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Land and Water Conservation Fund Expires, Battle for Reform Continues
Opinion -At midnight on October 1, for the first time since it was established in 1965, Congress allowed the authorization to lapse for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). -
Rolling Back the Tide of Big Government Overreach
Opinion -The reason most often cited for the success of the nonpolitical candidates is the frustration with Washington; the sense that the system is broken. Voters feel that we have no control and that government has gone wild. -
Federal Judge Strikes Down Prairie Chicken Designation
Opinion -Judge Robert Junell of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas struck down a federal protection for the lesser prairie chicken (LPC), a species found in southern Great Plains states. -
Taming the Federal Beast, One Little Cut at a Time
Opinion -Like the Hekatonkheires of Greek mythology, a creature with 100 hands and 50 heads, our national government has thousands of eyes spying everywhere and its hands in everyone’s pockets, intensively regulating our businesses, properties, and personal lives. -
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Pernicious Egalitarianism Shrinks 8th Grade Algebra Programs
Opinion -The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) decided recently to eliminate first-year algebra for 8th graders. Algebra will now be offered only in high school. -
Lawsuit Forces Payback for Green Defamation of Property Owner
Opinion -In December 1993 several environmental radicals, led by a young man named Kieran Suckling, gathered in New Mexico and incorporated the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity. -
Feds Going Cuckoo for Unthreatened Birds
Opinion -Stop me if you've heard this one before. -
The Green Mirage – and Con Job
Opinion -Musk, Schmidt, Simons and billionaire buddies build empire based on climate and energy BSEditor's note: co-authored by Paul Driessen and Tom TamarkinElon Musk and his fellow barons of Climate Crisis, Inc. recently got a huge boost from Pope Francis. -
New Sage Grouse Rules Limit Public Land Use
Opinion -The Obama administration is establishing new to limits on public land uses in 10 Western states to protect the habitat of the ground dwelling greater sage grouse. -
Shell Clears First Regulatory Hurdle to Drill in the Arctic
Opinion -The Obama administration gave conditional approval for Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. to resume efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean. -
What Will America Look Like if the Environmentalists Win?
Opinion -In every war, there are winners and losers. Whether the war is ideological or physical, or even if a truce is declared—there are still battles that end in victory or defeat. -
Research & Commentary: North Dakota Federal Environmental Law Impact Review Fund
Publication -Research and Commentaries -The North Dakota House of Representatives has passed a new law to form a committee to review federal legislation and agency regulations that detrimentally impact, or have the potential to detrimentally impact, the state’s agricultural, coal, and/or oil -
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The Leaflet: State Lawmakers Continue to Fight Obamacare
Publication -The Leaflet -State Lawmakers Continue to Fight Obamacare In state capitols around the nation, lawmakers are still debating legislation addressing Obamacare. -
Nevada Counties, Ranchers, and Miners Challenge Sage Grouse Settlement
Opinion -Nevada counties, along with mining and ranching groups, sued the Obama administration, challenging a 2011 settlement between the U.S. -
Heartland’s Policy Priorities for 2015
Publication -The Leaflet -Heartland’s Policy Priorities for 2015 With the start of the new year most state lawmakers are heading back to their state capitols to tackle many important issues. -
States Required to Address Sage Grouse Decline
Opinion -Eleven western states face a deadline to show the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service local efforts to protect the greater sage grouse have been effective and federal intervention is unwarranted. -
The Leaflet: Coming Soon: The Heartland Institute’s Updated Welfare Reform Report Card
Publication -The Leaflet -Coming Soon: The Heartland Institute’s Updated Welfare Reform Report CardOn Tuesday, September 23 The Wall Street Journal published a column titled “A Republican War on Poverty” by Heartland Senior Fellow Gary MacDougal, author of Make a Difference: A -
U.S. Government Releases Predators Against its Own People
Opinion -Many times the sound of howling and yelping coyotes awake me from a sound and cozy slumber. I sit bolt upright in my bed as my sleep-filled brain tries to calculate where my critters are and whether or not they are safe. -
Killing marine life with ethanol
Opinion -Ethanol damages your cars, small engines, food budget – and kills Gulf of Mexico animals Paul Driessen Ethanol and other biofuel mandates and subsidies got started when politicians bought into claims that we are rapidly depleting our petroleum, and -
Message to EPA—“You Have Done Enough” Let Them Know Your Thoughts
Opinion -For years the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been issuing onerous rules applying to the use of fossil fuels that has caused increases in energy prices and contributed to the economic malaise that has befallen the country since the end of the -
Kansas Pushes Back Against Federal Prairie Chicken Restrictions
Opinion -Kansas public officials are pushing back against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service environmental restrictions regarding prairie chickens. -
Supreme Court to Obama Administration: Congress Writes Laws, You Don’t!
Opinion -Now that the dust has settled on the Supreme Court’s 2014 session, we can look at the decisions and conclude that the Administration received a serious smack down.
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