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Taxpayers Are Being Ripped Off By New ‘Green Energy’ Project
Opinion -Editorial -On Nov. 6, Virginia’s State Corporation Commission approved a project to construct wind turbines near Virginia Beach. The plan calls for construction of turbines 27 miles off the coast, to begin operation by the end of 2020. -
‘America First Energy Conference’ Highlights Gains, Remaining Work
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Heartland Institute hosted its second America First Energy Conference at which more than 40 speakers from government and the private sector discussed energy and environment regulatory reforms necessary to advance U.S. energy dominance. -
Environmentalist Scare Stories – Never Mind!
Opinion -Editorial -Solid evidence shows there is no “bee-pocalypse,” but alarmists allege new pesticide threats. -
A Pennsylvania Commission Banned Wind Energy. Here’s Why
Opinion -Editorial -This month, the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) voted unanimously to ban wind turbines on the 1.5 million acres it controls. -
Homeland Security Dept. Waives Environmental Rules for Border Wall
Opinion -environment-climate-news -To speed up construction of President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is waiving more than 30 environmental rules for a segment of the wall in New Mexico. -
A Highly Readable Discussion of Water Issues
Opinion -environment-climate-news -High and Dry is an outstanding compilation of hydrology and groundwater issues, along with precise explanations of technological advances. -
Michelle Obama And Chef Tom Colicchio Form A Misguided Partnership
Opinion -Editorial -Just when many of us hoped that we would soon be seeing the last of the Obamas, it appears that Michelle Obama will still be involved in what passes for public service in progressives' parallel universe. -
Trump’s Energy Policy: 10 Big Changes
Opinion -Editorial -President-elect Donald Trump intends to hit the ground running on energy and environment policy. -
Feral Cat Feces Killing Wildlife in Hawaii
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Federal researchers say the cat feces carries a disease decimating endangered Hawaiian monk seal populations. -
Greenpeace Under Fire
Opinion -Governments and courts around the world are finally cracking down on the eco-terrorist organization Greenpeace. The crackdown, which is long overdue, couldn’t happen to a more misguided bunch of people. -
Canadian Forest Company Seeks Millions from Greenpeace in U.S. Courts
Opinion -On May 31, 2016, Resolute Forest Products (RPS) sued environmental group Greenpeace in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. -
Private Conservation Spotlight: The Roney Land and Cattle Company, Inc.
Opinion -The Vina Plains constitute one of the most unique landscapes in California's Sacramento Valley. Covering some 150 square miles northeast of Chico, the land has an austere, yet compelling, beauty. -
Courts Rein In Obama’s Regulatory Overreach
Opinion -The surest evidence that President Barack Obama's environmental policies have gone too far comes from the federal courts, which in the past five months have struck down or limited several of his executive orders and regulations. -
The EPA Assaults the Private Sector – and the Environment
Opinion -There are few things more dangerous to private enterprise than government bureaucrats with time on their hands. And since most bureaucrats have no legitimate reason for being – they have lots and lots of time on their hands. -
President Proposes Charging Ranchers More for Grazing
Opinion -Moving more money from private hands to the government, the Obama administration is proposing budget increases for the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management for fiscal year 2016 and has increased grazing fees for 2015. -
Congress Proposes Relaxing Sea Lion Protections
Opinion -The Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, a proposed amendment to the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act, could soon give tribal members and government fishery managers in the Columbia River Basin authority to kill sea lions -
U.N. Climate Chief Resigns amid Sex Scandal
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -U.N. Climate Chief Resigns amid Sex Scandal Climate Change Weekly #161 Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations’ influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has resigned in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. -
Cromnibus Environmental Provisions Stymie Obama Environmental Efforts
Opinion -The 1,600-page “Cromnibus” —a blend of "omnibus" and "CR," short for "continuing resolution"— spending bill passed the lame duck Congress in mid-December and was signed into law by President Barack Obama just before Christmas. -
Hot 2014 Doesn’t Prove Manmade Global Warming Hysteria Right
Opinion -The data may show Earth experienced its hottest year on record in 2014, but that would not be proof humans are causing global warming. It wouldn’t even prove the year was the hottest on record, or even particularly hot. -
Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Congress’ Omnibus Spending Bill
Opinion -The House and Senate this week are expected to pass a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September 2015. -
Desperate Wildlife Extinction Claims are Part of the Warming Hoax
Opinion -One thing that those of us who have been longtime observers and debunkers of the lies surrounding global warming and/or climate change have noticed is that the “Warmists” have gotten increasingly desperate after more than eighteen years in which there -
Industrial Wind Farm Kills Bats While Feds Ignore Problem
Opinion -A Nevada wind farm has killed triple the number of bats allowed under an agreement with federal wildlife officials, yet the federal government has imposed no significant penalties. -
Renewable Energy Death Toll Impugns Green Claims
Opinion -Renewable energy sources are killers, not so much green as red. Until recently, renewable energy sources—wind, solar, hydro, etc.—have gotten a pass on the environmental harms they cause. -
Global Warming’s Mt. Rushmore Wisely Embraces Nuclear Power
Opinion -Four scientists at the forefront of global warming activism published an open letter this week encouraging their fellow warmists to embrace safe nuclear power as a means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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