wildlife
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyGovernment
A Pennsylvania Commission Banned Wind Energy. Here’s Why
by Gregory Wrightstone May 26, 2018This month, the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) voted unanimously to ban wind turbines on the 1.5 million acres it controls.
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Environment/Energy
Frog Case Highlights Dangers of and Need to Reform the Endangered Species Act
by H. Sterling Burnett January 12, 2018Various people and groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of and ultimately to overturn an appellate court decision concerning the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the dusky gopher frog.
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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/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Shawn Regan: Western Lands and Government Ownership
by H. Sterling Burnett February 2, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Shawn Regan, Director of Publications and research fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) joins H. Sterling Burnett to talk about his paper “Managing Conflicts over Western Rangelands.”