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01:12 — The endangerment finding rescinded in February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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Guests:

Rod Martin is an investor and commentator who tracks the intersection of finance, national security, and policy, and who called the Iran conflict and its oil implications months in advance on Fox Business.

Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a former RSBN anchor and infield reporter.

Topics covered:

• The Secure America Act signed into law: funding ICE and Border Patrol through 2029
• Codifying the border with HR 2 and closing immigration loopholes
• The Los Angeles election-fraud probe and the 43,000-vote swing
• 50 senators, no cloture, and Senator Thune's leadership
• Voter ID and the suppression myth (Tea Party Patriots Action / McLaughlin polling)
• FISA Section 702 and the strategy to pass the Save America Act
• Rod Martin on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices, and inflation
• ActBlue's CEO pleads the Fifth 22 times before Congress
• SPLC tax-exempt status, a $9 billion Minnesota fraud referral, and Elon Musk
• The child-trafficking story the media is burying

Chapters:

00:14 — Show open: the week in headlines

02:28 — Welcome and guest introductions

02:54 — Secure America Act signed: ICE and Border Patrol funded

09:04 — Codifying the border: HR 2 and closing loopholes

17:39 — Weekly call to action: pass the Save America Act

19:47 — Los Angeles election-fraud probe and the 43,000-vote swing

25:03 — 50 senators, no cloture, and Senator Thune

29:38 — Voter ID and the suppression myth

32:00 — FISA Section 702 and the must-pass strategy

39:22 — Rod Martin on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and oil

43:00 — May CPI hits a three-year high

46:08 — ActBlue CEO pleads the Fifth 22 times

49:53 — SPLC tax-exempt status

51:05 — A $9 billion fraud referral in Minnesota

52:02 — Elon Musk and the first trillionaire

53:42 — The story the media is burying: child trafficking

59:59 — Final call to action

01:00:25 — Babylon Bee satire: AOC vs. Thomas Sowell

Links:

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Guest: Noah Wall is the founder of the State Leadership Initiative, which he launched just over a year ago to expose and counter the network of unelected associations that shape state government. He previously worked closely with the State Financial Officers Foundation and has spent his career in grassroots conservative advocacy.

Key topics covered:

- What the “shadow government” of state-level associations actually is

- The Georgia Medicaid contract that penalized providers for following state parental-notification law

- Why red states often carry bigger bureaucracies than blue states

- How state membership dues quietly fund progressive “best practices”

- The State Leadership Index and the metrics no one else scores

- A three-part agenda: economic dynamism, financial strength, and digital sovereignty

- Concrete action steps for grassroots activists and elected officials

Timestamps (audio):

00:18 — Why Washington isn't the whole battle: meet Noah Wall and the State Leadership Initiative

00:57 — Launching SLI and the 20% tax-burden gap between red and blue states

02:44 — Defining the “shadow government”: the NGO networks behind state bureaucracies

04:06 — How the American Library Association and agency associations standardize policy

07:10 — Permanent bureaucracy and the professional associations that train it

11:17 — Inside the report: 25 associations, none centrist, and the Georgia Medicaid bombshell

15:29 — The National School Boards Association and how new members get “trained”

21:51 — Follow the money: state dues fund the associations — and states can simply withdraw

25:23 — A state-level DOGE: the fifth column states pay for with tax dollars

28:28 — Louisiana, abortion lobbying, and “health equity” in organ transplants

34:13 — The State Leadership Index: red states' hidden bureaucracy problem

39:36 — Every problem already solved somewhere: Florida, Nevada, Utah, Idaho

44:57 — The agenda: economic dynamism, financial strength, and digital sovereignty

51:48 — What grassroots activists can do — and the “Google the association” game

Links mentioned:

- stateleadership.org

- teapartypatriots.org

- jennybethshow.com