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#105: Pierre Desrochers on population and climate change (4/22/24) Pierre Desrochers is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His main research interests are economic development, technical innovation, business-environment interface, and energy policy and food policy. He has published over 50 academic articles on these and other subjects in a wide range of academic disciplines. Desrochers has been the recipient of several awards for his work on environmental policy issues, including the 2017 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award (Competitive Enterprise Institute). He is the author of over 200 op-eds on a variety of subjects in major international media including the Wall Street Journal and Le Monde. He is the author of The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet, arguably the broadest case made on behalf of the economic, social and environmental virtues of the modern agri-business and transportation industries. Book website: https://populationbombed.com Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993119034/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538048671&sr=1-1&keywords=Population+Bombed%21+Exploding+the+Link+Between+Overpopulation+and+Climate+Change Op-eds: https://populationbombed.com/op-eds/

#104: April FIER (Friends of IER) Podcast 4/11/24 Guests: Paige Lambermont: Paige is a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the Center for Energy and Environment. In her role, she covers the electrical grid, energy regulation, nuclear power issues, and other free-market energy topics. In 2024, Paige was selected to be a Visiting Fellow for the Independent Women’s Forum. Jordan McGillis: Jordan is City Journal’s Economics Editor. Previously, McGillis was a Manhattan Institute Paulson policy analyst. Before that, he was deputy director of policy at the Institute for Energy Research. McGillis’s research and writing on energy, technology, and economic progress have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the New York Post. He writes regularly for National Review and the American Spectator and he has been cited by the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, the Congressional Research Service, and the U.S Defense Department’s Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs. Travis Fisher: Travis is the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute. He has nearly 20 years of experience in energy policy, including leadership roles at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Institute for Energy Research, Department of Energy, Electricity Consumers Resource Council, and Heritage Foundation. Links: A Nuclear Plant's Closure Was Hailded As A Green Win. Then Emissions Went Up: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/nuclear-plant-closure-carbon-emissions-new-york How the Inflation Reduction Act Bankrolls EPA Overreach: https://www.cato.org/blog/how-inflation-reduction-act-bankrolls-epa-overreach Biden Administration Releases Its Electric Truck Mandate: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/biden-administration-releases-its-electric-truck-mandate/ Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/climate/climate-change-carbon-capture-ccs.html

#103: Caleb Jasso on Energy and Conflict in the Middle East (2-7-24) Links: How Will the Israel-Hamas Conflict Affect Oil Prices? - Discourse Magazine: https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/how-will-the-israel-hamas-conflict Rising Shipping Costs Will Impact Oil and LNG: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/rising-shipping-costs-will-impact-oil-and-lng/ Houthi Attacks Continue, Iran Launches Their Own: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/houthi-attacks-continue-iran-launches-their-own/

#102: Levi Russell on Energy and Economics (1/31/24) Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/levirussell No End in Sight for Our Gasoline Use: https://www.realclearenergy.org/2024/01/17/no_end_in_sight_for_our_gasoline_use_1005273.html Predictably, the Rush to Electric Cars Is Imploding: https://www.realclearenergy.org/2023/12/06/predictably_the_rush_to_electric_cars_is_imploding_997058.html Is Our Freedom of Movement in Peril? https://www.realclearenergy.org/2023/06/29/is_our_freedom_of_movement_in_peril_943760.html

#101: Isaac Orr on EPA's Power Plant Rule (8/21/23) Links: https://www.americanexperiment.org/reports/american-experiments-comments-on-the-environmental-protection-agencys-carbon-rule

#100: Jordan McGillis on self-driving cars Autonomous Now: Why We Need Self-Driving Technology and How We Can Get It Faster https://manhattan.institute/article/why-we-need-self-driving-technology-and-how-we-can-get-it-faster

#99: Kenny Stein hearings wrap up (6/2/23)

#98: Paige Lambermont on Germany's energy transition (5/23/23) Links: The Final Death Knell of German Nuclear Power: https://catalyst.independent.org/2023/04/25/death-german-nuclear-power/ Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/10/expensive-energy-may-have-killed-more-europeans-than-covid-19-last-winter

#97: Kenny Stein Testifies Before the House Natural Resources Committee (5/11/23) Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEOBqCZhldo&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fnaturalresources.house.gov%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

#96: Kenny Stein Testimony - Hearing: On the U.S. Tax Code Subsidizing Green Corporate Handouts and the Chinese Communist Party (4/19/23) Full hearing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8FSgDMEzdK7j3lsQ4G4L0A Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNb7DoS7Qw&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjM4NTE&feature=emb_title IER’s Kenny Stein to Testify Before the House Ways and Means Committee - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/iers-kenny-stein-to-testify-before-the-house-ways-and-means-committee/

#95: Kenny Stein on H.R. 1 (3/24/23) IER & NRDC Debate H.R. 1 Hosted By CSPAN: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/ier-nrdc-debate-hosted-by-cspan/ House Releases Its Energy Bill to Promote More American Energy: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/house-releases-its-energy-bill-to-promote-more-american-energy/

#94: The Environmental Quality Index (2/24/23) Links: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/ier-report-shows-restricting-domestic-oil-and-natural-gas-production-leads-to-negative-environmental-outcomes/

#93: Jason Hayes and Dr. Tim Nash on the importance of natural gas (12/20/22) Link to paper: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a2019062aeba5077af06fc9/t/637cf25ccf66aa26baaf19d9/1669132904200/Study+PDF.pdf

#92: Todd Myers discusses his new book on environmental technologies (11/16/22) Time to Think Small: How Nimble Environmental Technologies Can Solve the Planet's Biggest Problems https://www.amazon.com/Time-Think-Small-Environmental-Technologies-ebook/dp/B09XWBQ4XQ

Hearing: https://naturalresources.house.gov/hearings/emr-legislative-hearing_september-20-2022

#90: Kenny Stein on the Inflation Reduction Act

#89: Dr. Patrick Allitt on the Industrial Revolution Links: http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/allitt-patrick.html https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/patrick-n-allitt

#88: Alex Trembath on Ecomodernism Links: http://www.ecomodernism.org https://thebreakthrough.org

#87 Jason Crawford on progress Links: https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop https://rootsofprogress.org/can-growth-continue-ignite-talk https://rootsofprogress.org/why-pessimism-sounds-smart

#86: Jordan McGillis on carbon border tariffs (5/17/22) Carbon Border Adjustment Policy Brief: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/carbon-border-adjustment-policy-brief/