Exxon
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Federal judge William Alsup recently dismissed a lawsuit by Oakland and San Francisco against oil companies for costs related to global warming. The decision is wise, regardless of whether global warming threatens humanity’s future.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
The Good, the Bad, and the Missed Opportunities of the ‘Climate Science Tutorial’ in San Francisco
by Joe Bast March 24, 2018Chevron left many false and misleading claims before the court, claims that contaminate the public debate on climate change and will continue to haunt the fossil fuel industry and threaten our energy freedom unless they are faced and debunked.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedMedia
Heartland Institute Responds to, Corrects Inside Climate News Story
by Joe Bast December 27, 2017Why did Inside Climate News run a piece littered with factual errors and relying on discredited sources? Maybe because Inside Climate News isn’t what its title says it is
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Ask President Trump to renounce climate alarmism now!
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Politics
Fighting Liar With Fire: NY Attorney General Schneiderman Gets Successfully Sued
by Seton Motley April 12, 2017New York Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is the hackiest of hacks. A Leftist ideologue to the point of derangement – and complete dereliction of his actual duty.
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FeaturedLibertyPoliticsSpeaker Series
Heartland Event: Assaults on Free Speech and the Future of Liberty
by Nancy Thorner March 11, 2017A defense must be mounted against what happened at Berkeley, and what is also taking place on other college campuses. The act of speaking is not “violence.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
What’s Up With Prices at the Pump and Why it Could Be a Good Sign
by Marita Noon May 2, 2016All of us loved paying less than $2 a gallon at the pump. AAA reports: “Americans paid cheapest quarterly gas prices in 12 years”—which resulted in savings of nearly $10 billion compared to the same period last year. However, oil (and, therefore gasoline) has been creeping upward since the February low—topping $45 a barrel, a high for the year. And that could be a good thing.
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In 2009, there was a massive email leak from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Supporters of global warming claimed the disclosures were out of context while opponents claimed they showed efforts to manipulate data. One of the quoted emails, Professor Phil Jones, while discussing paleo-data used to reconstruct past temperatures, says, “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” (Emphasis added.) The House of Commons investigated and concluded, “insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty—for example, Professor Jones’s alleged attempt to ‘hide the decline’—we consider that there is no case to answer.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
New York’s Absurd Martin Act and the Investigation into Exxon Mobil
by Timothy Benson January 11, 2016New York Attorney General (AG) Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation into Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest energy company, and subpoenaed all company documents related to climate change research since 1977. His office says it’s an effort to find out whether executives “lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business.” This follows on the heels of calls from 50 environmental groups, both major Democratic candidates for the presidency, and Democratic members of Congress for a federal probe into the firm.