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U.N. Finds No Link Between Extreme Weather Event Damages and Global Warming

March 30, 2012
James M. Taylor, J.D.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its Special Report on Extremes, which fails to find increasing property damage caused by global warming.

Heartland Institute Praises FDA’s BPA Ruling

March 30, 2012

In a long-awaited response to a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Food and Drug Administration today announced it will not ban the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food contac

Heartland Institute Responds to End of Obamacare Arguments at Supreme Court

March 28, 2012
Benjamin Domenech

Three days of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, ended Wednesday.

Heartland Institute Experts Praise FDA Report on Smokeless Tobacco Products

March 28, 2012

Heartland Institute experts today praised a new report from the Food and Drug Administration that says dissolvable tobacco products are less harmful than smoking cigarettes.

Fakegate: Heartland Replies to Greenpeace

March 27, 2012
Joseph Bast

CHICAGO, IL March 26, 2012: Recently, a Greenpeace activist named Cindy Baxter suddenly recalled that “someone calling himself ‘John’ and saying he was with a US environmental NGO” recorded a brief

Heartland Institute Experts React to First Day of Obamacare Hearings at Supreme Court

March 26, 2012
Maureen Martin
Benjamin Domenech
Peter Ferrara
Avik Roy
Dr. John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D.

The United States Supreme Court today began three days of hearings on a challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare.

Heartland Institute Responds to House Budget Plan for Federal Crop Insurance

March 22, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC (MARCH 22, 2012) – The Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate today responded to the plan unveiled by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), w

Press Conference to Lay Out Roadmap for Fixing Texas State Budget

March 19, 2012
Julie Drenner

AUSTIN, Texas (March 19, 2012) - A bold new plan to tackle Texas’s growing budget crisis will be unveiled March 20 at a press conference hosted by Texans for a Conservative Budget Coalition.