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Research & Commentary: Michigan Renewable Portfolio Standard Repeal
Publication -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. -
Heartland Institute Climate Experts Comment on 18 Straight Years of No Global Warming
Opinion -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. -
Energy and Earthquakes in Ohio
Opinion -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. -
Welcome to the “No Pee” Section of the Swimming Pool
Opinion -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. -
America’s Power Grid at the Limit: The Road to Electrical Blackouts
Opinion -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. -
US Electricity System in Regulatory and Terrorist Crosshairs
Opinion -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. -
Nebraska Sues EPA over Power Plant CO2 Restrictions
Opinion -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. -
The Inventor of the Global Warming Hockey Stick Doubles Down
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. -
Supreme Court Will Hear Case on EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Opinion -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
Opinion -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. -
The EPA’s War on America
Opinion -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
Opinion -Duke Energy’s “green” initiative to gasify coal for allegedly “cleaner” burning at its Edwardsport, Ind. -
National Research Council: Hydraulic Fracturing Poses Low Risk of Earthquakes
Opinion -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. -
EPA’s Coal Decision Creates Vulnerability
Opinion -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. -
Heartland Institute Responds to EPA Emissions Rule
Opinion -Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S. -
New Temperature Study Misses the Point
Opinion -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
Opinion -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. -
French Academy Lays a Warming Egg
Opinion -The august French Academy has spoken: After a cursory examination of the issue, a single day of selected testimonies, and some internal discussion among admitted non-experts, their Oct. 28 report concluded global warming is “real and anthropogenic. -
Chu Touts Clean Coal to West Virginians
Opinion -Coal will remain an important part of the U.S. energy mix, and clean coal technologies will “save coal” under global warming carbon dioxide restrictions, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told a community forum in Charleston, West Virginia. -
Global Warming Bills Hold Unpleasant Secrets
Opinion -There are a few things the supporters of the House and Senate climate bills apparently do not want you to know. Consider the following.Property Rights DeniedSection 721 of both bills denies property right status to tradable allowances and offset credits. -
Climate Bill Secrets
Opinion -There are a few things the supporters of the House and Senate climate bills apparently do not want you to know. Consider the following. Section 721 of both bills denies property right status to tradable allowances and offset credits. -
Oil and Gas Industry Investing in Emissions Reductions
Opinion -The U.S. oil and gas industry has contributed nearly half of all dollars invested by the nation’s public and private sectors this decade in low-emissions energy technologies. -
Why Pennsylvania’s Sen. Casey Is Wrong on Cap-and-Trade
Opinion -Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) wrote the following letter to a constituent attempting to justify his support for cap-and-trade legislation similar to a bill that recently was passed by the House. -
EPA Should Let the People Speak
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from about 1.2 million new or expanded structures--up from the few thousand buildings it regulates now.
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