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  • Greenhouse Gas Cuts Proving Illusory

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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’

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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

    Published June 13, 2011
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    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.

  • High Energy Prices Are Benefiting Some States

    Published June 13, 2011
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    As gasoline prices rise, most Americans cringe. But two oil-producing states are reaping benefits from higher gas prices, as rising oil prices translate to billions of dollars in tax revenue for Alaska and Texas.

  • #276: Gaming the System

    Published June 13, 2011
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    You’ve doubtless heard the news about the troubling McKinsey Quarterly study showing “30 percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering [employer-sponsored insurance] in the years after 2014.

  • Heartland Institute Praises Effort to Stop Arbitrary LCB Fee Increases

    Published June 13, 2011
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    On Monday, June 13, state Rep. Mark Mustio (R-Moon Township) introduced legislation that will prohibit the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board from implementing any fee or price increase without the approval of the legislature and governor.

  • LightSquared Waiver Rescinded by FCC After Legislators’ Letters

    Published June 13, 2011
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    Washington lawmakers continue to grapple with the potential interference to global positioning satellites posed by provider LightSquared’s long-term-evolution terrestrial wireless broadband network.

  • Mesmerizing Insight into the Infamous Hockey Stick Scandal

    Published June 13, 2011
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    Review of The Hockey Stick Illusion, by A.W. Montford (Stacey Intl., 2010), 482 pages, ISBN-13: 978:1906768355Cutting-edge science, mystery, and whodunit intrigue rarely merge in a single book. Rarer still do they merge in nonfiction. In A. W.

  • Study: Wind Power Generation Disappoints

    Published June 13, 2011
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    Because of the intermittent nature of wind power, it cannot serve as a standalone power source and can displace only a minimal amount of conventional power, concludes a new study by energy researcher George S. Taylor.

  • NEA to Buy More Votes with Video Game Grants

    Published June 11, 2011
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    The rarefied world of government arts funding apparently has run out of artists specializing in elephant dung and human-urine media.

  • ‘Zombie’ Spending on Things Already Consumed

    Published June 10, 2011
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    Has the post-crisis bounce finally exhausted itself? It’s beginning to look like it. But you wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out be just another feint to the downside, would you? We’ve seen several.

  • NEA to buy votes with video-game grants

    Published June 10, 2011
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    The rarefied world of government arts funding apparently has run out of artists specializing in elephant dung and human-urine media.

  • School Options Truly Liberate Parents

    Published June 9, 2011
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    Your editorial "Emancipation proclamation" (May 31) showed justifiable outrage over the 4-3 Georgia Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state-level alternative route for parents who had been frustrated by recalcitrant local school boards in their

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Sen. James Inhofe to Kick Off Heartland Institute’s 6th Climate Conference in DC

    Published June 9, 2011
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    WHAT: Sixth International Conference on Climate ChangeWHERE: Marriott Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DCWHEN: June 30 and July 1, 2011Sen.

  • Google’s Corporate Ethics Challenged in New Book

    Published June 8, 2011
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    Review of Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google, Inc., by Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky, Telescope Books, St. Louis, Missouri, 2011, ISBN-10: 0980038324, $28.95, 329 pages.Even paranoiacs have real enemies, goes the adage.

  • Sling Shot

    Published June 8, 2011
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    A small company selling baby slings on the Internet has gone out of business after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) investigated the owner’s slings, ordered her to recall them, and finally--years later--found her product safe.

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