Opinion
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Climate or Crash Risk in Your Vehicle Choice
Opinion -Environmentalists are coming after your car—again. And what they don’t want you to know is their crusade, if successful, would result in a multitude of unnecessary deaths. -
Kansas, Nebraska Fight EPA’s Rule on Ethanol Emissions
Opinion -Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning have joined the Energy Future Coalition and the Urban Air Initiative in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations changing how ethanol -
Thirty Years Promoting Freedom
Opinion -Very few organizations survive 30 years, and very few people work for the same organization for that long. That makes The Heartland Institute an exceptional organization, and it makes me a very lucky guy. -
Washington Governor Proposes Carbon Tax
Opinion -Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has pushed an ambitious cap-and-trade program requiring the state's largest industries to pay for every ton of CO2 they release. -
‘Right to Try’ Could Bring Hope to Tennessee Patients
Opinion -Legislation introduced in Tennessee could give patients speedy access to drugs that have been proven safe and show promise in treating their medical conditions but have yet to clear all the hurdles of the federal drug approval process. -
Millennials Must Recognize Need for Public Pension System Reform
Opinion -Since the midterm elections, there has been much talk about the young people who didn’t turn out to vote. There are approximately 8 million millennials, people ages 18 to 35, in California. -
Exposed EPA Memo: Tie Fighting Global Warming to Americans’ ‘Personal Worries’
Opinion -An Environmental Protection Agency memo sent to top officials implored the agency to build up support for its agenda by tying its regulatory agenda to the “personal worries” of Americans. -
Cromnibus Reinstates Wind Production Tax Credit
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Chimpanzee Not a Person, NY Court Declares
Opinion -An attempt by the animal rights group Nonhuman Rights Project to have Tommy the chimpanzee granted “legal personhood” failed in a New York appellate court in early December. -
States Take the Lead on Transportation Fund Reform
Opinion -While some members of Congress are pressing for an increase in the federal gas tax, responsibility for funding transportation projects is increasingly shifting from the federal government to the states. -
Dubious State of the Union Health Care Claims Answered
Opinion -In his State of the Union address to Congress on January 20, President Barack Obama made several statements concerning health care, and both his factual claims and his conclusions are dubious, as the following analysis shows. -
States Challenge Federal Control of Western Lands
Opinion -The large swaths of federal lands in western states are at the center of a debate over the future of tens of millions of acres between the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. -
Unintended and Unethical Climate Policy Consequences
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #156 Should governments act now to prevent the possibility of dangerous human-caused climate change, even if the chances for future harm are exceedingly small? -
Nevada Lawmaker Renews Fight for Public Pension Reform
Opinion -As the gap between public pension liabilities and actual fund assets widens, a Nevada lawmaker is redoubling his efforts to defuse a ticking fiscal time bomb in the state. For several years, State Rep. -
HHS: Medicaid Patients Have Limited Access to Doctors
Opinion -A new study by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services found half of all providers listed in Medicaid managed care plan are not available to new Medicaid patients, either because they are not at the listed location -
New Orleans Passes Sweeping Smoking Ban
Opinion -In late January, the New Orleans City Council approved a sweeping ban on smoking in the city, outlawing all cigarette and e-cigarette use in all privately owned bars and clubs, public recreational areas, sports arenas, and movie theaters. -
Bogus Research on Formaldehyde in E-Cig Vapor
Opinion -The New England Journal of Medicine yesterday published a letter claiming that vapor contains “hidden” formaldehyde at far higher levels than cigarettes (here), which made headlines worldwide. -
Medicaid Expansion’s Bad Priorities
Opinion -Gov. Bill Haslam proposes to expand Tennessee’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. -
Cuomo Cozies up to Environmentalists, Bans Fracking in New York
Opinion -New York made history on December 17th, 2014 as Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state would ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” becoming the first state with significant deposits of oil or natural gas to do so. -
States’ Cigarette Sin Taxes Drive Booming Underground Markets
Opinion -States’ excise taxes on tobacco, intended to curb tobacco use, are instead causing unintended consequences such as black-market sales and other extralegal economic activity, according to a new study of consumer behavior. -
DOJ Abandons Civil Asset Forfeiture ‘Adoption’ Program
Opinion -A federal program allowing local law enforcement to receive shares of assets seized from citizens without criminal charges or search warrants has ended, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced in late January.Since 2008, the U.S. -
U.S. Oil and Gas Reserves Soar
Opinion -Continuing a trend that has sent ripples through global energy markets in recent years, U.S. oil and natural gas reserves hit new highs in 2013, according to a December 2014 Energy Information Administration report.Proved natural gas reserves rose 9. -
Obamacare Insurance Tax Will Hit State Budgets
Opinion -Thirty-six states that rely on private managed-care programs to provide medical services to all or some of their Medicaid recipients are facing added costs caused by the Affordable Care Act, according to a report by the actuarial consulting firm Milliman. -
Heartland Institute Experts React to West Virginia Legislature’s Repeal of Renewable Power Mandates
Opinion -The West Virginia House today passed a bill that would repeal the state’s Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio by a vote of 95-4.
