Plugged In

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.

We sit down with Paul Driessen, a senior policy advisor with the Center For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)and with Defense of Free Enterprise, to discuss the impending corporate scandal surrounding Bloom Energy.

Links:

• Paul Driessen's latest on Bloom Energy

https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/09/22/bloom-energys-tangled-web-n2521444

• Full video of the recent Heritage Foundation panel on Bloom Energy

https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/event/the-fuel-cell-corporate-scandal-delaware-citizens-forced-subsidize

IER's policy team discusses problems with the the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)and the potential for reform.

Learn more about NEPA here:

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/delays-lawsuits-and-immigration-controls-the-many-abuses-of-nepa/

Alex and Jordan sit down with IER’s Senior Economist Dr. Robert Murphy to discuss carbon taxes.

Links

• Robert Murphy on IPCC data

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/using-ipcc-defeat-un-climate-agenda/

• The Case Against a U.S. Carbon Tax

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/case-against-us-carbon-tax

• Robert Murphy on climate insurance

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/uncategorized/switching-markets-save-15-percent-climate-insurance/

• The Benefits of Procrastination: The Economics of Geo-engineering

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2009/Murphygeoengineering.html

• Carbon Taxes and the “Tax Interaction Effect”

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2012/Murphycarbon.html

• More from Robert Murphy on the tax interaction effect

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/uncategorized/carbon-taxes-more-destructive-than-you-think-clarifying-the-tax-interaction-effect/

• Rolling the DICE – William Nordhaus’s Dubious Case for a Carbon Tax

http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=751

• Dr. Robert Murphy testifies before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWHfPlXX14

IER's policy team discusses possible impacts of recently proposed changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

IER's director of policy, Kenny Stein, discusses key rulings issued by Brett Kavanaugh and what his appointment to the Supreme Court would mean for the energy sector.