Powering America

About Powering America

The Powering America Podcast explores the policies, projects, technologies, and investments driving America's energy future and infrastructure development. We speak with industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, business executives, and innovators about the challenges and opportunities shaping the nation's energy systems, electric grid, transportation networks, manufacturing base, and critical infrastructure. From electricity generation, natural gas, nuclear energy, and renewable power to data centers, transmission, permitting reform, supply chains, workforce development, and infrastructure investment, each episode delivers thoughtful conversations with the people helping build and power modern America. Whether you're a policymaker, business leader, investor, journalist, or engaged citizen, The Powering America Podcast offers insights into the ideas and innovations shaping America's energy security, economic growth, and infrastructure future. New episodes released regularly.

Publisher

Powering America

Category

business · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2026

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Diana Moss: How Corporate Monopolies Threaten Free-Market Competition

   Are corporate monopolies undermining America's free-market economy? On this episode of The Powering America Podcast, host Bryan Hyde speaks with Diana Moss, vice president and director of competition policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. Moss says dominant companies can squeeze out smaller competitors, raise prices and limit consumer choice. She also warns about "regulatory capture," a phenomenon in which powerful corporations seek government regulations that help preserve their market dominance.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Transportation Analyst Says UP-NS Merger Would Harm Shippers and Communities

   Arnav Rao, a transportation policy analyst with the Open Markets Institute, warned on the Powering America Podcast that the proposed UP-NS merger would consolidate an already-concentrated industry and amplify monopoly pricing power rather than improve efficiency. Rao argued that railroads have used market dominance to raise prices faster than inflation, driving shippers to trucks.

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   SPECIAL BRIEFING: Opposition grows to Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern rail merger

   A proposed $85 billion merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, aiming to create the first coast-to-coast freight railroad in America, is facing widespread opposition from a diverse group of stakeholders. While the railroads assert the merger would improve service, reduce delays, and shift freight from highways to rail, opponents including state attorneys general, agricultural organizations, manufacturers, freight customers, competing railroads, and labor unions contend it could stifle competition, escalate shipping costs, threaten jobs, and diminish transportation choices. The Federal Surface Transportation Board must approve the transaction, requiring the companies to demonstrate it serves the public interest and enhances competition, a standard that opponents argue the proposed merger fails to meet, urging regulators to apply the highest scrutiny to the deal.

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