Opinion
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Trump Administration Offers Clean Water Act Reforms
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has offered a series of regulatory reforms to the 1972 Clean Water Act, to protect states’ legitimate authority over land and water within their borders and to protect property rights. -
U.S. Energy Department Rejects Obama-Era Light Bulb Proposal
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the current standards for general service incandescent light bulbs are sufficient and do not need to be amended. -
Death, Taxes and Prosperity
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -We like taxing businesses because they appear rich. Yet the question of who truly pays business taxes is very complicated. -
Do ‘Green’ Buses Pass the Performance Test?
Opinion -Editorial -Do ‘green’ buses pass the performance test? -
HHS Urged to Update HIPAA to Protect Patient Medical Records
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The data sharing deal between Google and Ascension Health raises patient privacy concerns. -
High Schoolers’ Dream Careers Don’t Match Job Market Reality
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -OECD Report finds teenagers’ choices for an “ideal career” have narrowed over the past two decades and don’t reflect the new economy. -
Partners in Liberty: Washington Policy Center
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Washington Policy Center is a free-market, public policy think tank based in Seattle. The organization’s experts focus on several key areas of policy, including agriculture, education, environment, government reform, health care, and transportation. -
Physician Group Sues Adam Schiff for Attempting to Censure Vaccine Debate
Opinion -News -The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and a New York state resident are suing U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) for trying to suppress what he deems “inaccurate” vaccine information on the internet. -
Commentary: Happiness, Thy Name Is National School Choice Week
Opinion -school-reform-news -"The growth of this event serves as an indicator of the rising American interest in families having as free a choice among schools as they have when they pick out a pair of shoes at the mall. " -
Profile: Empire Center – Working Toward A Better New York
Opinion -budget-tax-news -New York has earned its reputation as a high-tax state, but a major policy win by the Empire Center is helping change that. -
Feds Take Action Against Doctors Who Fail to Provide Patient Records
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has started enforcing a provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that has been in effect since 1996. -
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Heartland Weekly: Alarmists Dial Back Dire Scenarios
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of February 10, 2020 -
Congressional Resolution on Physician Assisted Suicide Gets Bipartisan Support
Opinion -News -A congressional resolution to block the legalization of physician assisted suicide is receiving bipartisan support as states continue to legalize “death with dignity.” -
Scientists Committed False Alarming Climate Advertising
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #350 -
Feds Probe Red-Light Camera Corruption in Illinois, Legislators Back Ban
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Across the United States, 341 communities use red-light cameras, including 68 municipalities in Illinois, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. -
PRESS RELEASE: German YouTube Personality Naomi Seibt Joins The Heartland Institute
Opinion -Press Release -The 19-year-old influencer will concentrate on communicating climate realism to her generation in Europe and the United States. -
Politicized Veganism Threatens Human Health and Liberty
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Some politicians have joined anti-meat and climate change activists in a massive effort to restructure the American diet by mandating a worldwide plant-based diet. -
Democratic Presidential Contenders Push for Climate ‘Stress Test’ Requirement on Banks
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Several Democratic presidential candidates want the federal government to require periodic “stress tests” on large banks to ensure they can handle potential economic blows from climate change. -
Mandatory Union Bargaining Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Opinion -school-reform-news, budget-tax-news -A teacher at at the University of Maine is contesting representation by the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine (AFUM). -
Bird Conservation Groups Sue over Lake Erie Industrial Wind Facility
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Two bird conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit claiming federal agencies did not follow federal law during the approval process for the Icebreaker Wind industrial facility on Lake Erie. -
Investors Clamoring to Advance Kidney Care, Says HHS Deputy Secretary
Opinion -health-care-news, News -President Donald Trump’s kidney care initiative has energized investors and innovators, Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan told The Heartland Daily Podcast, -
New York Overrides Municipal Ban on Industrial Wind Facility, Impacts Eagle Population
Opinion -environment-climate-news -State Regulators in New York approved a 124-megawatt Bluestone industrial wind facility, despite strong objections from the Delaware Otsego Audubon Society and a last-minute zoning ordinance enacted by the Town of Sanford to block the project. -
Prince of Hypocrisy: Charles Racks Up Private Flight Miles, CO2 Emissions
Opinion -Editorial -According to climate activists, air travel—and especially private air travel—is one of the most wasteful and unnecessary sources of carbon dioxide emissions and a major cause of climate change. -
Doomed Climate Lawsuits Waste Precious Time and Money
Opinion -Editorial -It’s time for federal and state courts to say enough is enough and block all such lawsuits. It’s the job of elected branches, not the judiciary, to determine United States climate and energy policy.
