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Thomas J. Pyle, President, Institute for Energy Research (IER)
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http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/
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Thomas J. Pyle is the president of the Institute for Energy Research (IER). In this capacity, Pyle brings a unique backdrop of public and private sector experience to help manage IER's Washington, DC-based staff and operations. He also helps to develop the organization's free market policy positions and implement education efforts with respect to key energy stakeholders, including policymakers, federal agency representatives, industry leaders, consumer entities and the media.
Previously, Pyle was the founder of his own consulting firm, Pyle Consulting, Inc., an active public affairs consulting firm with a wide range of private and not-for-profit customers. Prior to starting his own firm, Pyle served as vice president of the Rhoads Group in Washington, DC where he represented and advised a variety of association and corporate clients in meeting their strategic public policy goals and priorities. Additionally, he also served as director of federal affairs for a major integrated manufacturing and services company focusing on energy, environment, regulatory and transportation issues.
Before coming to the private sector, Pyle held numerous positions on Capitol Hill including serving a policy analyst for the Majority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives and as staff director for the Congressional Western Caucus, as well as other legislative staff positions.
Pyle holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
November 19, 2009 06:18 PM
More Delay, The Better Every day the cap and tax legislation is not on the Senate floor is a good day for American families. Quite simply, the longer it is delayed, the greater the opportunity everyday Americans have to learn about its economic impacts. And the more they learn, the less they like. To even suggest that this job killing bill, which by design is intended to increase the cost of eighty-five percent of the energy we use to heat our homes, fuel our cars and power our businesses, could possibly be considered as part of a larger effort to address the…
Read moreNovember 11, 2009 04:47 PM
Pickpocketed Or Robbed At ATM? Studies from EPA, EIA, Brookings, MIT, and others all agree that cap-and-trade will reduce GDP and kill American jobs. With unemployment above 10 percent and poised to go even higher, Congress’ time would be best spent on anything other than these expensive, economically harmful energy policies. Asking whether the Senate should stop trying to pass Kerry-Boxer to focus on an alternative package is like asking Americans if they prefer to have their wallets stolen or be robbed at the ATM. Whether it is cap-and-trade or a nationwide renewable electricity mandate, the result is the…
Read moreOctober 7, 2009 07:18 PM
Energy is – literally – the capacity to work. The availability of affordable and abundant energy is inextricably linked to our ability to grow our economy and enhance both our economic and environmental prosperity – prosperity made possible by the very sources of abundant, affordable energy that cap-and-trade seeks to make more expensive and less available. Indeed, the cap-and-trade plan, by its supporters own admission, is intentionally designed to increase the price of 85 percent of the energy that fuels the American economy and makes life as we know it possible. Increasing the price of energy not only limits…
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