Taxpayers For Common Sense

Disaster and wildfire -tcs works to educate the public about the increased costs of disasters and wildfires and the need to reform programs to more effectively and efficiently spend taxpayer dollars before disaster strikes.

Environmental and natural resources program - tcs works to ensure that the federal government manages taxpayer assets of public lands and waters in a manner that protects their value, delivers a fair return from private interest use, and avoids long term liabilities for the taxpayer. This includes work documenting taxpayer costs and liabilities associated with climate change and ways to mitigate those costs with less burden on future taxpayers. Tcs educates the public and policy makers about energy and natural resources policy, climate chabge impacts and policy, and works to eliminate harmful and wasteful spending that creates long term costs for taxpayers. Tcs covers a wide range of energy, public lands, and resources issues, producing and distributing educational materials such as, federal subsidies for biofuels and biomass energy; doe loan guarantee program; the cost of speculation in federal oil and gas leases; tcs routinely presents comments on administration rules and testifies before the house and senate. Reports, fact sheets, and analysis are made available to the public through the tcs website and are actively promoted through social media.