Managing Editor, Environment & Climate News at The Heartland Institute
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is managing editor of Environment & Climate News and a research fellow for environment and energy policy at The Heartland Institute. Burnett worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, most recently as a senior fellow in charge of NCPA’s environmental policy program. He has held various positions in professional and public policy organizations, including serving as a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission.
Latest posts by H. Sterling Burnett (see all)
- Separating Fact From Fiction About Wildfires - September 11, 2020
- Biden’s Climate Plan Would Put America on the Road to Serfdom - August 25, 2020
- Doomed Climate Lawsuits Waste Precious Time and Money - February 12, 2020
In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Joshua Sewell, senior policy analyst with Taxpayers for Common Sense joins the show to discuss agriculture policy and crop insurance.
Sewell explores the high costs related to crop insurance and other farm programs showing how taxpayers foot the bill for a program that could be provided more effectively through the free market. Most people don’t know, but taxpayers insure farmers not just against crop losses due to disaster but also against below expected crop prices.
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