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Opposition Tactics, Protests, Stop Oregon Climate Bill … for Now
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #328 -
Oregon Senate Republicans Fought The Law—And The Public, Not The Law, Won
Opinion -Editorial -In a small victory (for sanity) in the ongoing climate wars, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem) admitted defeat in his and Gov. Kate Brown’s attempt to force unwilling Republicans to vote on a controversial cap-and-trade bill. -
House Bill to Reduce Wildfires Held Up by Committee Chair
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Congress’ only professional forester, has introduced the 2019 Resilient Federal Forests Ac, to improve forest management and reduce the economic and environmental damage caused by wildfires. -
New Rule Requires Drug Companies to State Prices in Ads
Opinion -health-care-news, News -America’s $450 billion-a-year drug industry is about to get a new wrinkle as a rule finalized in May by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requires all pharmaceutical companies to include the list prices of their drugs and biological p -
Study: Fracking Isn’t Causing Health Problems for PA School Children
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A new study of natural gas production near two schools in Washington County, Pennsylvania finds no evidence emissions pose a health risk to the kids attending the schools. -
Legislative Pulse Lawmaker Critiques California’s $98 Million per Year Health Care for Illegal Immigrant Adults
Opinion -News -Editor’s Note: California lawmakers reached a budget deal on June 9 that will extend full-scope Medicaid benefits to low-income adults age 19 to 26 regardless of U.S. citizenship or legal immigrant status. -
Reaction to Measles Outbreak Raises Informed-Consent Issues
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Government imposed fines, jail time and other measures to increase measles vaccination rates is calling into question the wisdom and ethics behind such measures. -
Illinois Considers Creating Board to Reject Insurance Price Increases
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Illinois House passed a bill that would authorize the state’s Department of Insurance to reject health insurance price increases it deems unreasonable. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Invites Jay Inslee to Debate a Climate Scientist in DC on July 25
Opinion -Press Release -In Democratic Debate Wednesday Night, Climate Champion Jay Inslee Said Man-Caused Global Catastrophe Is a 'Moral Certainty' - Scientists at July 25 Climate Conference Ready to Challenge Inslee's Assertion with Latest Climate Data -
Organization Spreads Pro-Freedom Ideas in Medical Schools
Opinion -health-care-news, News -In a time when 51 percent of millennials say they have a positive view of socialism, there is an organization spreading the word of free markets and capitalism in one of the sectors most vulnerable to government command and control: health care. -
CMS Offers Flat-Fee Payment Model for Medicare Providers
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration is trying to help lower Medicare costs by offering primary care doctors a flat fee instead of the fee-for-service model currently in place. -
Interior Department Acts to Expedite Some Federal Facility Title Transfers
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In an effort to boost water development and the maintenance of water projects on federal lands, the U.S. Interior Department has taken steps to make it easier to transfer water projects on federal land to users of the water. -
Expanding HSAs Could Help Fix America’s Broken Health Insurance Model
Opinion -Editorial -A recent survey revealed only one in five people currently enrolled in an employer-sponsored health plan have a health savings account (HSA). More unsettling, few use them to save money for future health expenses. -
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Issues New Clean Air Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has formally replaced the prior administration’s Clean Power Plan, to reduce power plant greenhouse gas emissions, with the Affordable Clean Energy rule. -
WebMD Misleads on Agriculture and Climate Change
Opinion -Editorial -Some readers of a recent article published by WebMD titled “Will Climate Change Cause Food Sources to Dwindle?” might be fooled into thinking the author intends to carefully weigh the evidence about this important topic. -
Alarmists Claim Maple Syrup Climate Crisis, Yet Production Sets New Records
Opinion -Editorial -The 2019 maple syrup harvest brought another opportunity for global-warming alarmists to gin up a fictitious climate scare. -
Net Zero Emissions Will Never Be “Achieved;” Reduced Global CO2 Emissions Will Be Hard Enough
Opinion -Editorial -The basic position of the climate “environmentalists” (CEs) on energy has long been that CO2 emissions should be drastically reduced (which, they claim, would reduce global temperatures). -
LaCroix Cartels Are Unlikely, But Be Mindful of How Regulations Affect Incentives
Opinion -Editorial -Consumer Reports recently discovered that LaCroix's parent company, National Beverage Corps, doesn't have the permits required to sell LaCroix in Massachusetts. -
No Fight to the Finnish
Opinion -Editorial -Finnish schools are unionized. American schools are unionized. The similarities end there. -
Sen. Cruz Calls for Expansion of Education Savings Plans
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The SECURE Act retirement bill passed unanimously by the House Ways & Means Committee included the provision, but the language was stripped out of the bill before passage by the House. -
Study: Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance Provides Good Option
Opinion -News -Contrary to what some politicians say, short-term limited duration health insurance (STLDI) is not “junk insurance” but an attractive option for a large number of people and won’t undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, a new report says. -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Considers Repealing Payday Loan Rule
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Under the rule’s Mandatory Underwriting Provisions, payday lenders would have to confirm their borrowers’ ability to repay short-term loans. -
Many thanks to all the GOP State Senators for standing up for Oregon taxpayers
Opinion -Editorial -HB2020 has all sorts of very negative consequences for this state and absolutely no climate benefits at all. Oregon is simply too small to make any difference. -
Louisiana Senate Approves Obamacare Replacement Plan
Opinion -health-care-news, News -An Obamacare replacement plan passed unanimously in the Louisiana Senate and is expected to clear the House and head to the governor’s desk.