Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Senate’s Failure to Revoke Methane Emission Rule
Opinion -"This rule does nothing to help the environment, but it does add costs to oil and gas extraction on public lands." - H. Sterling Burnett -
Kimmel, Congress Teach How (Not) to Message on Health Care
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #545 -
Bill to Divest from Fossil Fuel Is a Senate Power Grab That Will Hurt New Yorkers
Opinion -There's a good reason that the comptroller has sole authority over investment decisions. -
Colorado Considers Bills Tackling Expected Teacher Shortage
Opinion -Colorado lawmakers introduced several pieces of legislation this session to address concerns over an expected teacher shortage in the state. -
Evidence Undermines Climate Consensus Claims, Science Panelists Say
Opinion -Scientists on ICCC-12's panel on climate science agreed human greenhouse gas emissions are not causing dangerous climate change. -
Group Tries to Halt Expansion of Arizona’s ESA Program
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #178 -
Wisconsin Schools of Choice Outperform Public Schools, Study Finds
Opinion -Private schools participating in Wisconsin’s school choice programs outperform the state’s public schools, a new study has found. -
Inspector General Finds Interior Dept. Administrative Leave Abuse
Opinion -The U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) inspector general found between 2013 and 2016, nearly 250 DOI employees were on extended paid administrative leave, costing taxpayers more than $6 million. -
Defund Climate Change Research to Pay for Pre-Existing Conditions
Opinion -Take the billions of dollars that’s going toward what supposedly is a settled science issue — climate change — and use it to create a pool for pre-existing conditions. -
When It Comes to a Carbon Tax, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Opinion -New York Times op-ed writer and former editor Tina Rosenberg cites the United Kingdom’s allegedly positive experience imposing a carbon tax of more than $20 per ton of CO2 as proof that such policies can save consumers a bundle of money. -
Political Planning Versus Personal Planning by Everyone
Opinion -In politics everyone has a plan. -
Cuomo’s ‘Free College’ Gambit Exacts a Heavy Price
Opinion -New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) may figure that becoming the first governor to champion and sign “free four-year college” legislation will give him a campaign slogan sure to appeal to fans of the socialist heartthrob Bernie -
Refocusing a Chicago Water Summit
Opinion -Proposed EPA budget cuts have activists in dither over wrong issues and imaginary problems. -
Heartland Weekly: Ding Dong, Obamacare Is Dead – Heartland Experts React
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted 217–213 to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The bill repeals and replaces Obamacare – something Republicans have promised to do since 2010. -
UC Berkeley Drops Free Online Videos in Response to Government Threat
Opinion -Bowing to pressure initiated during the Obama administration, the University of California-Berkeley is removing thousands of online lectures it previously provided free to the public. -
Protesters Disrupt Speakers at Elite Colleges
Opinion -Turmoil and ideological divisiveness continue at America’s colleges, evidenced by recent incidents at two elite liberal arts schools in New England, Middlebury College in Vermont and Wellesley College in Massachusetts. -
ICCC Panel Critiques Obama’s ‘Social Cost of Carbon’
Opinion -The social cost of carbon is a calculation, meaning the price of the global “damage” caused by releasing an extra ton of carbon dioxide, developed by the Obama administration, overstates the harm caused by carbon dioxide and understates its benefits. -
The Clean Power Plan: An Autopsy Of A Terrible Regulation
Opinion -CPP, if implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), would have only averted .019 degrees C of potential future warming by 2100. This amount is too low to be accurately measured with even the most sophisticated scientific equipment. -
Feds Should Look Inward to Expand School Choice
Opinion -In a question-and-answer session at a recent White House-staged CEO business town hall, President Donald Trump once again expressed his belief in local control of education. -
Drain the Swamp of the Biofuels Waste of Tax Dollars
Opinion -Policies on developing renewable energy resources, in particular during the Obama Administration, have led to waste of billions of tax dollars. -
Apple: ‘We Won’t Pay You. We’ll Keep Using Your Stuff – But We Won’t Pay You’
Opinion -Computer giant Apple is currently in a huge intellectual property dispute with tech innovation giant Qualcomm. -
Betsy DeVos Passes First Committee Test on Road to U.S. Ed Sec Confirmation
Opinion -Betsy DeVos Passes First Committee Test on Road to U.S. Ed Sec Confirmation -
Path from Paris
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #248 -
As Always Everywhere, ‘Green Energy’ Is Killing New York’s Economy
Opinion -New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appears to loathe actual energy. You know, oil, gas, coal, etc. The sources of energy that actually produce energy – cheaply and efficiently.