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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.

Heartland Institute Responds to Passage of Auto Salvage Bills

March 14, 2012
Alan B. Smith

WASHINGTON, DC MARCH 14 – The Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate today welcomed news that legislation seeking to crack down on auto salvage fraud has passed the Uta

Study: Gleick Forged 'Fakegate' Memo

March 14, 2012
Joseph Bast

March 14, 2012 – A computer analysis of the “climate strategy memo” at the heart of the widely publicized global warming scandal called “Fakegate” concludes di

Heartland Science Director to Testify in State House Today on Renewable Energy

March 13, 2012

MARCH 13, 2012 – Jay Lehr, Ph.D., science director of the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, will testify this morning before the Kansas House Energy and Utilities Committee on renewable energy.

Heartland Institute Comments on Today’s Surface Transportation Amendment Votes

March 13, 2012
James M. Taylor, J.D.

CHICAGO (March 13, 2012) – The U.S. Senate today considered several amendments to the Surface Transportation bill (S. 1813) that dealt with changing incentive structures for energy resources.