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Bob Inglis | Changing the Dialogue on Energy and Climate
Although he hales from the reddest district of the reddest state in the United States of America, former Congressman Bob Inglis tells the story of how he came to appreciate the threat of climate change and how he believes the solution lies in the bedrock principals of conservatism.
Bob Inglis is the Executive Director of republicEn, the Energy and Enterprise Initiative based at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Inglis founded and launched the national grassroots organization in July 2012. RepublicEn is guided by the conservative principles of free enterprise and economic growth, limited government, liberty, accountability and reasonable risk avoidance to solve our nation's energy and climate challenges.
Inglis represented South Carolina's Fourth Congressional District (Greenville, Spartanburg, Union counties) for 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives (1993-98 and 2005-10). He was first elected to Congress in 1992 after having never run for public office. He spent six years in the U.S. House and unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998. In the fall of 2004, he was re-elected to the open House seat he had previously held and went on to serve another six-year stint in Congress. In the midst of the financial crisis in 2010, he lost his bid for re-election.
Inglis grew up in Bluffton, SC, graduated from Duke University with a degree in political science and earned his law degree from the University of Virginia.
