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House Appropriators Reject Trump’s EPA, Interior Budget Cut Requests
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The House Appropriations Committee’s draft bill to fund the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for fiscal year 2019 provides substantially more funding than President Donald Trump requested. -
EPA Policy: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #291 -
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Should Be Applauded, Not Attacked
Opinion -Editorial -Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has unquestionably been the most effective official in President Donald Trump’s administration. -
President Trump’s War – On Government’s War On America
Opinion -Editorial -United States’ governments at all levels have for decades been at war with America and Americans. -
Legislative Pulse: Alaska Fights Federal Overreach on Water, Wildlife
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Alaska state Sen. John Coghill (R-Fairbanks) explains why Alaska must maintain control of wildlife on public lands and construct new natural gas infrastructure. -
Legislative Pulse: Wisconsin REINing in Agencies’ Regulations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Wisconsin state Sen. Frank Lasee (R-Ledgeview), cosponsored the Wisconsin REINS Act requiring any rule with a fiscal impact exceeding $10 million over two years be approved by the legislature before taking effect. -
Transforming the Science Used For (Climate) Regulations
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #257 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Names Former Congressman Tim Huelskamp Incoming President
Opinion -Press Release -Huelskamp Will Succeed Founding President Joseph Bast, Who Has Led the Illinois-based, National Free-Market Think Tank Since 1984 Founding -
US Funding Dubious Science and Unfounded Fear
Opinion -Editorial -Eco-militants that defiled scientific integrity in government agencies defy corrections. -
Leading the Charge for Limited Government
Opinion -Editorial -Almost 100 days into the new administration and some in the media are already writing and talking about the “do-nothing” Congress and presidential administration, despite their massive accomplishments. -
Minnesota Peat Mine Wins Wetlands Case Against Army Corps of Engineers
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge in Minnesota ruled a peat mining company did not need a wetlands permit from the Army Corps of Engineers or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand its operations onto adjacent private property. -
Trump Cites Wyoming Rancher While Signing Waters of the U.S. Order
Opinion -Editorial -Calling it one of the worst examples of federal regulation, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 28 directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and revise its “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule. -
The Truth About EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s ‘Scandals’
Opinion -Editorial -Scott Pruitt told CPAC on Saturday that he wants to roll back suffocating Obama-era environmental regulations and return the agency to environmental sanity. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Confirmation of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator
Opinion -Press Release -‘Pruitt brings to the position a record of extraordinary competence, managerial skill, experience with environmental issues from the perspective of a state official, and, importantly, expertise in constitutional law.’ – Bette Grande -
Conservation – Not More Control
Opinion -Editorial -Collusive lawsuits helped control more US lands. Congress must repeal and replace the ESA. -
Climate Alarmists Push Panic Button
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #236 -
House Funding Bill Would Block Environmental Regulations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The proposed 2017 Department of Interior and Environment Appropriations bill passed by the House would reduce funding for and block key Obama administration environment programs. -
Who is Guarding the (Dictatorial) Guards?
Opinion -Editorial -Regulators mete out fines and stymie growth, but are rarely punished for their own misconduct. -
Lawsuits Piling Up Against Obama EPA
Opinion -Lawsuits challenging various environmental regulations are piling up. On March 3, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts declined to halt an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule regulating mercury emissions from power plants. -
The Bogus EPA is Causing Everyone Real Problems
Opinion -Let us conduct an overview just of what we have only recently learned about theunconstitutional, overreaching and abusive Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). -
Proposed BLM Fracking Rules Could Hurt North Dakota Oil and Gas Production
Opinion -Rules recently proposed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) concerning the capture of natural gas released as a by-product of oil production on public lands in North Dakota threatens to limit production within the massive Bakken Shale region of the -
EPA Caught Breaking Lobbying Law with ‘Covert Propaganda’
Opinion -The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has determined the U.S. -
Republican Presidential New Year’s Resolution: Shut Down the Ridiculous EPA
Opinion -Happy New Year, All. ’Tis the time to resolve them if you’ve got them. For Republican presidential primary contenders, here’s an anti-Establishment thought: Pledge to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). -
Did the GOP Congress Change Energy Policy?
Opinion -Last year, when Republicans gained a decisive edge in both houses of Congress, I made predictions as to the six energy-policy changes we could expect—as the two parties have very different views on energy issues.