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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Advice to Bill McKibben: Nuke Up or Shut Up
by Isaac Orr February 16, 2017Energy and climate realists must hold alarmists like McKibben to their own standards. If the alarmists want to be taken seriously, they must nuke up or shut up.
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The EPA just threw out five years of fracking safety research to appease green extremists.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyGovernment
The EPA Shows Again That It’s an Affront to Common Sense
by Jeff Stier November 28, 2016For decades, in administrations Democratic and Republican alike, the Environmental Protection Agency has been a paragon of waste, fraud, and abuse, a corrupt taxpayer-funded Evil Empire.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Now Comes the Hard, Fun and Vital Part
by Paul Driessen November 20, 2016“Making America great again” requires deep-sixing punitive energy and environmental rules.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep53): Welfare Reform and Poverty, Carbon Taxes, and the Aetna Exodus
by Donald Kendal August 26, 2016John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #53 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Manhattan Institute, the Ethan Allen Institute, and the Pacific Research Institute.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
There Is No Good Time for a Carbon Tax
by H. Sterling Burnett July 22, 2016June 10, 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution sponsored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) saying a carbon tax would harm the economy and should not be enacted. The 237–163 vote in favor of the resolution included only six Democrats, who joined the entire Republican caucus.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Why Waste Food to Replace Something We Already Have Too Much Of?
by Marita Noon May 23, 2016The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—also known as the ethanol mandate—was passed by Congress in 2005 and expanded in 2007. Regardless of market conditions, it required ever-increasing quantities of biofuel be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply—though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does have the flexibility to make some adjustments based on conditions, such as availability and infrastructure.
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The greenhouse regulators approve burning trees and plant trash in power stations because that recycles the life-supporting natural gases – water vapour and carbon dioxide.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Tax Cuts to Cut Carbon, an Idea Whose Time has Yet to Come
by H. Sterling Burnett February 2, 2016Some on the political right are floating a new “supply-side” idea for reducing carbon dioxide emissions without creating more market distortions: clean tax cuts. Proponents of the cuts want to reduce or end all taxes on investments in technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Your Burger Is Killing the Planet, Say the Climatarians
by Jeff Stier January 20, 2016Climate activists are ratcheting up their attempt to blame global warming on food production and consumption, targeting the meat industry in particular. As the public tunes out stale climate-change rhetoric, climatarians hope to turn attention away from your SUV and onto your dinner plate.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Why Should Volkswagen be Investigated for Emission Deception, but Not Government Agencies?
by Paul Driessen January 11, 2016The heat is on! Not the unusual winter warmth in much of the United States – but the unrelenting heat generated by propaganda and pressure campaigns that the White House, EPA, Big Green and news media are unleashing in the wake of the Paris climate agreement … and as a prelude to the 2016 elections.