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How States Can Push Back Against the Destructive Expansion of Industrial Solar Power
Publication -Policy Studies -As more states consider expanding their solar footprint, it is vital for policymakers to examine the full consequences of this energy source. -
Education: Tenure and Labor Unions
Opinion -We need to add a separation of state and education to our Constitution now if we want to stop the abuse of education. -
Teachers Need To Ditch Their Union
Opinion -Teachers’ unions are bad for teachers, students, and taxpayers. -
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Congress Looks at Fast-Tracking Drugs, Devices Approved in Other Countries
Publication -“Washington bureaucracy and regulations far too often interfere with health care decisions of patients and their doctors,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in joining forces with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) to reintroduce the bicameral Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments (RESULT) Act, opening the door for more drugs, devices. The legislation would allow the […] -
Climate Change Weekly # 540 — ‘Cheap’ Wind and Solar Raise Electricity Prices
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
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New York Backs Off Ban on ‘Consent to Pay’ Patient Forms
Publication -The state of New York is revising a law that would have prohibited hospitals and health care practices from requiring patients to sign “consent to pay” forms before receiving treatment. NY Public Health Law (PHL) 18 was set to take effect in late 2024. It is in limbo after the New York State Department of […] -
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Baby Formula Will Get First Federal Review Since 1998
Publication -Government health agencies have launched an effort to ensure “quality, safety, nutritional adequacy, and resilience” of infant formula in the United States. Under Operation Stork Speed, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will review the nutrients in infant formula and increase testing for heavy-metal contamination. Companies will have to provide transparent and clear labeling on […] -
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Feds Allocate Another $1 Billion to Stop Bird Flu, Cut Egg Prices
Publication -The federal government is allocating an additional $1 billion to combat the avian flu, an outbreak of which led to the killing of millions of healthy chickens and soaring egg prices over the past 12 months. Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins unveiled a “comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), protect the U.S. […] -
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Trump Administration Downsizes Federal Health Agencies
Publication -Ten thousand staffers at federal health agencies received pink slips on April 1 in a major overhaul to shrink the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) headcount from 82,000 to 62,000. “Our hearts go out to those who have lost their jobs,” posted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy on X. “But the reality is […] -
PRESS RELEASE: New Heartland Study Finds Trump Tax Cuts Delivered Largest Benefits to Working-Class Americans, Not the Rich
Opinion -Press Release -Though all filers received income tax reductions, working-class Americans received substantially higher tax rate cuts than higher-income filers. -
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Trump Orders Hospitals to Disclose Prices, ‘Not Estimates’
Publication -President Donald Trump ordered the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to develop a framework to enforce hospital price transparency, within 90 days. Trump originally established the rule during his first term in office, but compliance and enforcement under the Biden administration were weak. Trump signed the new “Making America Healthy Again […] -
Tax Cuts & Jobs Act: An Updated Study on the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on U.S. Personal Income Taxes
Publication -Policy Briefs -The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) reduced the average amount of personal income taxes paid by filers in every income bracket, with the largest benefits going to lower- and middle-income households. -
Climate Change Weekly # 539 — Is the End Nigh for Carbon Cons?
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
The Feds Are Hiding the Eagle Death Data
Opinion -Wind power is killing a lot of eagles. The federal government is tracking this destruction, but it is all a big secret. We have a right to know what is happening to our eagles. -
US Military Exits Climate Change After Wasteful Decade
Opinion -The United States military has pursued an increasing number of programs to try to fight climate change for more than a decade. But under the Trump Administration, climate change mitigation will no longer be an objective. -
Demand in U.S. Electricity Elevates Risk of Wind/Solar and Highlights Need for Nuclear Power
Opinion -Despite massive federal funding for renewables that only generate electricity under favorable weather conditions, the solutions for continuous and uninterruptible electricity seem to be farther away than ever. -
PRESS RELEASE: Free-Market Coalition Urges Trump Administration, Congress to Counter Economically Ruinous European Union Law
Opinion -Press Release -The European Union’s recently enacted Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) would ‘impose foreign ideological mandates on U.S. businesses, and erode national sovereignty.’ -
Defending American Sovereignty: Opposing the EU’s Overreach Through the CSDDD
Publication -American policymakers must take decisive action to protect U.S. businesses from the destructive influence of foreign ESG mandates that serve political interests rather than economic well-being. -
New Heartland Study: European Union Is on the Verge of Vassalizing America Through New Global ESG Law
Opinion -Press Release -The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union. -
CSDDD: The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Is a Direct Threat to U.S. Sovereignty, Free Markets, and Individual Liberty
Publication -Policy Studies -It is difficult to overstate the wide-ranging negative impacts the CSDDD will have on the sovereignty and democratic institutions of the United States. -
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Federal Court Blocks NIH Research Grant Administrative Fee Rate
Publication -A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a nationwide preliminary injunction to stop the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from setting “indirect costs” for grants at a flat rate of 15 percent. “Indirect costs” are paid to universities and research institutions to cover administrative expenses attributed to research projects. Indirect costs can run as high as […] -
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Judge Blocks President’s Ban on Child Trans Treatments
Publication -A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order defunding institutions that perform transgender treatments on children. U.S. District Judge Brendan Hurson in the District of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction on March 4 preventing the order, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” from going into effect. The judge ordered the injunction in response […] -
Research and Commentary: Florida Bill Would Reform Flawed Step Therapy Program
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would empower health care providers to prescribe the best-suited medications for Floridians on Medicaid suffering from “serious mental illnesses” without having to initially prescribe possibly inferior, cheaper medications. The bill, SB 264, “would create an exception to what is known as ‘step therapy’ for a series of psychiatric […] -
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ID Verification for Entitlements Can Save $1 Trillion a Year, CEO Tells Congress
Publication -Simply verifying recipients’ identification could save $1 trillion in entitlement spending per year, LexisNexis Special Services CEO Haywood Talcove told a congressional committee. “Between federal, state, and local government, you can save one trillion dollars a year by simply putting in front-end identity verification, eliminating self-certification, and monitoring the back-end of the programs that are […]
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