8:30 a.m. Session I: Administration Update

Administrator Scott Pruitt, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Brooke Rollins, Texas Public Policy Foundation – Moderator

9:10 a.m. Remarks

Becky Norton Dunlop, The Heritage Foundation

9:20 a.m. Session II: Congressional Update

Senator Mike Lee, Member, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee

Congressman Lamar Smith, Chairman, House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology

Speaker Introductions by Chip Roy, Texas Public Policy Foundation

10:15 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. Session III: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Alex Epstein, Founder & President, Center for Industrial Progress
Speaker Introduction by Chip Roy, Texas Public Policy Foundation

11:15 a.m. Session IV: Congressional Update

Senator Jim Inhofe, Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
Speaker Introduction by Chip Roy, Texas Public Policy Foundation

11:45 a.m. Lunch

12:45 p.m. Session V: Is CO2 Really a Pollutant? Update from the CO2 Coalition

Dr. William Happer, Princeton University

Dr. Craig D. Idso, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Roy W. Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville

Patrick J. Michaels, Cato Institute – Moderator

2:15 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. Session VI: Pioneers of the Energy Revolution

Bud Brigham, CEO, Brigham Oil and Gas

Robert Murray, Murray Energy Corporation

Brooke Rollins, Texas Public Policy Foundation – Moderator

3:45 p.m. Session VII: Industry & The Economy

Rupert Darwall, Author of the Age of Global Warming

Lucian Pugliaresi, Energy Policy Research Foundation

Mark P. Mills, Manhattan Institute

Dr. Kevin Dayaratna, The Heritage Foundation

Robert Gordon, The Heritage Foundation – Moderator

5:00 p.m. Concluding Remarks

Brooke Rollins, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Becky Norton Dunlop, The Heritage Foundation