Opinion
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Court Rules California’s Carbon-Dioxide Emissions Mandate Constitutional
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Federal Appeals Court dismissed a challenge brought by industry groups to the constitutionality of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), requiring fuel producers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the use of their products. -
Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Mountain Valley Pipeline Approval
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed all 16 challenges environmental activist groups had filed against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Senate’s Unanimous Rejection of Green New Deal
Opinion -Press Release -The Green New Deal is such horrendous policy proposal that not a single senator would go on record supporting it – not even the Green New Deal’s Democrat sponsors.” - James Taylor -
Arrogantly Fleecing Taxpayers
Opinion -Editorial -The teachers union is coming after more of your money. -
Nebraska Considers Massive Alcoholic-Beverage Tax Increases
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Nebraska Legislature is considering huge increases in excises tax on beer, wine, and spirits -
Chartercide in California
Opinion -Editorial -California’s teachers unions, a compliant legislature and an anti-choice governor do not bode well for the state’s charter schools. -
Classroom Forecast: Miseducated with a High Chance of Indoctrination
Opinion -Editorial -Instead of American history, students now learn about the evils of capitalism, airplanes and cow farts. -
Culture and Community
Opinion -Human culture involves a set of beliefs and expectations informally transmitted across generations. Some of these become traditions that help define a community. Here is one to celebrate, visiting and bringing food and treats to “shut-ins”. -
No Sanitized Pages in History, Please!
Opinion -Editorial -Imagine that in 1946 the general-secretary of the United Nations had submitted a resolution stating that Nazi crimes were so horrendous that the countries of the world needed to impose a blanket censorship on any reference to Hitler. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland President Talks Socialism on Fox News
Opinion -Editorial -Week of March 18, 2019 -
EPA’s Chemical Risk Assessments Rely on Flawed Science, Study Finds
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A new study concludes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a program assessing the toxicity of chemicals and any risk from exposure to them, often produces assessments based on flawed research. -
Americans Keep Moving to States with Lower Taxes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Tax Foundation analyzed patterns revealed in the National Movers Study. -
Bill Would Place 400,000 Acres of Colorado Off-Limits to Energy Production
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A bill under consideration in Congress would re-designate more than 400,000 acres of existing federal land in Colorado in ways that would limit access, mining, and oil and gas production. -
U.S. District Court Dismisses Kids’ Lawsuit Against Trump Climate Policies
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal district judge in Philadelphia dismissed a lawsuit by two Pennsylvania boys and an environmental group challenging the Trump administration’s rollback of some Obama-era climate regulations. -
NY Gov. Cuomo Bemoans High Taxes, Regulations That Are Forcing Wealthy to Leave
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Residents and businesses are leaving uncompetitive states like New York -
Most Washington State Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Disputed Gun Law
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Sheriffs of more than half the counties in Washington State reportedly will not enforce new gun law -
Expectations High for President’s Commission on Climate Security
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #318 -
Don’t Write Off the Internal Combustion Engine
Opinion -Editorial -Given the media coverage of Tesla, the Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf, one might think electric vehicles are a recent invention. In fact, they have been around for more than a century. -
Power Grid Serving 65 Million May be at Risk in East, Midwest
Opinion -Editorial -Electricity is the most important and convenient way to consume energy. Without it, we’d literally be living in the “Dark Ages.” However, we often forget that it takes energy to make energy. -
Ten Years of Congress Members’ Spending Votes Now Available to the Public
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Few members of Congress voted for net spending cuts over the past decade -
Progressives Say No to Meat, But the World Thinks Otherwise
Opinion -Editorial -Once again, meat consumption is under attack by progressive leaders. Politicians and the United Nations call on all of us to eat more plant-based foods and less meat and dairy products in the name of saving the planet. -
Cuomo’s Out of Control Craving for an Opioid Slush Fund
Opinion -Editorial -Sometimes a bad idea is a bad idea, no matter how you package it. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying again, after his $600 million opioid tax was slapped down in December by an Obama appointed federal judge. -
Mike Trout’s $426.5 Million Contract Probably Doesn’t Say What You Think About Society
Opinion -Editorial -Baseball phenom Mike Trout has inked a truly remarkable deal with the Los Angeles Angels: over the next twelve years, the Angels will pay him $426.5 million, or about $100 million more than the Phillies will pay Bryce Harper over the next thirteen years. -
Scientists Test Use of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Fight Malaria
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Medical entomologists have taken a significant step forward in combating the spread of malaria, the highly lethal mosquito-transmitted infectious disease.