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Alternative View: Paris Agreement Reflects Reality – a Step Forward?

Published December 31, 2015

By H. Sterling Burnett

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Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
Climate Change Weekly #197 Benny Peiser, Ph.D.
The Leaflet – States and Cities Consider Minimum Wage Changes

Published September 18, 2015

By Nathan Makla

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The Leaflet -
States and Cities Consider Minimum Wage ChangesEarlier this summer, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) vetoed a bill that would disallow local municipalities from increasing the minimum wage above the $7.65 per hour statewide rate.
- Environment & Energy
States Are Right to Pressure EPA with ‘Nullification’ Efforts

Published September 15, 2015

Opinion -
Sixteen state attorneys general recently announced the filing of a multistate lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
- Environment & Energy
Climate Crisis, Inc.

Published August 25, 2015

By Paul Driessen

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- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
White House Cancels Clean Coal Project

Published April 13, 2015

By Kenneth Artz

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A project with which President Obama hoped to cement his environmental legacy during his remaining years in office has failed.The Obama administration touted FutureGen, and its successor, FutureGen 2.
- Environment & Energy
Research & Commentary: Kansas Renewable Portfolio Standard

Published March 11, 2015

By Nathan Makla, Taylor Smith

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Research and Commentaries -
In 2009, then-Gov. Mark Parkinson (D) signed into law Kansas’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS), requiring at least 10 percent of electricity generation capacity in Kansas be from renewable sources.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Cromnibus Environmental Provisions Stymie Obama Environmental Efforts

Published February 4, 2015

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The 1,600-page “Cromnibus” —a blend of "omnibus" and "CR," short for "continuing resolution"— spending bill passed the lame duck Congress in mid-December and was signed into law by President Barack Obama just before Christmas.
- Environment & Energy
Research & Commentary: Michigan Renewable Portfolio Standard Repeal

Published November 5, 2014

By Taylor Smith

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Research and Commentaries -
In 2008, then-governor Jennifer Granholm signed into law Michigan’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS), requiring all state utilities to generate 10 percent of all retail electricity sales from renewable sources by 2015. Recently, state Rep.
- Environment & Energy
Heartland Institute Climate Experts Comment on 18 Straight Years of No Global Warming

Published October 9, 2014

By Craig Idso, James Taylor, Kenneth Haapala, Tom Harris, H. Sterling Burnett, James H. Rust, Marc Morano, John Coleman (1934-2018), Mischa Popoff, Alan Caruba (1938-2015)

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According to satellite data released this month by Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), which provides data used by NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation, the global mean surface temperature has not risen for 18 consecutive years.
- Environment & Energy
Energy and Earthquakes in Ohio

Published July 29, 2014

By Isaac Orr

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Ohio sits above the Utica and Marcellus shales, two geologic formations that have rich energy potential waiting to be unlocked by the process of hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking.
- Environment & Energy
Welcome to the “No Pee” Section of the Swimming Pool

Published June 2, 2014

By Marita Noon

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America is poised to become the “no pee” section of the global swimming pool and the useless actions will cost us a bundle—raising energy costs, adding new taxes, and crippling the economy. Even some environmentalists agree.
- Environment & Energy
America’s Power Grid at the Limit: The Road to Electrical Blackouts

Published April 24, 2014

By Steve Goreham

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Americans take electricity for granted. Electricity powers our lights, our computers, our offices, and our industries. But misguided environmental policies are eroding the reliability of our power system.
- Environment & Energy
US Electricity System in Regulatory and Terrorist Crosshairs

Published March 25, 2014

By Paul Driessen

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Government agencies are forcing us to spend countless billions on illusory risks and anti-fossil fuel mandates, while ignoring real threats to our livelihoods, living standards and lives.America runs on electricity.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Nebraska Sues EPA over Power Plant CO2 Restrictions

Published February 6, 2014

By Alyssa Carducci

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The State of Nebraska has filed a suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for overreaching restrictions on carbon emissions from coal-power plants.
- Environment & Energy
The Inventor of the Global Warming Hockey Stick Doubles Down

Published January 22, 2014

By S. Fred Singer (1924 – 2020)

Opinion -
Professor Michael Mann, the inventor of the Hockeystick temperature graph, had a contentious editorial essay in the January 17 issue of the New York Times.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
Supreme Court Will Hear Case on EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Published December 27, 2013

By Kenneth Artz

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an important case involving a narrow aspect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other stationary sources of pollution.
No ‘Incredibly Small’ Wars Against Energy by Obama

Published September 18, 2013

By Marita Noon

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Look closely at the energy-related news stories of the past dozen or so days, and, between the lines, you’ll see a theme: government makes predictions and assertions that cannot be backed up by data to protect or project preferred messaging.
- Environment & Energy
The EPA’s War on America

Published September 17, 2013

By Alan Caruba (1938-2015)

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Among the targets to disable an enemy’s ability to wage war is their energy infrastructure.
Duke Energy’s ‘Clean Coal’ Power Plant Off to Bad Start

Published August 9, 2013

By Paul Chesser

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Duke Energy’s “green” initiative to gasify coal for allegedly “cleaner” burning at its Edwardsport, Ind.
- Environment & Energy
National Research Council: Hydraulic Fracturing Poses Low Risk of Earthquakes

Published July 12, 2012

By James Taylor

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The production of oil and natural gas through hydraulic fracturing methods creates only a low risk for inducing earthquakes that can be felt by people, the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes in a new study.
- Environment & Energy
EPA’s Coal Decision Creates Vulnerability

Published May 17, 2012

By Richard J. Trzupek

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While the Environmental Protection Agency was busy drafting rules to destroy the American coal industry, it overlooked the fact that coal’s greater enemy was already on the hunt.
- Environment & Energy
Heartland Institute Responds to EPA Emissions Rule

Published March 27, 2012

By Richard J. Trzupek, James Taylor

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Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S.
- Climate Change
- Environment & Energy
New Temperature Study Misses the Point

Published October 27, 2011

By James Taylor

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Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
Climate Change Weekly #28The mainstream media has been spiking the football in the proverbial end zone ever since a paper released October 21 claimed two-thirds of global temperature stations show some warming occurred during the past century.
Obama’s EPA Goes on Gas Attack

Published November 29, 2010

By Maureen Martin (1947 – 2013)

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On November 15, 2010, President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rules requiring large industries to use the “best available control technology” to limit their greenhouse gas emissions.