Plugged In

The team sits down with Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, to discuss the current state of energy development on public lands and what policies are needed to unleash America's energy potential.

Links:

• More about the Western Energy Alliance:

https://www.westernenergyalliance.org/

• More from Kathleen on this issue:

https://www.westernenergyalliance.org/blog/public-lands-energize-more-recreation-economy

• IER's Hunter Pearl on issues related to endangered species:

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

The team sits down with Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services & Chairman of Liberty Resources, to discuss the direct link of how hydrocarbons lift people out of poverty.

Links:

• More about Chris and Liberty Oilfield Services:

http://www.libertyfrac.com/about-us/

• Deforestation on Hispaniola:

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/hati-deforestation.jpg

The team sits down with Jason Hayes, of the Mackinac Center, and Issac Orr, of the Center of the American Experiment, to discuss the polar vortex in the Midwest and what energy policies are making the situation worse for consumers.

Links:

More from Jason Hayes on this issue:

https://www.mackinac.org/26245

Jason Hayes on Michigan's renewable energy:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-california-billionaire-sets-michigans-energy-policy-1529706888

More from Issac Orr on this Issue:

https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/02/star-tribune-bitter-cold-shows-reliable-energy-sources-critical/

More from IER on this issue:

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/bad-policies-cause-prices-spike-northeast/

Electricity map:

https://www.electricitymap.org

Corrections:

UMERC is a WEC Subsidiary - WE Energy / Wisconsin Public Service. Northwestern Power is an Xcel subsidiary.

The team talks with IER Board of Directors member professor Steven Hayward about the "Green New Deal" and why he thinks the environment is too important to be left to the environmentalists.

Read more from Hayward here:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/author/steven

More on the "Green New Deal" here:

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/flaws-with-a-green-new-deal-part-1-of-2/

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/