Opinion
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Tax Reform Sparks Indiana Electricity Price Drop
Opinion -Energy prices in Indiana will be falling during the next year, a result of ripple effects from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. -
Arizona Supreme Court Approves San Pedro River Development
Opinion -Denying environmentalists challenges, Arizona’s Supreme Court has ruled a new 7,000 unit residential housing development planned near the San Pedro River can move forward. -
EPA’s Non-Politicized Science Benefits Americans
Opinion -A direct challenge to the hardcore enviros who heretofore controlled and corrupted the agency. -
To Pay or Not to Pay: The Big Business of Collegiate Sports
Opinion -As the leaves start to fall and tailgaters fire up their grills, the eternal question of whether or not college athletes should be paid has returned to the forefront of barroom banter. -
More Misplaced Environmentalist Outrage
Opinion -Greens are angry that Interior modified a rule they wanted to use to attack energy and ranching. -
EPA Broadens Enforcement Scrutiny Beyond Oil, Gas, and Agriculture
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it is phasing out its special focus on pollution enforcement against the oil and gas industry and livestock producers. -
The Emerging U.S. Energy Powerhouse
Opinion -The United States is emerging as the world’s energy powerhouse. Two months ago, the United States became the largest producer of crude oil. Exports of crude oil, oil products and natural gas are rising rapidly. -
Thank God: Another Awful Obama Legacy Item Getting A Trump Makeover
Opinion -The Barack Obama Administration was awful for America, We the People – and the public policies that make the awfulness possible. In ways and directions too numerous to count. -
Study: ‘Medicare for All’ Would Cost $32.6 Trillion Over First 10 Years
Opinion -Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I–VT) plan for a national, single-payer health insurance system, known as “Medicare for All,” would cost $32.6 trillion over its first 10 years, according to a new study by George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. -
Four Cities Sue Trump Admininstration Over Obamacare
Opinion -The cities of Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Columbus filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a Maryland federal court, alleging the president is not faithfully executing the ACA and is unconstitutionally 'sabotaging' the law. -
Wisconsin Faces Massive Unfunded Health Care Liabilities
Opinion -Twenty-five Wisconsin cities face a total of nearly $2.25 billion in unfunded liabilities, many of which are related to health care benefits promised to retired workers, a Wisconsin Policy Forum report shows. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Senate Attempt to Ban Short-term Health Plans
Opinion -' Let’s hope that election-year gimmicks do not steal this desperately-needed option from millions of Americans' - Tim Huelskamp -
Minnesota Utility Proposes Biogas Pilot Program
Opinion -Centerpoint Energy of Minnesota asked the Minnesota Public Utility Commission to allow a pilot program in which its customers could purchase renewable natural gas as fuel for home heating and cooking. -
Quinn Slobodian and the Academic Attack on Mises and Hayek
Opinion -We are living in a world of the anti-liberal counter-attack against individual liberty, free markets and limited government. -
Anti-2nd Amendment, Anti-Energy Bloomberg’s Latest Big Money Assault On Freedom
Opinion -Billionaire Michael Bloomberg long ago joined a coterie of Leftists billionaires – who have become snide caricatures of themselves. -
PRESS RELEASE: Congressional Climate Solutions Caucus Betrays Republican Voters
Opinion -‘Climate Solutions Caucus works hand-in-hand with the leftist Citizens’ Climate Lobby’ -
When Will the Music Stop? No One Knows, But When It Does the Bill to Taxpayers Will Be Huge
Opinion -It has been said that economists have predicted “nine of the last five recessions,” or words to that effect, suggesting that the “dismal science” can’t be trusted. -
Can Poor Families Sue John Kerry for Climate Policy Deaths?
Opinion -Conjectural future tolls from climate change pale compared to real energy poverty deaths now. -
Heartland Weekly: Taking Down the Climate Solutions Caucus
Opinion -Week of October 1, 2018 -
The IPCC is still wrong on climate change. Scientists prove it.
Opinion -On October 8, the IPCC released a special report on the alleged impacts of global warming. Three days earlier, NIPCC released the Summary for Policymakers of its own forthcoming report. The two reports tell dramatically different stories. -
Lizard’s Legal Status Threatens Texas Oil and Gas Operations
Opinion -Texans are once again engaged in a battle to protect both a tiny reptile—the dunes sagebrush lizard—and the giant Permian Basin oil and gas industry. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote
Opinion -"Welcome to the court, Justice Kavanaugh." - Heartland Institute President Tim Huelskamp -
Lessons from Other Countries: an Unprincipled Appeal to Authority
Opinion -Lessons from foreign nations should be viewed with skepticism for three reasons. -
PRESS RELEASE: International Panel Calls for End to Global War on Fossil Fuels
Opinion -The 27-page Summary provides an early look at a 1,000-page report expected to be released on December 4 at a climate science symposium during the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-24) in Katowice, Poland.