Steve Milloy is an attorney and senior fellow at the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute. A veteran of more than three decades of environmental and energy policy work, including time in the coal industry, he writes widely on climate regulation, the EPA, and the administrative state.

Key topics covered:

• The EPA endangerment finding rollback and what it means for energy policy
• West Virginia v. EPA and why the agency lacked authority to regulate greenhouse gases
• The Department of Justice’s contradictory Suncor Trust v. Boulder County brief
• Data centers, energy demand, foreign money, and eminent domain
• The collapse of coal and rising electricity prices
• Wind, solar, and the real costs of the green agenda
• Refrigerant rules, the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020, and the Kigali Amendment
• What an incoming El Niño actually means

Timestamps:

00:18 — Welcome and the episode’s focus on energy and the administrative state

00:46 — How the deep state is undermining the EPA at the Justice Department

01:12 — The endangerment finding rescinded in February

01:54 — The Supreme Court line: Massachusetts v. EPA to West Virginia v. EPA

03:48 — Suncor Trust v. Boulder County and federal preemption

05:57 — The contradictory DOJ brief that could backfire

09:45 — Should the brief be pulled, and should the attorneys be held accountable

11:38 — Why no one is overseeing the deep state lawyers

13:00 — The endangerment finding as the centerpiece of Trump’s energy agenda

15:38 — Data centers, Elon Musk, and the energy crunch

20:50 — Foreign money funding green activist groups

22:31 — Eminent domain and a Georgia family’s property fight

25:47 — The water fight over data centers

29:39 — States moving to ban data centers

36:09 — Reviving coal and what killed it

39:23 — Burning coal, exporting gas, and LNG terminals

40:46 — Wind, solar, and where NIMBY actually makes sense

43:10 — How conservatives ceded the environmental issue

46:09 — Clean air, clean water, and China’s record

49:01 — National parks, Agenda 21, and Alaska

52:55 — Refrigerant rules and why your soda is warm

55:48 — The AIM Act, the Kigali Amendment, and the ozone debate

1:00:16 — El Niño and what to actually worry about

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