pennsylvania
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan – Crippling Costs for No Benefit
by Gregory Wrightstone May 7, 2019Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf released the latest version of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Climate Action Plan, announcing that Pennsylvania would join the U.S. Climate Alliance.
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Environment/Energy
Facts Rain on Pennsylvania Governor’s Climate-Change Parade
by Gregory Wrightstone December 17, 2018When Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf uses the past year’s wet weather and local flooding to support his assertion that “we have a problem with climate change,” we can’t help but rain on his parade.
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Pennsylvania legislators have the opportunity to do something remarkable for their kids: Give them a way out.
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Environment/Energy
Bottom-Up Cronyism – No Better Than Top-Down Cronyism
by Seton Motley June 30, 2017Government cutting special deals for special friends – is always obnoxious, obnoxiously bad policy.
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Environment/Energy
Fracking Helps Ignite Clinton’s Midwestern Firewall, Not Tap Water
by Isaac Orr December 16, 2016Hydraulic fracturing is often incorrectly blamed for contaminating water with methane and thus allowing people to set their tap water on fire, but one thing fracking did help set ablaze was Hillary Clinton’s so-called “Midwestern Firewall.”
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LibertyPoliticsRandom
American Colonies: Despite What You Learn In School, It Was Mostly Private Enterprise
by Rob Natelson December 7, 2016Too many of us who are enthusiastic about space exploration and colonization expect the federal government to lead the way. We should learn from the founding of British colonies in America.
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Budgets/TaxesInternet/Telecom
Lawmakers Should Get with the Program and Stop Taxing Digital Goods
by Justin Haskins September 11, 2016Last month, consumers in Pennsylvania got a nasty surprise when they opened their bills for streaming-media services, such as Netflix, thanks to Keystone State lawmakers’ obsession with tax-and-spend policies.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Elizabeth Stelle: How Fracking is Helping Pennsylvania Prosper
by H. Sterling Burnett July 25, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast we welcome on Elizabeth Stelle, Director of Policy Analysis for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives – a free-market think tank based out of Pennsylvania. Stelle comes on the show to talk about how Pennsylvania has prospered by allowing hydraulic fracturing.