The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Put your thinking cap on for this one, folks, and get ready to earn you PhD in thermodynamics! Jack invites Dr. Michael von Spakovsky to the Power Hour this week for a conversation that combines policy with technical, academic knowledge. Dr. von Spakovsky is a professor at Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering who has spent a career thinking about how complex systems, large and small, work. It turns out that this research can help us to better understand how things like our climate and energy use work. Rather than framing his perspective around political preference or policy, he understands physics. This allows him to see through the political gas lighting and get straight to the facts. You might need listen to this one twice but it will be worth it. You find out more about Dr. von Spakovsky’ s work here. Oh, and don’t forget to grab your copy of Nuclear Revolution . 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!

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 has a fascinating conversation about nuclear energy this week that you don’t want to miss. He talks with Dr. James Howe, a Coast Guard vet and leading expert on nuclear technology, policy, and industry. This wide-ranging discussion covers everything from challenges facing the nuclear industry to innovative uses for nuclear technology like space travel. Of course, Jack mentions his new book, Nuclear Revolution . Not to be outdone, Dr. Howe fires back with a discussion about his extremely interesting book, Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan’s Coast Guard, which you can get here. Jack whole-heartedly recommends this book only if you like awesome books. 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!

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 interviews Josh Spodek this week who is one of the most interesting people that has graced the Power Hour studio over the past couple of years. Josh is a long-time environmentalist and conservationist (and so much more) who doesn’t just talk about a commitment to the environment but lives it with each decision he makes. Rather than plying guilt or coercion, Josh explains how his choices have made his quality of life better and how we can do the same. You definitely want to check this one out. You can learn more about Josh’s journey and philosophy from his book, Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Solving All (Yes, All) of our Environmental Problems, available here for pre order now. And to impress that special someone for Valentines Day, Jack’s book, Nuclear Revolution will get the job done! 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 the book! And Josh’s too!

The growing coalition of Americans concerned about our country’s health presents a unique opportunity to confront the misalignment between our medical, health, agricultural systems, and the American people. A critical examination of corporate influence, government regulatory agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry reveals systemic issues contributing to our country’s health crisis.
Join us for an in-depth discussion of these critical issues as experts explore the origin of these challenges, the failed role of our public health systems, and the need for a comprehensive bipartisan effort to restore the good life and help Americans live the healthy life again.

Agenda

Keynote Remarks

• Kevin Roberts, Ph.D., President, The Heritage Foundation

Panel I: Failures of our Public Health Institutions

• The Hon. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Senator, U.S. Senate
• Martin Kulldorff, Epidemiologist
• Robert Redfield, Former Director of the CDC
• Roger Severino, Vice President, Domestic Policy, The Heritage Foundation (moderator)

Panel II: Food, Drugs, and America's Chronic Disease Epidemic

• Tammy Born Huizenga, Owner and Operator of Born Clinic, Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician
• Calley Means, Founder of Truemed and Co-Author of Good Energy
• Nina Teicholz, Investigative Science Journalist, Author, and Founder of the Nutrition Coalition
• Jay Richards, Director, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, The Heritage Foundation (moderator)

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 his guests today for an extremely interesting and informative conversation about a part of the nuclear industry that you might not know about: medical and industrial isotopes. The United States once led the world in the production of these critical elements but has fallen way behind in recent decades. Our guests today not only have kept the U.S. on the map with these life saving technologies but are working towards making the U.S. a leader once again. Matt Sanford is the executive director at the University of Missouri Research Reactor and Michael Hoehn is the program director for the NextGen MURR. In a nutshell, Matt oversees the production of life saving medical isotopes and other important industrial isotopes at the University of Missouri and Michael is in charge of getting a new reactor built to expand that capacity. This is important work on it own, but that the University of Missouri is one of an handful of labs in the U.S. doing this work makes their work critical. You will learn how these isotopes are produced, distributed and used in this podcast. Our promise to you is that you will be smarter after listening to this one. One more thing. Jack has a new book out called Nuclear Revolution, which you can get here here. If you want to be the smartest person at the dinner party and put those anti-nuclear people in their place, you want Nuclear Revolution . 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 the book!

The Power Hour is a weekly podcast that discusses the most interesting energy and environmental policy issues of the day with top national experts. Today’s guest is Sean Lawrie, Chief Strategy Office, Lumerra Corporation. If you like the perspective brought to you by the Power Hour, then you are going to love this conversation. Sean knows nuclear power and the energy sector and he is using the experience to bring greater efficiency to nuclear operations. No energy source will be successful if it is not economically competitive but with Sean working on the issue, the future of nuclear looks very bright. You will want to tune if to hear his fresh perspective. Oh, and did I mention that you can grab your copy of Nuclear Revolution here. If it’s the thought that counts, Nuclear Revolution the holiday gift that won’t disappoint. 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 the book!

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On July 17, 2024, the White House Council on Environmental Quality released a landmark report on new digital tools for modernizing infrastructure permitting and environmental review. The report, which was mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act, builds on efforts of the Trump administration to modernize permitting under the National Environmental Policy Act. The report tackles the obstacles created by the lack of transparency in the federal permitting process which needlessly increases the risk to investors while obscuring accountability in the democratic process.
Harmonizing and expanding data collection by agencies and making that data publicly accessible in a central repository has been a bipartisan commitment of Congress and presidents going back to the administration of George W. Bush. This report is an important step forward in that effort.
During this event, our panel of experts will expound on the necessity of these changes, what the new digital tools add to the permitting process, and what we can expect from the permitting process going forward.

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Panel I

• Vernadette Broyles, President and General Counsel, Child and Parental Rights Campaign
• Erin Hawley, Senior Counsel, Vice President of the Center for Life & Regulatory Practice, Alliance Defending Freedom
• Kim Hermann, Executive Director, Southeastern Legal Foundation

Panel II

• Tiffany Justice, Co-Founder, Moms for Liberty
• Melissa Moschella, Professor, University of Notre Dame Law School
• Michael Ramey, President, Parental Rights Foundation

Hosted by

• Sarah Parshall Perry, Senior Legal Fellow, Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation

From curriculum to school administration, gender affirming medicine to privacy, and opt-out rights to school surveys, parental rights are increasingly under attack. But what has the United States Supreme Court said about the nature of parental rights, and what do those rights include? What about statutory laws that directly impact the rights of parents of minor children—can they serve to shore up parental rights while the Supreme Court remains silent on the issue, as it has for 24 years and counting? Can a combination of litigation and legislation further strengthen the rights of parents to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children?
Join Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Sarah Parshall Perry and two panels of experts in family law and public policy as they provide answers to these questions and more during a half-day symposium on the American family in the crosshairs.

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