Episodios

  • The Power Hour | What did the Dept of Energy say about climate change with Travis Fisher & Kevin Dayaratna
    Aug 25 2025

    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 thepowerhour@heritage.org! 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.

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    51 m
  • The Power Hour | Big News on Global Warming Policy with Daren Bakst
    Aug 14 2025

    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 thepowerhour@heritage.org! 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.

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    50 m
  • The Power Hour | The Energy Provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill with Mario Loyola
    Jul 24 2025

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the day’s most interesting energy and environmental policy issues with top national experts. Join Jack this week for an informative discussion with his Heritage Foundation colleague and policy expert, Mario Loyola. With years of experience in think tanks, academia, and government, Mario brings a unique perspective and is the perfect person to help us to understand the energy provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill. Jack and Mario’s discussion covers the horizon of topics, including subsidies, regulation, and energy markets. And if you listen close, there might even be a mini-debate in there some place.

    You can check out Mario’s outstanding work here.

    As always, you can join the conversation at thepowerhour@heritage.org! 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.

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    45 m
  • The Power Hour | A Conversation with Incoming American Nuclear Society President, Dr. Hash Hashemian
    Jul 8 2025

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack is joined today by Dr. H.M. “Hash” Hashemian . Dr. Hashemian is not only one of the nation’s most impressive nuclear energy industry leaders as President and CEO of AMS Corporation, but he just began his tenure as President of the American Nuclear Society. Dr. Hashemian brings his unique perspective to a host of issues during this week’s conversation.

    Don’t forget to check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution The Heritage Foundation’s documentary Powering America. Join the conversation at thepowerhour@heritage.org! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word. And buy both books!

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    49 m
  • The Power Hour | A Discussion About Iran’s Nuclear Program with Kirk Sorensen
    Jul 1 2025

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Jack invites Kirk Sorensen, Founder and Chief Technologist at the nuclear energy technology company, Flibe Energy , to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. The two discuss the ins and outs of the sorts of capabilities a country like Iran needs to build a weapon and what was being done at each site that was bombed. They even get into so spicy policy discussions and throw out some rather provocative questions about non proliferation policy that are worth thinking about further.

    Kirk is one of the nation’s preeminent experts on nuclear energy and you will want to check out what he has to say on his Linkedin page here and check out Flibe Energy’s great advanced nuclear technology here.

    As always, you can join the conversation at thepowerhour@heritage.org! Check out Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution to learn how to advance commercial nuclear energy in the U.S., and our nuclear energy documentary, Powering America to see what a peaceful nuclear fuel program actually looks like! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

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    1 h y 7 m
  • The Power Hour | Will President Trump’s Nuclear Energy Executive Orders Result in a Policy Revolution with guest host Virginia Allen
    Jun 28 2025

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. The Heritage Foundation’s Virginia Allen takes over hosting responsibilities today to lead us through a discussion about President Trump’s executive orders on nuclear energy policy with a familiar guest: Jack Spencer. Virginia and Jack discuss how the EO’s could have major impact on the future of nuclear energy how many of their policies align with much of what we’ve discussed on the Power Hour.

    Will they lead to a Nuclear Revolution ? Tune in to find out. And don’t forget to watch The Heritage Foundation’s documentary Powering America to learn more about how nuclear energy works.. Join the conversation at thepowerhour@heritage.org! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.

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    1 h
  • The Power Hour | Can We Believe All We Are Told About Climate Change with Dr. Willie Soon
    Jun 24 2025

    The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Join Jack and astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon on this week's episode to get an education on why you shouldn't believe everything you hear about climate change. Dr. Soon is the Co-Team Leader of the Center for Environmental Research and Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Earth Physics and Space Science. He's also been one of the most outspoken and credible critics of establishment global warming science for decades.


    If you want to know what the science actually says about global warming, you want a o check out Dr. Soon's work and this podcast will be a great start. You read a recent paper Dr. Soon and his colleagues wrote for Heritage here about the unreliability of global warming data, and you can learn more about his organization, CERES, here. And here is a pro tip: sign up for their newsletter!

    As always, you can join the conversation at thepowerhour@heritage.org! Thank you for listening and please don’t forget to subscribe and help us to spread the word.


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    54 m
  • Events | Is the Sky Falling? Reconsidering the Endangerment Finding
    Jun 6 2025

    In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment Finding labeled greenhouse gas emissions a threat to public health and welfare. Now, with mounting empirical evidence, improved climate models, and real-world observations, the EPA is reconsidering that determination. New data reveals a more nuanced climate reality than in 2009.
    Climate policy continues to carry enormous economic and legal implications, and reconsidering the Endangerment Finding is both justified and necessary.
    Panel: The Failures of Carbon Pricing and Associated Policy Implications

    • Kevin D. Dayaratna, PhD, Acting Director, Chief Statistician, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Data Analysis, The Heritage Foundation
    • Ross McKitrick, PhD, Professor of Economics, University of Guelph
    • Benjamin Zycher, PhD, Senior Fellow of Energy and Environmental Policy, American Enterprise Institute
    • Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment and The Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, The Heritage Foundation (moderator)
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    1 h y 10 m