Tyson Slocum

Tyson Theron Slocum joined Public Citizen's Energy Program in 2000 and is Director, promoting decentralized, sustainable energy and providing affordable clean energy solutions for working families. Tyson covers the regulation of electricity, natural gas and petroleum markets, including commodity futures and FERC-jurisdictional matters to promote stronger transparency measures.

Tyson serves on the CFTC's Energy & Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. Tyson also covers federal legislative efforts to address climate change, particularly the impact such programs will have on the ability of moderate- and low-income households to afford access to sustainable energy. Tyson has expertise on federal subsidies for the energy sector, and promotes refocusing such incentives away from the nuclear, oil and coal industries towards efficiency, renewable energy and mass transit. Tyson is the author of numerous reports on these subjects, presenting his findings in testimony before the U.S. Congress. He appears regularly in radio, print, and television media, including guest appearances on The Colbert Report.

Prior to Public Citizen, Tyson was a policy analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and grew up in Newport, Rhode Island.