lawsuits
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A literacy lawsuit is due to go to trial in October, but little will change if it is successful.
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On January 10, the city of New York filed suit against BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Heartland on the Air: H. Sterling Burnett on An Economy of One
by Billy Aouste October 25, 2017Last Tuesday, Research Fellow H. Sterling Burnett was a guest on the nationally syndicated radio program An Economy of One broadcast on Radio America Network.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyLegal Affairs
Trump’s Paris Pull Out Dodges UN Driven Legal Bullet
by H. Sterling Burnett June 11, 2017By withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, President Donald Trump may have avoided myriad legal efforts to force the administration to restrict fossil fuel development and use in the United States.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Heartland Daily Podcast – H. Sterling Burnett: Global Warming Thought Crimes
by Isaac Orr April 20, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, H. Sterling Burnett, Research Fellow and Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News, joins Host Isaac Orr to talk about the legal efforts by the Obama administration via Attorney General Loretta Lynch and several democratic state AG’s to prosecute companies, researchers and think tanks under RICO for disagreeing with them on climate science and policy.
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If you want more of something, mandate it, subsidize it and exempt it from regulations. If you want less of something, punish it with taxes and regulations. Put more bluntly, the power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy. This is the First Rule of Government.