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Matt Ball
Todd Pauley; Aaron.Cooper@oag.ok.gov
John Tidwell; Joshua Harlow
"EPA Regulation and Your Pocketbook" - Thursday, Aug 22nd 10-11:30am
08/14/2013 03:57 PM
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Aaron and Todd:
Firstly, thank you to your respective bosses and all they are doing to push back against President Obama's
EPA and its axis with liberal environmental groups to increase energy costs for Oklahomans and American
families across the states. You both work for true champions of freedom and liberty!
I wanted to send a brief rundown of the format for next Thursday's AFP Foundation-OK Community Forum:
"EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook." I have copied John Tidwell and Josh Harlow w/ Jones PR in OKC
since they contract with us for PR in multiple mediums.
WHEN: August 22nd 10am-11:30am
WHAT: “EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook” - Panel Discussion and Q&A
WHO: Congressman James Lankford
OK Attorney General Scott Pruitt
William Yeatman, Asst Director of the Center for Energy & Environment at the Competitive
Enterprise Institute (CEI).
WHERE: Oklahoma City University Meinders School of Business
2501 N. Blackwelder Ave (corner of 24th and McKinley)
OKC, OK 73106

FORMAT / CONTENT

This is an AFP Foundation-OK event (501c3) so there will not be any calls to action of any sort
and will strictly be an issue education event for your constituents to come and learn about the
great work your bosses are doing to push back against the EPA in Congress and in court and
how these overly aggressive tactics and regulation will hurt the pocketbooks of Oklahomans.
The top-down, overly burdensome regulatory takeovers from the Obama EPA truly do
threaten Oklahoma families and businesses by pursuing an ideological agenda that results in
increases in utility rates and cost of doing business.
My goal is for this to not only be an event that helps AFP/AFPF-OK but one that helps the
Congressman and the AG both from a PR and policy perspective.
CONGRESSMAN LANKFORD
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 The Congressman can discuss his bill on Sue and Settle, his EPA committee business on House Govt

Oversight. The idea is to discuss how Sue and Settle works to execute the President's
ideological environmental agenda by circumventing Congressional authority. Also, perhaps
discuss all that the Congressman has done on Regional Haze within the SUe and Settle context
—strictly aesthetic regulation et al. If he wants to discuss the situation that RH regulations has
put OK utilities into he is certainly welcome to do that as well with out specific discussion of
the PSO/EPA settlement.
ACTION ITEMS
-If you can provide some info (talking points, bullet points, et al) re: Lankford's Sue and Settle
bill and additional items he would like to discuss within the vein above, we can put those
talkers into a few power point slides and handouts for each attendee.
ATTORNEY GENERAL PRUITT
This is an excellent opportunity for the AG to discuss the role of attorneys general as a last line of defense
for states rights against overly intrusive federal regulation of which EPA environmental is only one example.
More specifically, the AG can discuss the specifics of his new Sue and Settle litigation, its merits, context, etc
so as to explain how the states are pushing back against the President's environmental agenda through the
rule of law. If the AG would like to discuss his involvement in seeking dismissal of the PSO Environmental
Compliance case at the OCC, he is certainly more than welcome to do so. I understand if he does not wish
to.
ACTION ITEMS
-Please provide some talking points, bullet points et al. re Pruitt's Sue and Settle litigation, its importance
and any other point the AG would like to discuss within the vein above. We will put into PPT slides and
handouts for all attendees.

WILL YEATMAN (CEI)
Yeatman is with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in DC and is the Asst Director of CEIs Center for
Energy and Environment. Yeatman was retained several months ago by AFP Foundation-OK to perform a
study of the manner EPA has conducted itself in the states, including Oklahoma. This study will include a
comprehensive cost analysis of the Revised State Implementation Plan (SIP) on Regional Haze compliance.
This will include analysis of the costs of the EPA/PSO settlement and projected costs to ratepayers.
Yeatman will present the study in a brief PPT presentation at the event after each of you have had the
opportunity to speak. I will provide both of your offices an advance copy of the study. The idea here is for
an objective third party think tank fellow to discuss PSO/EPA settlement and you will not be asked to
comment specifically.
Q&A
The panel discussion will be followed by Q&A from the attendees. Again, the session is scheduled to run
from 10am-11:30am total.

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 MEDIA
We will have media in attendance and, if each of your offices is comfortable, we would like to tape the
panel session and edit for YouTube to disseminate to our membership who are unable to attend the event.
If this is a problem please let myself or John Tidwell know.
Thanks for all you guys do,
Matt Ball
State Director
AFP Foundation/Americans for Prosperity-Oklahoma
(405) 315-3668 mobile
Mball@afphq.org
www.afpok.org

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