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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Applaud EPA’s Repeal of Strict Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rule for Power Plants
Opinion -Press Release -‘This represents a massive victory for energy and climate realists who have fought this unscientific overreach for decades.’ -
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Life, Liberty, Property #159: Trump’s ‘Dividend’ Plan Could Work, With One Major Addition
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The complaints have substance: the plan is unworkable in the form in which Trump presented it. It would increase the already terrifying national debt and probably spark much-higher inflation ... -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Why Nuclear — Not Wind and Solar — Is What You Want During Weather Extremes
Opinion -Press Release -As a report blames climate change for brief European nuclear slowdowns, Heartland senior fellow Anthony Watts says weather-dependent wind and solar are the actual reliability problem SCHAUMBURG, IL (September 14, 2026) — The Heartland Institute’s senior fellow for environment and climate Anthony Watts is available for interviews about his new commentary published in The Washington […] -
Big Dairy Cabal’s ‘Dairy Net Zero’ Efforts Must Be Stopped
Opinion -Editorial -Over the past five years, an international cabal of dairy industry giants have tried to impose climate rules that would harm small producers. -
Climate Change Weekly # 590—Ag Cabal’s Dairy Net Zero Restrictions Harm Producers, Report Shows
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland’s New 50-State Medicaid Report Card Ranks Kansas First, California Last
Opinion -Press Release -New Heartland Institute study evaluates every state across 16 measures of Medicaid policy, spending, program integrity, and provider-market conditions -
Will the ‘Live Free or Die’ State Submit to Socialism?
Opinion -In 1945, “as World War II approached a successful end,” the New Hampshire Legislature adopted “Live Free or Die” as the state’s “official motto and emblem.” -
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Life, Liberty, Property #158: Rising Pushback Against the Surveillance State
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Public opposition to data centers has increased by 12 percentage points in just the past four months, with 61 percent now saying they oppose building new data centers ... -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Heartland Institute’s S.T. Karnick on How a Century of Zoning Laws Caused the Housing Crisis — and Now Threatens Data Centers
Opinion -Press Release -Heartland expert says it’s time to end the regulations that priced out first-time homebuyers and are now used to block data center construction -
The 6,000 Reasons the World Can’t Simply Quit Oil
Opinion -Social media, smartphones, computers, and the many electronic devices that did not exist a century ago are being called “addictive.” -
PRESS RELEASE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Speech in Chicago Pushed for Historic Property Tax Rollback
Opinion -Press Release -“We have to win, and they have to lose. And that’s what we’ve done,” DeSantis said as featured speaker at Heartland Institute Benefit Dinner -
FULL PROGRAM: Gov. Ron DeSantis, Kevin Sorbo, and Tom Woods at The Heartland Institute Benefit Dinner 2026
Opinion -WATCH: The Heartland Institute's 42nd Anniversary Benefit Dinner brought together some of the biggest names in the free-market and liberty movement. -
The DSA’s Energy Policy Will Annihilate America’s Workers
Opinion -The DSA’s energy policy can be summarized in three words: Green New Deal. -
States Can Help Nip Socialism in the Bud
Opinion -Although efforts have been made to nationalize education policy in recent years, states still retain ample purview over education policy, particularly curriculum content. -
De-grading America’s Children
Opinion -When teachers assess students, they must accurately report what students learn. Yet too often, this doesn’t happen. Grading for Equity, written by Joe Feldman, a former teacher, administrator, and “educational grading consultant,” was published in 2018 and has since gained traction nationwide. RealClearInvestigations reports that Boston Public Schools approved a shift to equity grading in 2023. In Oregon, Portland […] -
California Is Handing Control of its Fuel Supply to Foreign Refineries
Opinion -Because California’s transportation fuel market is isolated from the rest of the country with no major transportation fuel pipelines from out of state over the majestic Sierra Mountain range, supply imbalances quickly translate into high retail prices at the pump. There is a pipeline that goes from the San Francisco Bay area in Concord to […] -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts on Why the Media Rushed to Blame Climate Change for Nepal’s Deadly Glacier Collapse
Opinion -Press Release -Scientists say geology and infrastructure explain the disaster’s toll — but major outlets blamed climate change before the evidence is in -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute’s Chris Talgo on Why Democrats Will Ditch the Green New Deal
Opinion -Press Release -It’s near the top of the DSA agenda, but is so toxic even they will abandon it … or at least stop talking about it -
Climate Change Weekly # 589—National Academy Pulls Climate Chapter—for Now, at Least
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
The Free-market Case for AI Data Centers
Opinion -Heartland President James Taylor makes compelling points for AI data centers on the Hugh Hewitt Show. -
PRESS RELEASE: America Should Press European Union Over Extraterritorial Sustainability Regulations
Opinion -Press Release -Washington warns European Union that further action could follow if Brussels does not address burdens imposed on American businesses. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #157: Data Center Hysteria and the Decay of America’s Political System
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Public opposition to data centers has increased by 12 percentage points in just the past four months, with 61 percent now saying they oppose building new data centers ... -
PRESS RELEASE: European Union Begins Enforcing Sweeping Artificial Intelligence Act
Opinion -Press Release -New enforcement powers give European regulators greater authority over American AI companies and technologies -
Running on Medicare for All in Florida Is a Fool’s Errand
Opinion -Angie Nixon’s unexpected defeat of establishment Democrat Alexander Vinman yet again shows that moderate Democrats underestimate the raw political power of the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) “free” stuff agenda.
