Free the Economy podcast: Climate policy endangerment with Marlo Lewis
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In this week’s episode we talk about tariff refunds, Affordable Care Act subsidies, Ryan Young’s Books of the Year for 2025, and how Santa landed on Trump’s naughty list. Our guest this week is Marlo Lewis, Jr., senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. We talk about greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding,” climate models, human health, and the future of environmental policy. You can watch the video version of our conversation here.
Recent analysis from Marlo on climate policy:
- The Endangerment Finding’s disqualifying systemic biases, part 1 (11/19/25)
- The Endangerment Finding’s disqualifying systemic biases, part 2 (11/21/25)
- Politico’s failed critique of DOE’s climate science report (11/2/25)
See also the regulatory comment letter by Marlo and Daren Bakst on the Environmental Protection Agency’s reconsideration of 2009 endangerment finding and greenhouse gas vehicle standards (9/22/25).
Recent episodes:
- Free the Economy Episode 153: Consumer Finance and Privacy with James Erwin
- Free the Economy Episode 152: The Business of America with Neil Bradley
- Free the Economy Episode 151: Balancing the Budget with Kurt Couchman
- Free the Economy Episode 150: Sesquicentennial Celebration
- Free the Economy Episode 149: Charting Tariff Madness with Joey Politano
- Free the Economy Episode 148: Truth, Lies, and Economics with Jeremy Horpendahl
- Free the Economy Episode 147: Our Nuclear Tomorrow with Craig Piercy
- Free the Economy Episode 146: Obamacare Problems with Jeremy Nighohossian
- Free the Economy Episode 145: Energy Diversity and Abundance with Stephen Perkins
- Free the Economy Episode 144: Celebrating Human Achievement with Ed Hudgins
Join us next week when our guest will be with Derek Scissors, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Chief Economist at China Beige Book. We’ll talk about U.S.-China relations and what the future holds for tariffs, trade flows, and great power competition. Get ready for that conversation with Derek’s recent op-ed (with Zack Cooper) in the Washington Post, “Trump vs. China is taking a turn.”