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California’s New Privacy Law is No Model for the Nation

Published January 4, 2019

By Bartlett Cleland

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The fundamental problem of defining privacy is the same as defining obscenity. What is an outrage to one person is no big deal to another.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Let’s Do Follow the Climate Money!

Published January 4, 2019

By Paul Driessen

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Climate Crisis Inc. gets billions to promote imaginary manmade cataclysm – but attacks realists.
- Environment & Energy
With Obama-Era Handcuffs Removed, U.S. Finally Becomes Net Oil Exporter

Published January 3, 2019

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., James Taylor

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For the first time since at least the 1940s, the United States is exporting more oil and petroleum than it imports, spurring economic growth.
- Environment & Energy
EPA Restores Common Sense to Overaggressive Water Regulations

Published January 3, 2019

By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., James Taylor

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced it is rolling back some of the excessive, and possibly illegal, water regulations imposed by the Obama administration.
- Government & Politics
- Government & Liberty
Chinese-Style Social Credits System a Harbinger of US’s Future?

Published January 3, 2019

By Luke Karnick

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Could something like China's social credit system happen in America?
- Environment & Energy
Arizona Voters Reject California Billionaire’s Renewable Energy Mandate Increase

Published January 3, 2019

By Bonner R. Cohen

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Arizona voters rejected a ballot initiative which would have required utilities to use renewable sources to produce at least 50 percent of the electricity in the state by 2030, “irrespective of the cost to customers.”
Arkansas Lawmakers Consider Housecleaning for State Rulebook

Published January 2, 2019

By Owen Macaulay

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Rollback of more than 800 outdated or unnecessary regulations
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Correction Issued for Alarming Ocean Temperature Paper

Published January 2, 2019

By H. Sterling Burnett

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A significant error led researchers to issue a correction to estimates of global ocean warming published in the journal Nature.
- Health Care
Survey: Millennials Least Likely to Have Primary Care Doctors

Published January 2, 2019

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Young Americans have the lowest rate of use of primary care doctors, a new survey reports.
- Health Care
Sen. Grassley to Change Chairmanships, Focus on Health Care

Published January 2, 2019

By Ashley Bateman

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Pending confirmation by the 116th Congress, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) says he will fill the seat of retiring Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and address health care affordability and high drug prices in his new role.
Alaska’s Natural Gas Megaproject Under Review

Published December 31, 2018

By Kenneth Artz

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A $44 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project planned by the state of Alaska to sell natural gas to Asian markets could be upended by November’s election of Mike Dunleavy as the state’s new governor.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Time to Clear Out the Obama Holdovers and the Climate Propaganda They Spread

Published December 28, 2018

By H. Sterling Burnett

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Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
Climate Change Weekly #309
- Environment & Energy
Hell Freezes Over at Global Climate Crisis Confab

Published December 27, 2018

By Larry Bell

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The planet can finally draw a fresh breath of relief now that the fossil-fueled contrails waft away from hundreds of jumbo jets that transported some 30,000 climate alarm pontiffs and green energy panhandlers to and from their convention.
- Environment & Energy
COP 24: Africans Promote Oil and Coal at Katowice Climate Summit

Published December 27, 2018

By David Wojick

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Hecklers protested the U.S. event on fossil fuels but nobody bothered the Africans when they promoted the role of oil and gas in national development.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Heartland Science Panel Brings Realism to UN Climate Conference

Published December 27, 2018

By Jim Lakely

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The Heartland Institute hosted an event in Katowice, Poland discussing the latest research on climate science and the high costs of government efforts to fight purported anthropogenic climate change.
- Health Care
Land O’Lakes AHP Plan Meets State Requirements, Nebraska Confirms

Published December 27, 2018

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A plan by Minnesota-based Land O’Lakes, Inc. to begin selling AHPs across state lines in Nebraska meets the state insurance standards required to begin offering the plans, Nebraska Department of Insurance Director Bruce Ramge says.
- Health Care
Idaho Group Sues to Block State’s Medicaid Expansion

Published December 27, 2018

By Ashley Bateman

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An Idaho think tank has filed a lawsuit asking the state’s Supreme Court to block a scheduled expansion of Medicaid.
- Health Care
Alaska Considers CON Law Repeal

Published December 27, 2018

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Alaska lawmakers are expected to reintroduce a measure to repeal the state’s certificate of need (CON) laws, which limit the services health care providers can offer.
- Health Care
Twenty-State Obamacare Lawsuit Moves Forward

Published December 27, 2018

By Leo Pusateri

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Texas was joined by 19 other states in a so-far successful federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
- Environment & Energy
Alaska Nets $28 Million from Oil and Gas Lease Sale

Published December 26, 2018

By Kenneth Artz

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Alaska earned more than $28 million from oil and gas lease sales on state property in the North Slope and the Beaufort Sea in 2018.
- Environment & Energy
Jobs, Revenues on Federal Lands Are Rising, Interior Department Reports

Published December 24, 2018

By Bonner R. Cohen

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Energy production on federal lands increased substantially during the first year of the Trump administration.
- Environment & Energy
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on EPA’s New Rule for Coal Plants

Published December 21, 2018

By James Taylor, Jay Lehr (1938 – 2023), H. Sterling Burnett, Tom Harris, Robert Bradley, Ron Arnold (1937 – 2022), Cedric Keith, Mischa Popoff

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"The Trump administration deserves strong praise for standing up for American consumers and affordable energy." - James Taylor
- Environment & Energy
Germany’s Green Transition Has Hit a Brick Wall

Published December 21, 2018

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Even worse, its growing problems with wind and solar spell trouble all over the globe.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Fossil Fuels Critical to Prosperity NIPCC Report Shows

Published December 21, 2018

By H. Sterling Burnett

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Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
Climate Change Weekly #308