Watch live from the Ivar Giaever Ballroom at the 16th International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute. All times EDT.

The day opens with remarks from Heartland President James Taylor, followed by a keynote from Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the U.S. EPA. Mid-morning brings the first panel, where Judith Curry, Ross McKitrick, and Benjamin Zycher discuss the Department of Energy's recent climate report. Over lunch, Will Happer of Princeton University and the CO2 Coalition takes the stage, followed by West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey and the presentation of the Frederick Seitz Memorial Award to Peter Ridd.

The afternoon features Willie Soon, Ronan Connolly, and Arthur Viterito examining climate drivers beyond CO₂, and a panel on climate science, law, and the courts with James Taylor, Joe Morris, Forrest Frantz, and Danielle Carl. The evening closes with dinner keynotes from Craig Rucker and Anthony Watts, a Climate Pioneer Award presentation, and closing remarks from James Taylor.

Watch live from the Ivar Giaever Ballroom at the 16th International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute. All times EDT.

The day opens with remarks from Heartland President James Taylor, followed by a keynote from Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the U.S. EPA. Mid-morning brings the first panel, where Judith Curry, Ross McKitrick, and Benjamin Zycher discuss the Department of Energy's recent climate report. Over lunch, Will Happer of Princeton University and the CO2 Coalition takes the stage, followed by West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey and the presentation of the Frederick Seitz Memorial Award to Peter Ridd.

The afternoon features Willie Soon, Ronan Connolly, and Arthur Viterito examining climate drivers beyond CO₂, and a panel on climate science, law, and the courts with James Taylor, Joe Morris, Forrest Frantz, and Danielle Carl. The evening closes with dinner keynotes from Craig Rucker and Anthony Watts, a Climate Pioneer Award presentation, and closing remarks from James Taylor.

Watch live from the Ivar Giaever Ballroom at the 16th International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute. All times EDT.

The day opens with remarks from Heartland President James Taylor, followed by a keynote from Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the U.S. EPA. Mid-morning brings the first panel, where Judith Curry, Ross McKitrick, and Benjamin Zycher discuss the Department of Energy's recent climate report. Over lunch, Will Happer of Princeton University and the CO2 Coalition takes the stage, followed by West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey and the presentation of the Frederick Seitz Memorial Award to Peter Ridd.

The afternoon features Willie Soon, Ronan Connolly, and Arthur Viterito examining climate drivers beyond CO₂, and a panel on climate science, law, and the courts with James Taylor, Joe Morris, Forrest Frantz, and Danielle Carl. The evening closes with dinner keynotes from Craig Rucker and Anthony Watts, a Climate Pioneer Award presentation, and closing remarks from James Taylor.

Watch live from the Bill Gray Room at the 16th International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute. All times EDT.

Track B kicks off mid-morning with Steve Milloy, Marc Morano, and Douglas Pollock examining the track record of failed climate predictions.

The afternoon opens with Anthony Watts, Jonathan Cohler, and David Legates taking a hard look at problems in the temperature and climate records, before Jason Issac, Steve Milloy, Willis Eschenbach, and Angela Wheeler close out the day with a forward-looking panel on the most important battles ahead. For the evening keynotes, switch over to the Ivar Giaever Ballroom stream.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on April 8, 2026 was the opening keynote speaker at the 16th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC. He said climate "realism" is "rising, which is what the American people voted for in 2024.

Zeldin touted his record as EPA Administrator, stopping the "grift" of public money by environmental NGOs, the repealing of the Endangerment Finding for carbon dioxide, and debunked the idea that it was "controversial" for him to speak at this conference and implement the policies he has enacted in the just 14 months (so far) of the second Trump administration.

Watch the live-streams and archives of the 16th International Conference on Climate Change — hosted by The Heartland Institute with co-hosts CFACT, the CO2 Coalition, and Watts Up With That; cosponsored by Climate Intel (CLINTEL) — at https://climateconference.heartland.org/

We all hear that nuclear energy is too expensive and too risky, but it’s simply not true!

So, what’s really driving the cost, and who’s responsible?

In this video, we break down the policies, the barriers, and what it all means for the future of energy. While the demand for clean, reliable power continues to grow, excessive regulation and political roadblocks are making it harder than ever to build and expand nuclear energy in the United States.
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It's no secret nuclear energy isn't the cheapest power source. But a lot of what people think makes it expensive has nothing to do with the technology.

The average nuclear plant pays around $60 million a year in regulatory costs, fees, and liabilities. Some plants pay more in government fees than they earn in profit. The regulatory burden alone is more than operations and maintenance costs combined.

According to the Institute for Energy Research, nuclear is actually less expensive than biomass, combustion turbines, advanced coal, offshore wind, solar PV, and solar thermal. It's more costly than natural gas combined cycle, but it runs reliably for up to 80 years.

So why aren't we building more?

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Sources:
- https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/nuclear/regulations-hurt-economics-nuclear-power/
- https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/data-and-statistics.php
- https://heartland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Apr-25-ARC-Scorecard.pdf

We all know that the public education system in America is rotten, but it is actually even worse than you may realize. There are only so many hours in a school day, and while kids are falling behind in reading, writing, and arithmetic, teachers unions are making sure kids learn about how to be good left-wing activists. Many of these same groups support the "No Kings" protest movement, and we will discuss why that is.

At the White House, Trump has signed an executive order about mail-in voting, in an attempt to limit fraud, but will it stick?

And on UNHINGED: we will look at a very Canadian Communist Convention.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Chris Talgo, S.T. Karnick, and Jim Lakely will talk about all of this and more on Episode #532 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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Watch live from the Bill Gray Room at the 16th International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute. All times EDT.

Thursday's Track B opens with Geoffrey Pohanka, Robert Vogt, and Rob Bradley sharing firsthand experience of how climate policy is reshaping the real economy.

The afternoon features James Taylor, Steve Milloy, and Cameron Sholty on the growing alliance between big tech and big utilities, followed by a closing panel on what an affordable, reliable, and clean energy model actually looks like, with Taylor, Louisiana State Representative Jacob Landry, Rob Bradley, and Lee Schalk. For the evening keynotes, switch over to the Ivar Giaever Ballroom stream.