Taxpayers for Common Sense

For Public Communications Research

  • Amount
    $40,000
  • Program
  • Date Awarded
    4/5/2019
  • Term
    12.0 Months
  • Type of Support
    Project
Overview
Taxpayers for Common Sense is an independent, nonpartisan voice for taxpayers working to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent responsibly, and that government operates within its means. This grant is complimentary to one provided to the Center for American Progress for communications research.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.taxpayer.net 
Address
651 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.E., Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Energy and Natural Resources Program  
Because of antiquated federal methane and coal royalty rules that undervalue these resources on public lands, taxpayers lose between $1 and $2 billion a year in revenue. Worse, the federal government allows companies to flare and vent methane into the atmosphere without charging them for the value of the gas or taking into account the impact to human health or safety. Taxpayers for Common Sense will use this grant to educate policy makers on the need to update and reform the federal royalty system, employing its analytic skills as well as educating the public and media on the need for change.
for the Methane and Royalties project  
Enough methane is released into the atmosphere annually from fossil energy drilling operations on public land to power the gas needs of Los Angeles for a year. The American taxpayer loses an estimated $50-60 million in royalties payments on the vented gas. Taxpayers for Common Sense would use this grant to: A) educate the administration and other opinion leaders about methane emissions and lost revenues on public lands, B) set the stage for fair-market-value return to taxpayers through federal royalty reform, and C) create more transparent and accountable resource development on federal lands.
for the Energy Reform and Budget Accountability Project  
Taxpayers for Common Sense seeks to insure that fiscal reform includes reform of the generous subsidies provided to the fossil industry and other polluting sectors of the economy. The organization collaborates with taxpayer groups from all sides of the ideological spectrum, including the conservative CATO Institute and various state chapters of the Tea Party movement.

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