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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
Water Vapor vs. CO2 as a Climate Control Knob
by Joe Bastardi May 13, 2021One would have to disregard these principles to accept blindly the introduction of more Co2 to the system now is the prime control of the system.
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ConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
Sorry, Still Not for Sale
by Greg Walcher January 26, 2021Why is the New York Times writing about Colorado water? Because Wall Street investors plan to get rich by rerouting it.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Data Indicate There’s No Need to Panic About Rising Seas
by H. Sterling Burnett July 15, 2019Ending the use of fossil fuels, and giving ever larger government increasing power over peoples’ lives will not stop seas from rising, but instead will only serve to make the world’s people poorer and less free.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
LaCroix Cartels Are Unlikely, But Be Mindful of How Regulations Affect Incentives
by Art Carden June 26, 2019Consumer Reports recently discovered that LaCroix’s parent company, National Beverage Corps, doesn’t have the permits required to sell LaCroix in Massachusetts.
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Earth is a blue watery planet.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentLibertyPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep104) – Trump’s Tax Reform Plan, Accusations of Price Gouging, and Stadium Subsidies
by Donald Kendal September 1, 2017In John’s absence, Donny Kendal is joined by Research Fellow for Budget and Tax, Jesse Hathaway, in episode #104 of the In The Tank Podcast.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Agricultural Innovations Show the Way to Adapt to a Warmer World
by H. Sterling Burnett November 13, 2016Recently two stories detailing agricultural innovations caught my eye. They intrigued me because they show, even if I’m wrong about the cause and possible consequences of climate change, people around the globe are discovering innovative ways to adapt to future climate changes regardless of the cause and the type of change.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Roberta Walls: Sand Mining Poses Little Threat to Air and Water Quality
by Isaac Orr August 2, 2016In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, research fellow Isaac Orr and Roberta Walls, the point person for industrial sand mining at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, discuss a new document produced by the DNR to educate the general public and decision makers about the environmental, economic, and social impacts of industrial sand mining in the state.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
University Researchers Put Fracking Politics Before Science
by Jeff Stier April 27, 2016Why would a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program deliberately hide its work? Because, as lead researcher Amy Townsend-Small explained, “our funders, the groups that had given us funding in the past, were a little disappointed in our results. They feel that fracking is scary and so they were hoping our data could point to a reason to ban it.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Bogus EPA is Causing Everyone Real Problems
by Seton Motley April 8, 2016Flint Was Not the First: A Look at the History of the EPA & Why We Should Have Predicted Flint: “(Virginia Tech professor Marc) Edwards…opened the case much wider, referring to disasters from nearly a decade ago in which the EPA engaged in willful negligence. He pointed specifically to the crisis in Washington, D.C. in 2004 in which the water conditions were drastically worse than that in Flint.
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Environmental issues were discussed in detail at a recent Democratic debate, held in in Flint Michigan on March 6. Sadly, when asked whether the candidates support hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” a technique that has greatly increased oil and natural gas production in the United States, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) showed they are both fracking clueless.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jackie Stewart: No, Fracking is not Contaminating Water Supplies
by Isaac Orr March 10, 2016In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, research fellow Isaac Orr and Jackie Stewart, from Energy in Depth discuss a recent study conducted by the University of Cincinnati which found fracking has not contaminated water supplies. But here’s a twist, the study was actually funded by environmental groups who are not pleased with the results.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The EPA Isn’t Handling Its Business – But Insists On Man-Handling Ours
by Seton Motley February 18, 2016The Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution – were by 1800 thoroughly implementing it. If they didn’t yet have the federal government doing something – the federal government wasn’t to be doing it. So unless a subsequent amendment added an authority to the federal panoply – it’s been an unConstitutional addition.