Heritage Foundation — Partnership brief

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Director, Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment
Heritage Foundation

Recent work

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Leads Heritage's energy-climate programme. Public voice on energy-security, regulatory-cost, and taxpayer-protection framing.

Signals the recipient responds to

Taxpayer-protection framing
Regulatory-cost analysis
Cross-agency policy awareness from DOT experience

Organisational context

Positions

Heritage shapes the conservative Congressional cohort that will decide the fate of DOE FECM procurement priorities.

Active initiatives

Energy, Climate, and Environment Center output feeds conservative policy agenda.

Pressures

Current administration alignment requires Heritage buy-in to preserve programmes through political transitions.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: A Heritage Backgrounder framing proof-pack disclosure as a taxpayer-protection instrument in federal CDR procurement preserves the programme across political transitions. Furchtgott-Roth's taxpayer-protection framing is native to this argument.

Why now: Pre-FY27 appropriations cycle.

The ask: Heritage Backgrounder on property-based disclosure as taxpayer-protection.

Think tank: Heritage Foundation
Target program: Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment
Key contacts: Heritage energy-policy scholars

Why this think tank

Heritage readership is the conservative congressional cohort that will decide whether DOE FECM procurement requirements survive the current administration. Framing proof packs as market discipline and taxpayer protection preserves the programme across political transitions.

The ask

A Heritage Backgrounder on per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a taxpayer-protection instrument in federal CDR procurement.

Deliverable

A Heritage Backgrounder framing proof-pack disclosure as taxpayer fiduciary protection.

Context materials Trellison can provide

Proof-pack schema specification (one-page and full technical versions)
Reinhard & Planavsky 2026 npj Climate Action paper summary
Roster of researchers available for joint work
Alpha proof-pack instances for inspection
Corporate-buyer and registry-operator contacts expressing interest in integration testing