Craig Rucker is the executive director and co-founder of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT. He will be talking about the first day of the new presidency, when Joe Biden shoved the United States back into the terrible Paris Accord, cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, and blocked vital energy production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

MISSION

At the heart of CFACT, our goal is to enhance the fruitfulness of the earth and all of its inhabitants. CFACT accomplishes this through four main strategies:

1. Prospering Lives. CFACT works to help people find better ways to provide for food, water, energy and other essential human services.

2. Promoting Progress. CFACT advocates the use of safe, affordable technologies and the pursuit of economic policies that reduce pollution and waste, and maximize the use of resources.

3. Protecting the Earth. CFACT helps protect the earth through wise stewardship of the land and its wildlife.

4. Providing Education. CFACT educates various sectors of the public about important facts and practical solutions regarding environmental concerns.

Craig Rucker is the executive director and co-founder of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT. He is a native of Buffalo, New York, who received his Masters of Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany, Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its executive director.

For over 20 years, Craig has provided expertise to a wide range of government, academic, media, and industry forums. He serves as co-host of CFACT’s daily national radio commentary called “Just the Facts” that has been airing on some 125 radio stations from coast to coast since 1993. Rucker has written extensively on numerous environmental policy issues, and his work has been featured in such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Rucker has had primary responsibility for helping build CFACT’s Collegians program on more than 20 campuses in nine states, and has attended or brought student delegations to major United Nations conferences in Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Cancun, and Montreal.