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The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. This is a good one folks! In this episode, Jack invites Heritage Foundation President, Dr. Kevin Roberts to the show. Jack and Dr. Roberts discuss everything from the immorality of green energy policies to the critical role of hydrocarbons to Ameri...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, host Jack Spencer invites former Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Steven Winberg to the show. Steve’s insight is informed by decades of energy industry experience. Making this podcast a little spicier than usual is that while...

Is China building new naval bases? Join us for a conversation on  Harboring Global Ambitions: China’s Ports Footprint and Implications for Future Overseas Naval Bases , a recent report on where China is likely to establish its next overseas naval base.   Harboring Global Ambitions  draws on primary data collection of project-level financial flows dating back to 2000. A comprehe...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, host Jack Spencer invites economist, author, commentator and Distinguished Heritage Fellow, Stephen Moore to the show. Tune in to hear about Steve’s experience working with President Trump and why Biden’s energy policies will leave us a...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher invite Daniel Simmons, former Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy and energy policy extraordinaire. Among other issues, we discuss...

For the past 60 years, America has faced political fumble after fumble, costing the American people energy security and independence. Affordable and reliable electricity and transportation are vital to high standards of living around the globe, and new proposed EPA regulations will lead to higher electricity bills and more blackouts for families, small businesses, and farmers. Join us as Harold Ha...

Since President Biden took office, over two million illegal immigrants have been released into the United States. More than 1.5 million more “gotaways” snuck in without even encountering border agents. Though monthly border encounters averaged well over 150,000, and often above 200,000, the Department of Homeland Security detained fewer than 30,000 at a time. They assign “Alternatives to Detention...

For nearly forty years, the United States has enjoyed exclusive security agreements with three Pacific Island nations, collectively known as the Freely Associated States. These agreements must be renewed this year—and the clock is ticking before two of the three agreements expire this September. With China increasing its malign influence operations and infringing on Pacific nations’ sovereignty, C...

ESG, debanking, bailouts are just some of the tools that the administrative state uses to undermine the rule of law to force financial companies to become the equivalent of government agencies doing the federal government’s bidding. Professor Todd Zywicki draws heavily from his new Heritage First Principles essay “ Restoring the Rule of Law in Finance ” in this wide-ranging interview. Listen to ot...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this week’s episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher host Alex Gage, Research Assistant at the Heritage Foundation, to talk about an upcoming report on the interplay between population growth, energy, and the environment. When today’s politicians cla...

The Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 term has almost concluded. There were major cases involving voting rights ( Merrill v. Milligan  and  Moore v. Harper),  racial preferences ( Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC ), religious speech ( 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis ), racial gerrymandering ( Allen v. Milligan ), property rights ( Sackett v. EPA ), the legality of the President’s stud...

John Catsimatidis’ story is the American Dream: At six months old, John and his family emigrated from Greece and settled in Harlem. Decades later, he dropped out of college to work in a grocery store full-time, and by age 25, he owned 10 stores of his own. Fifty years later, John’s sharing his lessons learned from a massively successful business career in his new book,  How Far Do You Want to...

The “Secure the Border Act,” the country’s most consequential border security bill to ever have passed the House of Representatives, did so in large part due to the efforts of the House Committee on Homeland Security, led by its new chairman, Mark Green, M.D. Join us as he and Heritage Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan discuss the policies needed to secure the border, next steps for this cri...

The Heritage Foundation is honored to host H.E. Ambassador Hyundong Cho, U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Representative Young Kim (R-CA) for our signature event on U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific. This year’s event celebrates the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-South Korea alliance while looking forward to future challenges and opportunities in the relatio...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher invite Michelle Bloodworth, President and CEO of America’s Power, to discuss the future of coal and the impact of energy policy on coal-fired power plants in the U.S. Coal provides low-cost and relia...

Stakeholder capitalism promises a more ethical and egalitarian-oriented capitalism, but it places capitalism in the grip of social justice ideology and, ultimately, reduces corporations to state-directed entities. In this episode, Jeremy Kidd and George Mocsary, authors of a recent Heritage Report on stakeholder capitalism , discuss the movement’s philosophy and objectives. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher welcome Lou Pugliaresi, President of the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. to discuss EPRINC’s new report  A Critical Assessment of the IEA’s Net Zero Scenario, ESG, and the Cessation of Invest...

For thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the “cruelest justice,” a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In his new book,  The People’s Justice , Judge Amul Thapar examines Thomas as a man and the jurist and rightfully demolishes this unfair caricature. Through a series of eye-opening stories, stripped of their legalese, Thapar recounts ordinary A...

The overturning of  Roe v. Wade  was one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions of our lifetime. We now enter a new era in the pro-life movement where policy decisions have been returned to our elected officials, but that’s not the endgame. In the midst of culture wars in America, conservatives must ask the question: How do we build a society that pursues true justice and huma...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher invite Todd Abrajano, President and CEO of the United States Nuclear Industry Council to discuss the American nuclear industry’s role in the reemergence of commercial nuclear power around the world.&...

Today, America faces threats not seen since the height of the Cold War; but unlike back then, they come from an array of enemies and are more lethal thanks to emerging technologies. The war in Ukraine serves as a brutal example, but the threat posed by China takes this to a whole new level. What changes are needed to ensure our military can prevail when combat is required to protect our country’s...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer and Travis Fisher invite Richard Stern, Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation, to discuss the recent debt limit deal in Congress, its impact on American families, and th...

Are you ready for the government to take away your car? New proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency would require new car sales to be 60% electric by 2030, compared to fewer than 6% in 2022, so you might not be able to buy your preferred car. These regulations would make cars more expensive, reduce safety, and cause America to give up energy independence to China. Experts joi...

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. In this episode, hosts Jack Spencer, Travis Fisher, and Rachael Wilfong invite Stuart Saulters, Vice President of Government Relations with the American Public Gas Association to discuss how local, state, and federal regulation are reducing consumer choice a...

Carl Trueman, author of the Heritage Report “ Gender Ideology and the Future of the Human Person ,” unpacks the elements of gender ideology and connects them to the grand project of undermining the embodied person in favor of a transgender and transhumanist future. Listen to other Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues con...