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Heartland Weekly: A Conversation with Mark Janus
Opinion -Editorial -Week of July 30, 2018 -
Global Warming is Not People’s Most Pressing Concern
Opinion -Editorial -Most people don’t really care, don’t think it affects them much, and don’t believe the hype. -
Sportsmen Benefit from Interior Sec. Zinke’s Leadership
Opinion -Editorial -The Department of the Interior (DOI), under the leadership of Secretary Ryan Zinke, has reversed Obama administration policies that hindered state wildlife management, harming hunters and anglers in the process. -
House Appropriators Reject Trump’s EPA, Interior Budget Cut Requests
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The House Appropriations Committee’s draft bill to fund the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for fiscal year 2019 provides substantially more funding than President Donald Trump requested. -
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Moving Forward Despite Litigation
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The energy company building a 600 mile natural gas pipeline stretching from West Virginia to North Carolina said a federal appeals court panel’s decision to invalidate a key environmental permit will not halt construction. -
Wyoming To Allow Limited Grizzly Bear Hunt
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Wyoming announced it would hold the first grizzly bear hunt in the lower 48 states in more than 40 years in and around Yellowstone National Park. -
FWS Must Do More to Protect Mexican Gray Wolves, Court Says
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A Federal judge in Arizona has ruled wildlife managers from the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed do enough to protect a subspecies of wolf native to the American Southwest. -
Hunters Represented on International Wildlife Conservation Council
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Representatives from a number of pro-hunting conservation organizations are included in the membership of the International Wildlife Conservation Council , established by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in November 2017. -
Department of Interior Will Allow Elephant Trophy Imports
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed a ban on the importation of animal parts or trophies from sport-hunted African elephants and lions from select countries. -
New Minnesota Organization Protects Property Rights, Fights Wind Farms
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A group of Minnesota landowners banded together in 2017 to form Wind Locked, LLC, a conservation holding company established to support landowners’ efforts to block wind turbine construction near agricultural and rural lands. -
Clever Propaganda Masquerading as Teacher’s Guide Should Stay Out of Classroom
Opinion -school-reform-news -Review of The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change, by Ingrid H. H. Zabel, Don Duggan-Haas, and Robert M. Ross -
First Year Energy and Environment Accomplishments of the Trump Administration
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #274 -
Environmental Policy Wishes for the New Year
Opinion -Editorial -New Year’s is a time for resolutions concerning personal changes one would like to make in one’s life. -
Reducing Antiquities Act Land Grabs
Opinion -Editorial -Acting on recommendations by Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, on December 4 President Trump significantly reduced the size of two enormous areas in Utah that Presidents Clinton and Obama had set aside under the 1906 Antiquities Act. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland Institute Experts React to FCC Repeal of Net Neutrality
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed its 2015 “net neutrality” rule. -
Federal Court Rules for Ranchers, Against Forest Service in Property Rights Case
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal court upheld the right of a New Mexico family of ranchers to access water on federal lands, determining the right dated back to the Territory of New Mexico. -
Heartland Weekly: Why Democrats Lose on Global Warming
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Democrats might be zealous about the climate debate, but they have no weight behind their punch. -
Trump Administration Rejects Funding for California Water Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump’s administration has decided against funding the Delta tunnels water project in California. -
The Obama EPA’s Crooked Prosecutors
Opinion -Editorial -The agency’s carbon dioxide climate “endangerment finding” was a kangaroo court process. -
Congress Considers Water-Rights Protection Bill
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Rep. Scott Tipton reintroduced the Water Rights Protection Act to uphold state water laws and water-rights assignments against federal regulatory agencies’ attempts to reduce property owners’ water rights. -
Monumental, Unsustainable Environmental Impacts
Opinion -Editorial -Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage. -
MIT President’s Letter Repeats Standard Climate Alarm Claims. Here Are The Facts.
Opinion -News -A recent letter by prominent scientists to the MIT President Rafael Reif. -
Climate Alarmists: Abort Your ‘Extra’ Children
Opinion -Editorial -In his new Netflix series, "Bill Nye Saves the World," the show’s eponymous host asked a group of panelists, including one of the Georgetown professors, “Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?” -
ICCC-12 Speakers Defend Use of Fossil Fuels
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Speakers on the “Fossil Fuels and the Environment” panel at The Heartland Institute’s 12th International Conference on Climate Change said fossil fuels make modern society possible, improving wealth, health, and the environment.