protects air quality when industrial boilers, factories and power plants are modified or newly built. The g. A. I. N. Brings clarity to factory and power plant owners as well as to state permitting officials about when permits are needed. The new Source Review Program was originally designed to support pollution control projects and upgrades. Its actually had the opposite effect. In its current form the program is complex. Its costly. Its time consuming. The program directly slows Economic Growth. It slows job creation. It slows Technical Innovation as well as the ability to modernize our american industry and infrastructure. The Portland Cement Association Submitted a letter outlining the extreme burden that new source review places on its members. The association explained that, quote, a Member Company sought a permit to comb
Just as a quick disclaimer is a nonpartisan educational organization. The institute takes no position on any issues. The views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. And we will invite our two distinguished discussants up to the stage. Then i will sit with them and will ask a few questions and we chat about this topic of dismantling the corruption nexus until about 4 pm. Then we will take questions from the audience. And we were dismissed promptly at 430. What is this all about . I am a political scientist. This means our study and explain how the political world works. Not my job to offer my opinion. It is my job to explain how things work. My work stems from actual personal frustration. Letting you know my opinion. I have been frustrated with being able to predict terrible outcomes in the worlds authoritative regime. Looking around and seeing terrible things that are going to happen. Then being frustrated by the fact that
Corruption. Live coverage now on cspan3. I bear the distinct honor of introducing myself on the aai stage as the gene kirkpatrick fellow in foreign defense policy studies here. I hold four degrees in Political Science, one of them a ph. D. From the university of south carolina. This event is a discussion of my latest report called dismantling the authoritarian corruption nexus, which is now available for download on the aei website. Read it, share it, let me know what you think. For followup see my aei scholar page or find me on twitter at clay r fuller. The American Enterprise institute is a nonpartisan nonprofit educational organization. The institute takes no institutional positions on any issues and the views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. Then we are going to invite our distinguished guests to the stage. I will give them an introduction and i will sit with them and we will chat about this topic until about 4 00
To a sold out theatre tonight, advocates of drug recovery, have a powerful message about generation found. Could a recovery school, a plan where students can get their diploma and recover from alcohol and drug use, be the answer to this epidemic . They think so. Its a story we hear all too often. He passed away of a heroin overdose when he was 19 years old. Reese should be 25 today. It almost feels like an epidemic and all of a sudden the community kind of wakes up. This i. Every child. Its blown up in numbers we havent seen before. Is worth saving. Its about putting an end to the stigma. Ive been in recovery for many years. Of what drug abusers look like. Its about time that we start looking at schools like this that can capture these kids, turn them in the right direction. Utilized answers we have to addiction is going to be proliferation of recovery high schools. For some, its a chance at a new life. I think the most dangerous words that a parent can say is never my child. Theyre ou
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