Opinion
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Reacts to Failed U.S. Senate Vote to Kill Ethanol Subsidy
Opinion -MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Reacts toFailed U.S. Senate Vote to Kill Ethanol SubsidyOn Tuesday, June 14, the Senate will vote on an amendment to the Economic Development Reauthorization Act (S. -
Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruling ‘Resounding Humiliation’ for Judge Who Blocked Gov. Walker’s Budget Bill
Opinion -The Wisconsin Supreme Court late Tuesday overturned a Madison Circuit Court judge's ruling invalidating Republican Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill. -
MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Corrects Record, Rebuts Education Blogger’s Attack on Taxpayers’ Savings Grants in Texas
Opinion -MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Corrects Record,Rebuts Education Blogger’s Attack on Taxpayers’ Savings Grants in TexasOn May 18, a Texas-based education consultant and blogger named Ed Fuller posted an essay titled “Vouchers? -
Heartland Institute Corrects Record, Rebuts Education Blogger’s Attack on Taxpayers’ Savings Grants in Texas
Opinion -On May 18, a Texas-based education consultant and blogger named Ed Fuller posted an essay titled “Vouchers? A Bad Idea and Here Is [sic] Several Reasons Why” on his blog. -
Heartland Institute Reacts to Failed U.S. Senate Vote to Kill Ethanol Subsidy
Opinion -On Tuesday, June 14, the Senate will vote on an amendment to the Economic Development Reauthorization Act (S. -
MEDIA ADVISORY: Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruling ‘Resounding Humiliation’ for Judge Who Blocked Gov. Walker’s Budget Bill
Opinion -MEDIA ADVISORY: Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruling 'Resounding Humiliation' for Judge Who Blocked Gov. Walker's Budget BillThe Wisconsin Supreme Court late Tuesday overturned a Madison Circuit Court judge's ruling invalidating Republican Gov. -
Heartland Institute Praises Effort to Stop Arbitrary LCB Fee Increases in Pennsylvania
Opinion -Heartland Institute Praises Effort to StopArbitrary LCB Fee IncreasesOn Monday, June 13, state Rep. -
Western U.S. Benefiting from Break in Drought
Opinion -Above-average rainfall in many parts of the western United States and heavy winter snows in Western mountains have brought an end to drought conditions across much of the West. Also, with unusually large amounts of snow holding fast in western U.S. -
Solar Power Encounters Head Winds from Environmentalists, Regulators
Opinion -A high-profile solar energy project in California is facing serious delays as the Obama administration’s push for renewable energy has collided with its enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). -
Study: Wind Power Has Minimal Impact on Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Opinion -Wind power will fail to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as much as claimed by wind power advocates, concludes a recent study in the Renewable and Sustainability Energy Review, published by Elsevier. -
No Increase in Floods as Planet Warms
Opinion -A new study by scientists with the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, contradicts global warming alarmists’ claims that flooding is increasing worldwide. The new study bolsters previous studies showing no global increase in peak streamflows. -
Nation’s Air Quality Continues to Improve
Opinion -Air quality is improving almost everywhere in the United States, according to the American Lung Association’s (ALA) “State of the Air” report for 2011, which covers the years 2007 through 2009. -
Is Jon Huntsman Stupid?
Opinion -Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, recently made this unfortunate comment during an interview with Time magaine’s Melinda Henneberger:"[Climate change] is an issue that -
Greenhouse Gas Cuts Proving Illusory
Opinion -Recent greenhouse gas emissions cuts reported by developed nations are illusory, a new peer-reviewed study has found, as many of the cuts have occurred simply as a result of industries relocating to developing nations such as China and India. -
Chesapeake Crab Population Continues Recovery
Opinion -Despite a harsh winter this year, the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population continues to make a comeback, government wildlife officials report. -
EPA Asserts More Control over States
Opinion -States are facing increasing pressure from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to tighten regulations, and those that resist—such as North Dakota—are finding their ability to manage certain programs has been taken away completely. -
GE’s Immelt Retreats from Global Warming Rhetoric
Opinion -One of the world’s most outspoken corporate advocates of a national cap-and-trade system to limit manmade emissions of greenhouse gases now acknowledges he may have overhyped the virtues of his company’s green policies. -
Obama Administration, Environmental Lobby Responsible for Low Oil ‘Reserves’
Opinion -President Obama’s speeches sum up his views on oil, natural gas, and energy prices in just 44 words.“We have less than 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re running out of places to drill. We’re running out of oil. -
Judge Orders Release of Climate Research Documents
Opinion -The Prince William Circuit Court in the state of Virginia has ordered the University of Virginia (U.VA.) to publicly disclose climate research-related documents produced by former U.VA. Professor Michael Mann. -
Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #10-12
Opinion -A Detroit-based law firm requires its female employees to wear high-heeled shoes. That alone ought to be enough to make headlines. -
Energy Plan
Opinion -Gov. Chris Christie’s comprehensive energy plan (“Christie signals supports for building N.J. nuclear power plant,” June 7) is laudable for both its impartiality and its realism. -
New Containment Cap Makes Offshore Drilling Safer
Opinion -Deep sea oil production has just become much more environmentally friendly as the Helix Well Containment Group (HWCG), a cooperative of 24 oil and gas industry operators, has unveiled a new containment cap that can quickly halt an oil spill similar to -
Lizard Controversy in West Texas, New Mexico Oil Patch
Opinion -With the price of gasoline soaring at the pump, a three-inch-long, sand-dwelling lizard threatens one of the nation’s most prolific oil-producing regions.The dunes sagebrush lizard may soon be added to the U.S. -
Russia, Japan, Canada Say Nyet to Kyoto Follow Up
Opinion -Russia, Japan, and Canada announced at a late-May G8 summit they would not participate in an international treaty following up the Kyoto Protocol with new carbon dioxide cuts.