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The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. The Heritage Foundation’s Director of if its Center for Data Analysis, Kevin Dayaratna joined Jack this week in welcoming Travis Fisher for a fascinating conversation about the Department of Energy’s recently released report on climate change.  Travis, who currently directs the Cato Institute’s energy and environmental policy studies, helped produce the report and provides unique insight into it.  Having overseen a similar report at Heritage, Kevin brings additional depth to this extraordinary conversation.   If you are tired of being told that there is a scientific consensus around climate change, you don’t want to miss this one.       You can follow Travis on X @ts_fisher and Kevin @kdd0211. As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America .  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Jack is joined this week by Power Hour Alum, Daren Bakst, Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent proposal to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding.  What is the endangerment finding?  Put simply: it provides the legal justification for nearly all global warming regulation.  To find out why you should really care, you will want to check out this episode.     You can follow Daren’s work at CEI here and give him a follow on X @darenbakst and As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America .  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Join Jack this week for an informative discussion with his Heritage Foundation colleague and policy expert, Mario Loyola.  With years of experience in think tanks, academia, and government, Mario brings a unique perspective and is the perfect person to help us to understand the energy provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill.  Jack and Mario’s discussion covers the horizon of topics, including subsidies, regulation, and energy markets.  And if you listen close, there might even be a mini-debate in there some place. You can check out Mario’s outstanding work here.  As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America .  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts.   Jack is joined today by Dr. H.M. “Hash” Hashemian .  Dr. Hashemian is not only one of the nation’s most impressive nuclear energy industry leaders as President and CEO of AMS Corporation, but he just began his tenure as President of the American Nuclear Society.  Dr. Hashemian brings his unique perspective to a host of issues during this week’s conversation. Don’t forget to check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution  The Heritage Foundation’s documentary Powering America. Join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. And buy both books!

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack invites Kirk Sorensen, Founder and Chief Technologist at the nuclear energy technology company, Flibe Energy , to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.  The two discuss the ins and outs of the sorts of capabilities a country like Iran needs to build a weapon and what was being done at each site that was bombed.  They even get into so spicy policy discussions and throw out some rather provocative questions about non proliferation policy that are worth thinking about further. Kirk is one of the nation’s preeminent experts on nuclear energy and you will want to check out what he has to say on his Linkedin page here and check out Flibe Energy’s great advanced nuclear technology here. As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution to learn how to advance commercial nuclear energy in the U.S., and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America to see what a peaceful nuclear fuel program actually looks like! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. The Heritage Foundation’s Virginia Allen takes over hosting responsibilities today to lead us through a discussion about President Trump’s executive orders on nuclear energy policy with a familiar guest: Jack Spencer.  Virginia and Jack discuss how the EO’s could have major impact on the future of nuclear energy how many of their policies align with much of what we’ve discussed on the Power Hour.  Will they lead to a  Nuclear Revolution ?  Tune in to find out.  And don’t forget to watch The Heritage Foundation’s documentary Powering America to learn more about how nuclear energy works.. Join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack and astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon on this week's episode to get an education on why you shouldn't believe everything you hear about climate change.  Dr. Soon is the Co-Team Leader of the Center for Environmental Research and Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Earth Physics and Space Science.  He's also been one of the most outspoken and credible critics of establishment global warming science for decades.  If you want to know what the science actually says about global warming, you want a o check out Dr. Soon's work and this podcast will be a great start.  You read a recent paper Dr. Soon and his colleagues wrote for Heritage here about the unreliability of global warming data, and you can learn more about his organization, CERES, here.  And here is a pro tip: sign up for their newsletter! As always, you can join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. 

In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment Finding labeled greenhouse gas emissions a threat to public health and welfare. Now, with mounting empirical evidence, improved climate models, and real-world observations, the EPA is reconsidering that determination. New data reveals a more nuanced climate reality than in 2009.Climate policy continues to carry enormous economic and legal implications, and reconsidering the Endangerment Finding is both justified and necessary.Panel: The Failures of Carbon Pricing and Associated Policy ImplicationsKevin D. Dayaratna, PhD, Acting Director, Chief Statistician, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage FoundationRoss McKitrick, PhD, Professor of Economics, University of GuelphBenjamin Zycher, PhD, Senior Fellow of Energy and Environmental Policy, American Enterprise InstituteDiana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment and The Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, The Heritage Foundation (moderator)

The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, National Review Institute, and Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation are pleased to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding will deliver the second annual Lee Edwards Lecture in Conservative Leadership.In addition to being the daughter of Lee Edwards, Dr. Spalding is the Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum. She is a Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and a Visiting Fellow at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College. Dr. Spalding is also the author of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism and the co-author of A Brief History of the Cold War.The Heritage Foundation established the annual Lee Edwards Lecture in recognition of Dr. Edwards’s long service as a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at The Heritage Foundation, during which he wrote most of his 25 books about the leading individuals and institutions of the modern conservative movement. In addition to biographies of President Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr. and Edwin Meese III, Dr. Edwards wrote histories of The Heritage Foundation, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the conservative movement. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, and Polish. He taught politics at the Catholic University of America for more than 30 years and was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the University. Dr. Edwards was also a co-founder of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.We are pleased that this year’s lecture coincides with recognition of William F. Buckley Jr.’s Centennial and is part of a series of programs to honor his legacy hosted by National Review Institute.

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts.  Jack is joined this week by Glen Lyons, one of the nation’s leading and most innovative thinkers on electricity markets. Glen has worked in the gas and oil industry and served as a member of ERCOT, the body that regulates Texas’ electricity grid and is now the founder and Chief Advocate for Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity.  This conversation is not only interesting but very timely and important as states around the nation are trying to figure out how to ensure that we are producing enough power to ensure that families and businesses have enough power to meet ever growing demand.  Unlike the usual proposals to regulate and subsidize more, Glen has developed an approach that puts energy users in charge. And don’t forget to check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution  and for an outstanding overview of how nuclear energy works, check out our documentary Powering America. Join the conversation at  thepowerhour@heritage.org!  Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.