Opinion
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Northam’s RGGI Move Would Add Injury to His Insult of Minorities
Opinion -Editorial -Northam is threatening to veto legislation recently passed by the General Assembly that would require a two-thirds’ majority vote from the Assembly and Senate to allow the Commonwealth to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). -
Russia Is Polluting Energy and Climate Politics in Western Democracies
Opinion -Editorial -Russia is once again actively trying to influence the policies of foreign governments, though this time, the target is Europe, not the United States. -
Rent Control Won’t Solve Oregon’s Housing Crisis
Opinion -Editorial -Oregon, taking a bold page out of the progressive playbook, recently became the first state to enact mandatory rent control. Unfortunately, the measure does nothing to address the underlying cause of the state’s housing crisis. -
How Vape Shops Make the World a Better Place
Opinion -Editorial -On March 4, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement the vaping community long assumed to be true: mom-and-pop vape shops are not the major culprits selling kids nicotine and tobacco products. -
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Heartland Weekly: Pre-Emptive War Will Solve Climate Change
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of April 8, 2019 -
Air Emissions, Toxic Releases Reduced, EPA Reports
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released reports showing air pollution and the amount of toxins released into the environment continue to decline nationwide. -
Utilities Promise Future Savings While Pushing Rate Hikes Today
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #320 -
Who Profits From Drug Price Decreases?
Opinion -Editorial -According to a new analysis released last month, Americans spent $3.65 trillion dollars on health care in 2018 – more than the entire gross domestic product of Canada. -
Many Teachers Love the Choice That Union Leaders Loathe
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Teachers send their children to private schools at twice the rate of parents generally -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Confirmation of David Bernhardt as U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Opinion -Press Release -The United States Senate on Thursday confirmed David Bernhardt as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior by a vote of 56-41. All Republicans voted for Bernhardt, as did three Democrats and one independent. -
Offshore Exploration Promises Jobs, Affordable Energy
Opinion -Editorial -Strong U.S. natural gas and oil production is revitalizing communities in state after state. -
U.S. Senate Public Lands Bill Would Declare 1.3 Million Acres As Wilderness
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S passed sweeping public lands conservation bill that would lock up more than one million acres in California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah as wilderness and impose additional permanent protections on federal lands in Montana and Washington. -
Trump’s Tweets Highlight Climate Contradictions
Opinion -environment-climate-news -As a polar vortex held much of the nation in its icy grip, with record-low temperatures recorded in many locations, President Donald Trump ridiculed global warming alarmism, highlighting contradictory climate claims. -
How Government E-Cigarette Restrictions Are Increasing Youth Tobacco Use
Opinion -Editorial -Across the nation, lawmakers seem stuck in a tragic game of whack-a-mole. The more they try to reduce youth vaping, the more they increase youth combustible cigarette smoking. -
Oregon Teens’ State Climate Lawsuit Dismissed
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A three-judge panel of the Oregon state Court of Appeals dismissed a climate change lawsuit asserting climate change was harming the state’s natural resources and the state government had an obligation to protect them as part of a public trust. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Trump’s Order to Prevent States from Blocking Pipelines
Opinion -Press Release -For years, far-left politicians have abused their authority and deprived America of much-needed energy infrastructure.” -
The ‘Green New Deal’ Is Dead. Long May It Stay Buried!
Opinion -Editorial -Sponsors of the “Green New Deal” (GND) resolution—and the socialists who publicly supported it—got a black eye last week as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called their bluff and brought the GND to the Senate floor for a vote. -
Coloradans’ Votes Don’t Matter to State’s Democratic Leaders
Opinion -Editorial -Empowered by their recent sweep of the state Legislature and governor’s mansion, Colorado Democrats are showing their true stripes. -
No, Beto, There is No Impending Climate Refugee Crisis
Opinion -Editorial -2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke warned on his first campaign stop in New Hampshire of a mass refugee crisis due to climate change. -
Ohio Governor Proposes Big Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The state’s tax on gasoline would rise 18 cents to pay for roads and bridges. -
Why Are Lawmakers More Concerned with Youth Vaping than Opioid Abuse?
Opinion -Editorial -Why are lawmakers working so feverishly to limit their access to tobacco harm reduction products like e-cigarettes? The hypocrisy is seemingly endless. -
Finally, There Will Be an Objective Federal Climate Commission
Opinion -Editorial -A PCCS is long overdue, and award-winning physicist William Happer, Ph.D., the administration’s senior director of the National Security Council office for emerging technologies, is the perfect person to run it. -
Charter Caps…and Gowns
Opinion -As charter schools continue to prove themselves, the threatened education monopolists try to kill them off. -
Proposed New Mexico Environmental Review Act Scuttled After Public Outcry
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A bill that would have required New Mexico state agencies to expand environmental assessments and public consultations concerning activities on state lands stalled in the state’s House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee.
