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 Ben Lieberman, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.    Anchored by a discussion of his recent article describing how green energy subsidies artificially increase demand for Rare Earth Minerals, Ben and Jack cover a variety of issues including how government efficiency standard hurt American consumers and  why made up, leftist “holidays” like “World Car-Free Day” are ridiculous.  

As always, you can join the conversation at  [email protected]!  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 Joel Spangenberg of CORE Power to discuss the promise of using nuclear energy to power commercial ships and to provide floating nuclear power plants for emergency power or even to bring electricity to regions that lack modern energy infrastructure.    Could nuclear energy be the key to reestablishing American shipbuilding leadership?   Will the nations that master maritime nuclear energy  be those that dominate the future?  What do Russia and China think about that?  Check out this conversation to find out!

You can learn more about CORE Power and sign up for their very informative newsletter here.   

As always, you can join the conversation at  [email protected]!  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 welcomes Power Hour alum, Nick Loris, Executive Vice President for Policy at C3 Solutions, to the program this week for a wide-ranging discussion on climate, how the U.S. can win in a commercial nuclear energy competition with Russia and China, and loan guarantees.  Stay until the end for a heated, but good-natured debate on government loan guarantees for energy projects.  Guess what side Jack takes?   Loris puts up a good fight, but you decide who wins.  Email us and let us know!     

You can learn more about C3 Solutions and Nick’s great work here and check out C3’s online News Magazine here, where you can also sign up for their weekly newsletter.  

As always, you can join the conversation at  [email protected]!  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.  Most of us agree that nuclear energy is safe, reliable, and clean.  But one question that remains in the United States is what to do with the waste.  One country that is well on its way to solving that problem is France and part of their solution is recycling it and the company that provides that service is Orano.  Orano doesn’t just do work in France but are an important part of America’s commercial nuclear industry that is why Jack is excited to welcome Orano-USA CEO Jean-Luc Palayer to the Power Hour.  Join Jack and Jean-Luc for a full ranging discussion on fueling American’s reactors, the potential for recycling the spent fuel to help manage nuclear waste in the United States, and much more. 

As always, you can join the conversation at  [email protected]!  Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution, and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America, where you can see footage from France’s recycling facility .  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 welcomes entrepreneur, media personality, and small farmer Elaine Culotti to the podcast this week.  You might know Elaine from Discovery’s Undercover Billionaire or her real estate adventures, and now you will get to know her as a rancher and farmer.  Jack and Elaine have a wide ranging and light hearted discussion on everything from how to better get farm fresh food to more Americans to how she become of our nation’s most successful entrepreneurs.   

You can learn more about Eliane and her many projects at elaineculotti.com and follow her on Instagram @lipstickfarmer.  

As always, you can join the conversation at  [email protected]!  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. 

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed last week that ‘Arctic Frost’—the FBI's election-related investigation into President Donald Trump, launched in 2022 by the Biden administration—issued 197 subpoenas for 430 conservatives, including the late Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, Ed Martin, Dan Scavino, and Ed Corrigan.

This investigation was used as a method to spy on the conservative movement as a whole. Mike Howell, President of the Oversight Project, joins the show to talk about why Arctic Frost demands accountability. 

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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.  Jack welcomes Joshua Spodek back to the Power Hour this week for another fascinating conversation about his unique journey in finding life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through sustainable living.  Way more than just a guy who picks up after himself, Josh is an author, academic, and entrepreneur--he is a someone we can learn from as we work to live up to our own personal standards. 

You can learn more about Josh here and check out his most recent book, Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems.

As always, you can join the conversation at  [email protected]!  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.  Tired of oil, global warming, and nuclear power? Then you don’t want to miss this fascinating conversation with Mollie Engelhart who tell us about how her commitment to conservation informed her evolution from LA vegan restauranteur to Texas rancher and so, so much more!  She tells the story in her new book, “Debunked by Nature: How a Vegan-Chef-Turned-Regenerative-Farmer Discovered that Mother Nature is a Conservative.” 

Check out Mollie’s Texas ranch, Sovereignty Ranch.    And definitely check out here book.      

You can follow Mollie on Instagram @talktomollie.

As always, you can join the conversation at  [email protected]!  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. 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  [email protected]!  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  [email protected]!  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.