Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
In today’s edition of the Heartland Daily podcast, Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News H. Sterling Burnett talks with John Eick. Eick is the Director of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force.
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Government
They , whoever they is, say you’ve got to take the good with the bad. In my opinion, most laws are almost all bad despite the often good intentions of[…]
The 2014 US-Africa Leaders Summit hosted by President Obama this past week brought together the largest-ever gathering of African government officials in Washington, DC. They discussed ways to bolster trade and investment by American companies on a continent where a billion people – including 200 million aged 15 to 24 – are becoming wealthier and better educated.
My last couple of posts have dealt with major weather/climate stories I think are lurking. The worry about the upcoming hurricane season is something I will have every year for[…]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation · Science
The fact is this: humans have been genetically modifying plants and animals for millennia. Just because it was done more incrementally, and out in the field instead of in a laboratory, does not make it any less of a modification. The scientific method as applied to crop-rearing offers the same boons it has to all natural sciences, namely made it more rigorous and more conducive to human progress.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast · Science
The annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) started today in Chicago and runs through February 17. In addition to reinforcing the public’s widely held[…]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
Literally thousands of scientific studies have produced findings that run counter to Barack Obama’s view of future climate.
Our government has lied to Americans about the global warming, and the result has been the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars on something that was not happening and is not happening.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast · Regulation · Science
Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr was a guest on Brownfield News Radio, after delivering a speech at the Iowa Farm Bureau annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa.
Featured · Government · Random · Regulation
America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century tells the story of our nation’s government as crushingly expensive, one that is failing at its basic functions and unable to keep its promises. Such an unworkable and out-of-control government cannot continue as the status quo.
The term “Greater New York” was applied, unofficially, to the 1898 consolidation that produced the present city of New York, which brought together the present five boroughs (counties). When consolidated, much of the city of New York was agricultural. As time went on, the term “Greater” came to apply to virtually any large city and its environs, not just New York. By 2010, Greater New York had expanded to somewhere between 19 million and 23 million residents, depending on the definition.
The year 2013 has been a great year for global agriculture. Record world production of rice and healthy production of wheat and corn produced strong harvests across the world. These gains were achieved despite continuing predictions that world agricultural output is headed for a decline.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Science
Here at The Heartland Institute, we looked under the hood at the science touted by the other side and found it to be utterly unpersuasive.
Is buying organic a giant scam?
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
“[T]he GM debate is over. It is finished. We no longer need to discuss whether or not it is safe. … You are more likely to get hit by an asteroid than to get hurt by GM food.” So said Mark Lynas, the British environmentalist, who helped launch the anti-GMO movement in the 1990s.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
I challenge The Cornucopia Institute’s Mark Kastel to a debate on organic food — in a public forum, with a neutral moderator, and with equal time for both sides.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
When it comes to the Farm Bill, we’ve been doing what hurts for fifty-plus years. Let’s not do that anymore.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are bolstering plant life throughout the world, environmental scientists report in a newly published peer-reviewed study.
Environment/Energy · Podcast · Science
Jay Lehr on WIBW: “To think that man is more powerful than nature is ludicrous.”
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlation with global temperature.
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