Opinion
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New Mexico Considers a Fracking Moratorium
Opinion -For the second consecutive year, Democrats in New Mexico have introduced legislation to impose a four-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and subject existing operating wells to expanded reporting requirements. -
Trump Administration Offers Clean Water Act Reforms
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has offered a series of regulatory reforms to the 1972 Clean Water Act, to protect states’ legitimate authority over land and water within their borders and to protect property rights. -
U.S. Energy Department Rejects Obama-Era Light Bulb Proposal
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the current standards for general service incandescent light bulbs are sufficient and do not need to be amended. -
Death, Taxes and Prosperity
Opinion -We like taxing businesses because they appear rich. Yet the question of who truly pays business taxes is very complicated. -
Do ‘Green’ Buses Pass the Performance Test?
Opinion -Do ‘green’ buses pass the performance test? -
HHS Urged to Update HIPAA to Protect Patient Medical Records
Opinion -The data sharing deal between Google and Ascension Health raises patient privacy concerns. -
High Schoolers’ Dream Careers Don’t Match Job Market Reality
Opinion -OECD Report finds teenagers’ choices for an “ideal career” have narrowed over the past two decades and don’t reflect the new economy. -
Partners in Liberty: Washington Policy Center
Opinion -The Washington Policy Center is a free-market, public policy think tank based in Seattle. The organization’s experts focus on several key areas of policy, including agriculture, education, environment, government reform, health care, and transportation. -
Physician Group Sues Adam Schiff for Attempting to Censure Vaccine Debate
Opinion -The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and a New York state resident are suing U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) for trying to suppress what he deems “inaccurate” vaccine information on the internet. -
Commentary: Happiness, Thy Name Is National School Choice Week
Opinion -"The growth of this event serves as an indicator of the rising American interest in families having as free a choice among schools as they have when they pick out a pair of shoes at the mall. " -
Profile: Empire Center – Working Toward A Better New York
Opinion -New York has earned its reputation as a high-tax state, but a major policy win by the Empire Center is helping change that. -
Feds Take Action Against Doctors Who Fail to Provide Patient Records
Opinion -The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has started enforcing a provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that has been in effect since 1996. -
Heartland Weekly: Alarmists Dial Back Dire Scenarios
Opinion -Week of February 10, 2020 -
Congressional Resolution on Physician Assisted Suicide Gets Bipartisan Support
Opinion -A congressional resolution to block the legalization of physician assisted suicide is receiving bipartisan support as states continue to legalize “death with dignity.” -
Scientists Committed False Alarming Climate Advertising
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #350 -
Feds Probe Red-Light Camera Corruption in Illinois, Legislators Back Ban
Opinion -Across the United States, 341 communities use red-light cameras, including 68 municipalities in Illinois, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. -
PRESS RELEASE: German YouTube Personality Naomi Seibt Joins The Heartland Institute
Opinion -The 19-year-old influencer will concentrate on communicating climate realism to her generation in Europe and the United States. -
Politicized Veganism Threatens Human Health and Liberty
Opinion -Some politicians have joined anti-meat and climate change activists in a massive effort to restructure the American diet by mandating a worldwide plant-based diet. -
Democratic Presidential Contenders Push for Climate ‘Stress Test’ Requirement on Banks
Opinion -Several Democratic presidential candidates want the federal government to require periodic “stress tests” on large banks to ensure they can handle potential economic blows from climate change. -
Mandatory Union Bargaining Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Opinion -A teacher at at the University of Maine is contesting representation by the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine (AFUM). -
Bird Conservation Groups Sue over Lake Erie Industrial Wind Facility
Opinion -Two bird conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit claiming federal agencies did not follow federal law during the approval process for the Icebreaker Wind industrial facility on Lake Erie. -
Investors Clamoring to Advance Kidney Care, Says HHS Deputy Secretary
Opinion -President Donald Trump’s kidney care initiative has energized investors and innovators, Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan told The Heartland Daily Podcast, -
New York Overrides Municipal Ban on Industrial Wind Facility, Impacts Eagle Population
Opinion -State Regulators in New York approved a 124-megawatt Bluestone industrial wind facility, despite strong objections from the Delaware Otsego Audubon Society and a last-minute zoning ordinance enacted by the Town of Sanford to block the project. -
Prince of Hypocrisy: Charles Racks Up Private Flight Miles, CO2 Emissions
Opinion -According to climate activists, air travel—and especially private air travel—is one of the most wasteful and unnecessary sources of carbon dioxide emissions and a major cause of climate change.