The team sits down with Marian Tupy, a senior policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, to discuss the work of the late economist Julian Simon and the condition of human progress.

Links:

• More from Marian on human flourishing:

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/population-growth-leads-abundant-resources

• Lean more about the Cato Institute:

www.cato.org/

The IER team discusses changes to management of federal lands proposed by the Bureau of Land Management and the possible impacts to the greater sage grouse and American energy production.

Read more: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/are-we-finally-free-of-fowl-folly-and-frog-foolery/

IER's policy team discusses the causes of the Yellow Vest protests across France and the possible impacts the popular uprising could have on the global climate change movement.

Read more on the protests here: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/macrons-carbon-tax-disaster/

Alex and Jordan sit down with economist and former Trump advisor Stephen Moore to discuss his new book "Trumponomics" as well as pressing issues in trade and energy.

Links:

• Get a copy of "Trumponomics":

https://www.amazon.com/Trumponomics-Inside-America-Revive-Economy/dp/1250193710

• Moore's latest from the Heritage Foundation:

https://www.heritage.org/staff/stephen-moore

Alex sits down with Colin Grabow, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, to discuss problems with the Jones Act and the law's impact on American energy.

Links:

• More from Colin on issues surrounding the Jones Act:

https://www.cato.org/blog/jones-act-isnt-working-just-ask-its-supporters

• Details about Cato's upcoming event on the Jones Act:

https://www.cato.org/events/jones-act-charting-new-course-after-century-failure

• Lean more about the Cato Institute:

https://www.cato.org/

Alex and Jordan sit down with Don Watkins, the Director of Education at the Center for Industrial Progress, to discuss the "anti-human" attitudes of the green movement and the importance of ideas in the energy debate.

Links:

• The official summary of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, edited by Don Watkins:

http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MCFF-two_sheet_20170315.pdf

• Lean more about the Center for Industrial Progress:

http://industrialprogress.com/

Alex and Jordan sit down with Isaac Orr, a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, to discuss energy policy in Minnesota and the trend of premature retirement of coal fired power plants across the country.

Links:

• More from Isaac on premature retiring of coal plants:

https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/how-to-prevent-the-premature-retirement-of-coal-fired-power-plants

• Lean more about the Center of the American Experiment:

https://www.americanexperiment.org/

Alex and Jordan sit down with Krisztina Pusok, Director of Policy and Research at the American Consumer Institute, to discuss the Trump administration's plans to replace the Obama-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

Links:

• SAFE: A Sane Approach to U.S. Consumer Vehicle Safety, written by Krisztina Pusok

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2018/10/11/safe_a_sane_approach_to_us_consumer_vehicle_fuel_efficiency_110351.html

• More from the American Consumer Institute

http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/

Alex and Jordan sit down with Todd Myers, the Director of the Center for the Environment at the Washington Policy Center, to discuss the Washington State ballot initiative to impose a carbon tax on the state.

Links:

• A Citizens' Guide to Initiative 1631: to impose a state carbon tax on energy use in Washington state, written by Todd Meyers

https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/citizens-guide-to-initiative-1631-to-impose-a-state-carbon-tax-on-energy-use-in-washington-state

• More from the Washington Policy Center

https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/

Kelly Sloan, Energy and Environment Fellow at the Centennial Institute, joins the Plugged In podcast to break down a measure on Colorado’s ballot in November impacting the state’s oil and gas industry. Sloan discusses the impact this measure would have on the state and why even those outside of Colorado should be watching this proposition as it would have far-reaching consequences.