Publications
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Research & Commentary: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Draft Comprehensive Study Finds Frac Sand Mining Environmentally Sound
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A draft report of a strategic analysis of the mining of industrial silica sand, also called “frac sand,” was released in June 2016 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). -
Research & Commentary: Wisconsin’s Renewable Portfolio Standards Are Too Costly
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A study released in July 2016 by the MacIver Institute for Public Policy argues Wisconsin’s renewable portfolio standards (RPS), first enacted in 1998 and requiring each electric utility in the Badger State to generate at least 10 percent of their output -
Research & Commentary: Net Metering Reform
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In 40 states and the District of Columbia, utility customers who generate their own energy – also called distributed generation, which occurs most often using rooftop solar panels – can sell any excess electricity they produce to a utility company for -
Research & Commentary: Offshore Hydraulic Fracturing in California
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have lifted a moratorium placed on hydraulic fracturing, also called “fracking,” off the coast of California and released a jointly prepared -
Research & Commentary: Higher State Support for Green Energy Increases Energy Costs for Consumers
Publication -Research and Commentaries -An analysis published in early May 2016 by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) has found a “statistically significant correlation … between high electricity bills and states with numerous policies supporting green energy. -
Research & Commentary: A Summary of the Impacts of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) Mining
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Isaac Orr, research fellow at The Heartland Institute, and Mark Krumenacher, senior principal and senior vice president of GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. -
Research & Commentary: Washington State Carbon Tax
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A ballot measure currently being considered by the Washington State Legislature could make the state the first in the nation to impose a direct tax on carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuels. -
Testimony of John R. Christy Addressing NOAA’s recent temperature claims
Publication -Testimony -This testimony by Dr. John R. Christy, delivered on February 2, 2016, before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, is a fascinating overview of the latest real science regarding climate change. Dr. -
Research & Commentary: Oregon Cap-and-Trade Proposals and Renewable Power Mandates
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Legislators in Oregon are now proposing a new carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program. The legislature rejected a proposed cap-and-trade plan in 2015. -
Research & Commentary: Idaho Lawmakers’ Doubts About the Climate ‘Consensus’
Publication -Research and Commentaries -On January 2, the Twin Falls Times-News released a highly deceptive story, “At Idaho Legislature, Many Doubt Scientific Consensus on Global Warming Cause,” containing many dubious assertions about the debate between scientists over the effects of climate -
Research & Commentary: COP21 and the Paris Climate Agreement
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The Paris climate agreement, adopted on December 12 by 195 nations attending the United Nations’ 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21), was called a “turning point for the world” by President Obama and “the best chance to save the one planet that we’ve -
Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming
Publication -Books -Rather than rely exclusively on United Nation’s IPCC for scientific advice, policymakers should seek out advice from independent, nongovernment organizations and scientists who are free of financial and political conflicts of interest. -
Top 10 Global Warming Lies
Publication -Policy Briefs -It's not unusual for the environmental Left to make false assertions to attract media attention and raise money. But a recent mailer from the Environmental Defense Fund “may have set a new low,” writes Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. -
Economic Impacts of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) Mining
Publication -Policy Studies -Second in a series#137 (May 2015) Environmental Impacs of Industrial Silica Sand (Frac Sand) MiningHydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production has dramatically increased the demand for industrial silica sand, known as “frac sand,” available -
Merchants of Smear
Publication -Policy Briefs -For about two decades we’ve been told the science behind human-caused global warming is settled, and to ignore skeptic scientists because they’ve been paid by industry to manufacture doubt about the issue. -
Statement to the Environment and Public Works Committee of the United States Senate
Publication -Testimony -On June 3, 2014, Climatologist David Legates testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the subject of climate change. -
Research & Commentary: The Myth of a Global Warming Consensus
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Many legislators are told they must enact climate change legislation because an alleged “scientific consensus” holds that man-made climate change requires urgent action. -
Research & Commentary: What the Australian Carbon Tax Means for the United States
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Anti-fossil-fuel activists have long advocated federal and state governments should impose carbon taxes. -
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts
Publication -Books -The newest volume in the Climate Change Reconsidered series, released on April 9, is Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts. One more volume in the CCR-II series, subtitled Human Welfare, Energy, and Policies, is due out in June. -
Research & Commentary: State Carbon Taxes
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Legislators in many states have blamed high-profile regional weather events on anthropogenic global warming and are proposing carbon taxes as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and thereby—they hope—to mitigate severe weather. -
Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Power
Publication -Policy Briefs -Global warming alarmism threatens U.S. national power and national security, say Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, Vice Admiral Edward S. Briggs, and Captain Donald K. Forbes. -
Testimony of James Taylor – Kansas House Standing Committee on Energy and Environment
Publication -Testimony -Senior Fellow James Taylor's written testimony submitted on February 13, 2014 to the Kansas House Energy & Environment committee on a resolution to oppose the Presiden't Climate Action Plan. -
The Other Side of the Global Warming Story
Publication -Testimony -Dr. Jay Lehr, science director of The Heartland Institute and one of the authors of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, delivered the testimony below to the Washington State Senate in January, 2014. -
AMS Survey Shows No Consensus on Global Warming
Publication -Policy Briefs -In a November 2013 Heartland Institute Policy Brief, Heartland President Joseph Bast examines an American Meteorological Survey of its members which found only 39.5% of those who responded say they believe man-made global warming is dangerous.