#81: Todd Myers on unleashing energy innovation

https://www.thecgo.org/research/leapfrogging-smart-meters/

#81: Todd Myers on unleashing energy innovation

#89: Dr. Patrick Allitt on the Industrial Revolution

Links:

http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/allitt-patrick.html

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/patrick-n-allitt

#89: Dr. Patrick Allitt on the Industrial Revolution

#93: Jason Hayes and Dr. Tim Nash on the importance of natural gas (12/20/22)

Link to paper: 

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2019062aeba5077af06fc9/t/637cf25ccf66aa26baaf19d9/1669132904200/Study+PDF.pdf

#93: Jason Hayes and Dr. Tim Nash on the importance of natural gas (12/20/22)

#103: Caleb Jasso on Energy and Conflict in the Middle East (2-7-24)

Links:

How Will the Israel-Hamas Conflict Affect Oil Prices? - Discourse Magazine: https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/how-will-the-israel-hamas-conflict

Rising Shipping Costs Will Impact Oil and LNG: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/rising-shipping-costs-will-impact-oil-and-lng/

Houthi Attacks Continue, Iran Launches Their Own:  https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/houthi-attacks-continue-iran-launches-their-own/

#103: Caleb Jasso on Energy and Conflict in the Middle East (2-7-24)

#104:  April FIER (Friends of IER) Podcast 4/11/24

Guests:

Paige Lambermont:  Paige is a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the Center for Energy and Environment. In her role, she covers the electrical grid, energy regulation, nuclear power issues, and other free-market energy topics. In 2024, Paige was selected to be a Visiting Fellow for the Independent Women’s Forum.

Jordan McGillis:  Jordan is City Journal’s Economics Editor. Previously, McGillis was a Manhattan Institute Paulson policy analyst. Before that, he was deputy director of policy at the Institute for Energy Research. McGillis’s research and writing on energy, technology, and economic progress have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the New York Post. He writes regularly for National Review and the American Spectator and he has been cited by the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, the Congressional Research Service, and the U.S Defense Department’s Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs.

Travis Fisher:  Travis is the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute. He has nearly 20 years of experience in energy policy, including leadership roles at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Institute for Energy Research, Department of Energy, Electricity Consumers Resource Council, and Heritage Foundation.

Links:

A Nuclear Plant's Closure Was Hailded As A Green Win. Then Emissions Went Up:  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/nuclear-plant-closure-carbon-emissions-new-york

How the Inflation Reduction Act Bankrolls EPA Overreach:  https://www.cato.org/blog/how-inflation-reduction-act-bankrolls-epa-overreach 

Biden Administration Releases Its Electric Truck Mandate:  https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/biden-administration-releases-its-electric-truck-mandate/

Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/climate/climate-change-carbon-capture-ccs.html

#104:  April FIER (Friends of IER) Podcast 4/11/24

#105:  Pierre Desrochers on population and climate change (4/22/24)

Pierre Desrochers is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His main research interests are economic development, technical innovation, business-environment interface, and energy policy and food policy. He has published over 50 academic articles on these and other subjects in a wide range of academic disciplines. Desrochers has been the recipient of several awards for his work on environmental policy issues, including the 2017 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award (Competitive Enterprise Institute). He is the author of over 200 op-eds on a variety of subjects in major international media including the Wall Street Journal and Le Monde. He is the author of The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet, arguably the broadest case made on behalf of the economic, social and environmental virtues of the modern agri-business and transportation industries.

Book website:
https://populationbombed.com

Buy on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993119034/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538048671&sr=1-1&keywords=Population+Bombed%21+Exploding+the+Link+Between+Overpopulation+and+Climate+Change

Op-eds:  https://populationbombed.com/op-eds/

#105:  Pierre Desrochers on population and climate change (4/22/24)

#106:  Andrew McConn on tech in energy and offshore drilling (5/8/24)

Links:

Enverus website:  https://www.enverus.com

Defying peak oil predictions:  https://www.enverus.com/newsroom/defying-peak-oil-predictions/

Andrew's testimony at the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources oversight hearing titled “Assessing Solutions to Secure America's Offshore Energy Future” on Thursday, April 18, 2024:  https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=415851

#106:  Andrew McConn on tech in energy and offshore drilling (5/8/24)

#107: Travis Fisher on recent developments at FERC

Links:

FERC’s Order No. 1920: A Costly Shell Game https://www.cato.org/blog/fercs-order-no-1920-costly-shell-game

#107: Travis Fisher on recent developments at FERC

#108: Kenny Stein and Alex Stevens discuss IER's 2024 North American Energy Inventory

Links:

2024 North American Energy Inventory:  https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-North-American-Energy-Inventory.pdf

Fossil Fuels: An Expanding Resource:  https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/fossil-fuels-an-expanding-resource/

#108: Kenny Stein and Alex Stevens Discuss IER's 2024 North American Energy Inventory (6/4/24)

#121: Dr. Bruce Bunker on climate change (3/20/25) 

The Mythology of Global Warming: Climate Change Fiction VS. Scientific Facts

https://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Global-Warming-Climate-Scientific/dp/1945181478

#121: Dr. Bruce Bunker on climate change (3/20/25)

#122 Caleb Jasso on Greenland, Ukraine, and global trade (3/25/25)

#124: Nick Loris and Josh Smith on full expensing (5/21/25)

Links:

Paper:
https://www.c3solutions.org/policy-paper/full-expensing-is-pro-growth-pro-environment-policy/

#124: Nick Loris and Josh Smith on full expensing (5/21/25)

#9 Currents: An Energy Update (5/26/25-5/30/25)

Links:

Nuclear Conversion: https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/nuclearenergywinning


#9 Currents: An Energy Update (5/26/25-5/30/25)

#10 Currents: An Energy Update (6/2/25-6/6/25)

Supreme Court limits agency environmental reviews: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/29/supreme-court-limits-agency-environmental-reviews-00374122

United States and Saudi Arabia Engage in Energy and Critical Mineral Deals: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/united-states-and-saudi-arabia-engage-in-energy-and-critical-mineral-deals/

#10 Currents: An Energy Update (6/2/25-6/6/25)

#11 Currents: An Energy Update (6/9/25-6/13/25)

Links: 

WILL THE NEW NUCLEAR EXECUTIVE ORDERS JUMPSTART THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS?: https://mestes.substack.com/p/will-the-new-nuclear-executive-orders

Wind and Solar Tax Credits are Destroying the Grid: https://www.independent.org/article/2025/01/28/wind-tax-credits-destroying-grid/


#11 Currents: An Energy Update (6/9/25-6/13/25)

#12 Currents: An Energy Update (6/16/25-6/20/25)

Links:

China Is Using Coal to Produce Liquid Fuels: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/china-is-using-coal-to-produce-liquid-fuels/

#12 Currents: An Energy Update (6/16/25-6/20/25)

#125: Institute for Energy Research & C3 Solutions – Climate Change Superfund Act Webinar (6/17/25)

Links:

Video of Webinar: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/institute-for-energy-research-c3-solutions-climate-change-superfund-act-webinar/

New York State’s New Climate “Superfund Law”: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/new-york-states-new-climate-superfund-law/

#125: Institute for Energy Research & C3 Solutions – Climate Change Superfund Act Webinar (6/17/25)

#13 Currents: An Energy Update (6/23/25-6/27/25)

Links: 

The Senate Finance Committee’s Reconciliation Draft Is a Step in the Wrong Direction: https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2025/06/the-senate-finance-committees-reconciliation-draft-is-a-step-in-the-wrong-direction/

Institute for Energy Research & C3 Solutions – Climate Change Superfund Act Webinar: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/institute-for-energy-research-c3-solutions-climate-change-superfund-act-webinar/

#13 Currents: An Energy Update (6/23/25-6/27/25)

#14 Currents: An Energy Update (7/7/25-7/11/25)

Links: 

The Energy Vibe Shift Is Real: https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/the-energy-vibe-shift-is-real

Poll Shows That Americans Want Energy Abundance, Not Climate Catastrophism: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/poll-shows-that-americans-want-energy-abundance-not-climate-catastrophism/

#14 Currents: An Energy Update (7/7/25-7/11/25)

#14.5 Currents: An Energy Updates — Discussing the Big Beautiful Bill with IER's Kenny Stein

Links: 

Kenny Stein: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/about/kstein/

Summary of Key Provisions in The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/summary-of-key-provisions-in-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/

Don’t Fall for the Phase-Out Fallacy: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/dont-fall-for-the-phase-out-fallacy/

#14.5 Currents: An Energy Update — Discussing the Big Beautiful Bill with IER's Kenny Stein

#15 Currents: An Energy Update (7/14/25-7/18/25)

Links:

Can oil and gas solve the AI power dilemma?: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/oil-gas-ai-power-data-center/751611/

Renewable Energy Project Cancellations Spike in Texas: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/renewable-energy-project-cancellations-spike-in-texas/

#15 Currents: An Energy Update (7/14/25-7/18/25)

#16 Currents: An Energy Update (7/21/25-7/25/25)

Links: 

How “Green” Wind and Solar Could Trash the Planet: https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/how-green-wind-and-solar-could-trash

America was already losing to China on clean energy. Trump just sealed its fate: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/climate/china-us-wind-solar-energy-trump

#16 Currents: An Energy Update (7/21/25-7/25/25)

#17 Currents: An Energy Update (7/28/25-8/1/25)

Links: 

Why Selling Public Lands Makes Sense: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/why-selling-public-lands-makes-sense/

Rethinking Carbon Taxes in the Fight Against Climate Change: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-world/rethinking-carbon-taxes-in-the-fight-against-climate-change

Beyond Pigou: Externalities and Civil Society in the Supply-Demand Framework: https://www.nber.org/papers/w31095

#17 Currents: An Energy Update (7/28/25-8/1/25)

#18 Currents: An Energy Update (8/4/25-8/8/25) — featuring Mackinac's Joshua Antonini

Joshua Antonini: https://www.mackinac.org/about/staff/890

EPA Moves to Rescind the Obama-Era Endangerment Finding: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/epa-moves-to-rescind-the-obama-era-endangerment-finding/


#18 Currents: An Energy Update (8/4/25-8/8/25) — featuring Mackinac's Joshua Antonini

#19 Currents: An Energy Update (8/11/25-8/15/25)

Links: 

200 Actions the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Have Taken to Unleash Our Energy Potential: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/200-actions-the-trump-administration-and-congressional-republicans-have-taken-to-unleash-our-energy-potential/

#19 Currents: An Energy Update (8/11/25-8/15/25)

#20 Currents: An Energy Update (8/18/25-8/22/25)

Links:

We’re Asking the Wrong Question About Natural Gas: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/were-asking-the-wrong-question-about-natural-gas/

Beneficial Bloodsucking: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bioe.70015?af=R

#20 Currents: An Energy Update (8/18/25-8/22/25)

#21 Currents: An Energy Update (8/25/25-8/29/25)

Links: 

Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist: https://www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/why-i-stopped-being-a-climate-catastrophist

Finally, an Unbiased and Objective Climate Science Report: https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2025/08/16/finally_an_unbiased_and_objective_climate_science_report_1129196.html

Plugged In Podcast #115: Re-release — Chris Wright on how energy lifts people out of poverty: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/plugged-in-podcast-115-re-release-chris-wright-on-how-energy-lifts-people-out-of-poverty/



#21 Currents: An Energy Update (8/25/25-8/29/25)

#22 Currents: An Energy Update (9/1/25-9/5/25)

Links:

No, Western nations do not subsidize fossil fuels!: https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/no-western-nations-do-not-subsidize

Germany Chose Wind and Solar. Now, Its Citizens Are Paying the Price.: https://www.powerthefuture.com/germany-chose-wind-and-solar-now-its-citizens-are-paying-the-price


#22 Currents: An Energy Update (9/1/25-9/5/25)

#23 Currents: An Energy Update (9/8/25-9/12/25)

Links: 

Energy Appreciation Day: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/energy-appreciation-day/

Peak Population: Prepare for a Shrinking World: https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/peak-population-but-we-can-all-move-to-texas/


#23 Currents: An Energy Update (9/8/25-9/12/25)

The team sits down with Chris Brown, director of policy & research at Common Sense Policy Roundtable, to discuss what the passage of SB-181 could mean for energy producers in Colorado and consumers around the country.

Links:
•	More about CSPR: 
https://commonsensepolicyroundtable.org/

•	A comprehensive study on the effects of SB-181:
https://commonsensepolicyroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/REMI-Partnership-SB-181-Study.pdf

#21: Chris Brown, of the CSPR, on the economic impacts of SB-181 in Colorado (3-20-19)

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