Who actually runs this country? Voters asked for real change in November, and Donald Trump and his team are doing all they can to deliver it as quickly as possible. Yet federal judges use questionable authority to thwart it, keeping the Deep State status quo of unaccountable opposition to the people’s will — which includes shoveling YOUR MONEY to their connected leftist cronies.

Who is really in charge of the Executive Branch of the United States? The Constitution says it’s the president, who was elected by all the people to direct the administrative state. The legacy media and even some conservative legal scholars say: “It’s complicated.” Is it, really?

On episode #488 of The Heartland Institute’s In the Tank Podcast, host Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and S.T. Karnick discuss the escalating resistance to the restoration of a government that serves the people and its elected representatives, instead of the other way around.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
3:30 Terrorism Against Tesla
20:58 More Spending from Congress
36:53 German Wind Farm Scrapped
56:36 Is the Autopen Legal?
1:01:44 District Court Overreach

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 487 of the In The Tank Podcast. Former ITT host Donald Kendal returns after only a few months and the world has gone insane. Suddenly, the left is burning the most popular electric vehicles while a Republican President promotes them in front of the White House. No, the world did not go insane, it was driven to insanity by an incredibly corrupt media system - a media system that has lied to us about virtually everything. We cover some more examples of this on this week's episode.

The Heartland Institute's Tim Benson wrote a paper analyzing the money funneled to green groups through the Inflation Reduction Act, where everything predictably cost way more than our government claimed. The Supreme Court decided that a district judge could tell the President when and how to pay USAID contractors, and Canada retaliates against Trump's tariffs. The President gave his first address to Congress, to the surprise of no one, the Democrats hated it.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, Sam Karnick, and Tim Benson will discuss all of this and more on this episode of the In The Tank podcast.

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The FBI is investigating an alleged "honeypot" operation against the 2016 Trump campaign, in which Comey's FBI may have planted female agents to try to compromise Trump. It has been a tough week for our mainstream media elites—multiple MSM personalities were fired or retired, and Jake Tapper is pretending he wasn’t involved in covering up Biden’s obvious decline. Bezos cracks the whip on The Washington Post Opinion section writers, and the White House Correspondents' Association loses its special status as press pool wranglers.

The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo will discuss all this and more on this episode of the In The Tank podcast.

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The "experts" are still trying to rewrite the narrative on the government response to COVID, and one of President Trump's picks supports the questionable PRO Act. Meanwhile, VP Vance had strong words for the Orwellian language controls in Germany, and DOGE continues to uncover corrupt and wasteful government spending.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo will discuss all of this and more on this episode of the In The Tank podcast.

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For decades, Greenpeace activists have used the legal system, “direct action,” vandalism, and even violence against energy companies and workers. Well, the tables have turned BIG TIME. A North Dakota jury decided this week that Greenpeace must pay oil company Energy Transfer a staggering $667 million for inciting protests, encouraging violence, and damaging the company’s reputation. Before the verdict, Greenpeace USA said such a decision would bankrupt the organization and drive it to extinction. Well, Greenpeace are the dinosaurs and that case is their asteroid.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will discuss this staggering decision — rare moment when radical environmental activists are held accountable for their disruptive and destructive actions.

We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, which includes the FBI opening criminal fraud investigations against those involved in the Biden EPA’s climate grift, while an Obama-appointed judge has delayed the clawback of the $20 billion in grants because there is “no evidence” of fraud. There’s also more bad news for unreliable wind power, Tesla vandalism continues unabated, and we’ve learned the Biden administration buried a report by its own Department of Energy that would have undermined its unilateral banning of natural gas exports.

Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET for Episode 150 of The Climate Realism show and we will answer your questions in the chat.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
4:25 FBI on Climate Grift Case
10:20 Judge Stops EPA
18:45 German Wind Farm Scrapped
25:48 LNG Report Buried
37:00 Greenpeace Extinction Event
54:09 Q&A

The new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, dropped the Mother of All Bombs this week on the radical environmental agenda that has dominated Washington, DC since the start of the Obama administration. If it holds, the impact will be devastating.

The Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett and Jim Lakely are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS Matthew M. Wielicki, Ph.D.—an earth science professor-in-exile from “official” academia at the University of Alabama—and Steve Milloy, who served in Trump’s EPA Transition Team in his first presidency.

We’ll also dive into the Crazy Climate News of the Week and take your questions. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET to participate in the chat, where we’ll share your comments and answer your questions.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
4:00 Trees Die for COP30
8:37 CNN Stupidity
16:10 More Bad News for Mann
27:52 Climate Grift Update
39:22 Obama EPA Agenda, R.I.P.
51:02 Q&A

We've covered the climate grift in several recent episodes, but now it's time for a deeper dive. This week, The Heartland Institute published a new paper titled The High Cost of Climate Scams: Assessing the Green Giveaways in the Inflation Reduction Act. This law was never meant to fight inflation—it was designed to funnel hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of politically connected “green” businesses and pop-up nonprofits. Did we say hundreds of billions? The real price tag is closer to $2 TRILLION.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will dig deeper into the greatest scam in history. We will also cover the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including Bill Nye lying about how wildfires in South Carolina “didn’t use to be a thing,” Michael Mann suffering another humiliating loss in court, and why God hates wind turbines.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
3:00 Bill Nye's Pants on Fire
15:11 Mann vs. Steyn Update
24:52 God Hates Wind Turbines
39:09 High Cost of Climate Scams
53:52 Q&A

Big news this week as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has reportedly told the White House it should officially abandon the ruling that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. The so-called “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and methane emissions forms the backbone of government regulations to “fight climate change” by heavily regulating everything from power plants to automobiles to stoves. Will President Trump repeal the endangerment finding? Can he do it unilaterally? We will discuss.

Also, NOAA has “homogenized” the temperature data again. What does that mean? And does it correct the historical record, or distort it to support the alarmist global warming narrative?

In “climate grift” news, Climate Crusader Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has been caught backing legislation that funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to his wife’s nonprofit organization. How convenient, and corrupt.

And good news, everyone! The absurd plot of the climate disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow is not actually going to happen, despite alarmist “scientists” claiming it could be imminent.

Join The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely — along with special guest David Legates, former deputy assistant secretary at NOAA — to cover these stories, and more on The Climate Realism Show. Jump in the chat during the livestream ​on YouTube and Rumble to get your climate questions answered, too.

Elon Musk's DOGE crew continues to shine a light on how our federal government operates, and it is exposing more climate grift than even the most cynical among us could have imagined. The latest involves the EPA giving failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams $2 billion to expand "clean energy by prioritizing housing, equity, and resilience." Her organization, Power Forward Communities, says it will install heat pumps, solar panels, EV chargers, and other "green" technology. Does Abrams have any expertise in this field? No. In fact, her organization incorporated itself with $100 in the bank just months before receiving $2 billion of our tax money. The Washington Free Beacon also reported this week that the man Biden put in charge of the EPA's "Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund" funneled $5 billion to his former employer, something called the Coalition for Green Capital.

The climate grifters are being exposed, and the EPA is trying to claw these billions of dollars back. But how deep does the corruption go? We're bringing in Steve Milloy of the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute, an EPA transition team member in Trump's first term, to get a handle on it. The Heartland Institute's Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including a look at NOAA data showing the second-biggest month-to-month temperature drop since 2009.

Carbon dioxide is routinely singled out as the climate villain, but it makes up only a tiny fraction of Earth’s atmosphere. Even so, we often hear that rising CO₂ levels will accelerate global warming. In this video, we take a closer look at the concept of CO₂ saturation—how carbon dioxide molecules can only absorb so much heat before additional CO₂ makes little to no difference.

New findings from atmospheric scientists at prestigious institutions like MIT and Princeton suggest that we may have already hit the saturation point. So does boosting CO₂ beyond current levels truly spell doom for the planet, or is its warming power already maxed out? Watch now to decide for yourself.

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If you think you know how much of your money is stolen in the climate scam, and who it enriches, you barely know the half of it. The Heartland Institute with Steve Milloy and Matthew Wielicki explain.

Tune in LIVE every Friday at 1 p.m. for The Climate Realism Show, which you need to watch to get actual science to counter the propaganda about the climate from the legacy media.

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Is eating beef really driving climate change? The media and activists insist that reducing beef consumption—or even switching to insect-based diets—is necessary to combat global warming. But is this claim based on solid science? In this video, Linnea Lueken from The Heartland Institute fact-checks the idea that cattle ranching is a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions.

According to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, beef production contributes only 2% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and all livestock combined account for less than 4%. In contrast, transportation, electricity production, and industry make up the vast majority. Plus, methane—the primary emission from cattle—has a short atmospheric lifespan, making its impact far less significant than often claimed. With agricultural crop production emitting more greenhouse gases than livestock, should we really be worried about hamburgers causing climate catastrophe? Linnea has the facts!

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Are climate models accurately predicting global temperatures, or are they exaggerating the warming trend? In this quick fact check, Linnea Lueken from The Heartland Institute breaks down the significant gap between climate model projections and real-world temperature data. While activists and the mainstream media cite models like CMIP6 to claim dangerous warming, measured temperatures from satellites, weather balloons, and surface stations show a much more modest increase. Peer-reviewed research highlights a persistent “hot model problem,” raising critical questions about the reliability of these models in shaping climate policy.

If climate models consistently overestimate warming, should we be basing major policy decisions on them? Linnea explores the fundamental flaws in climate modeling, including assumptions about human-induced warming and climate sensitivity. Watch now to learn why skepticism about these projections is essential—and where you can find reliable data to counter climate alarmism.

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