Research & Commentary - Environment
James Taylor - October 27, 2009
Forcing nationwide cuts in carbon dioxide emissions offers only speculative environmental benefits, if any, as a switch to wind and solar power will certainly ... (read more)
Peter Fotos - October 08, 2009
The Obama administration, with support from the majority party in Congress, is promoting a carbon emissions cap-and-trade plan that could spell disaster ... (read more)
Zonia Pino - August 21, 2009
Even with one of the worst state economies in the nation, the California Assembly rejected a proposal to allow new oil drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara. ... (read more)
Zonia M. Pino - June 30, 2009
The American Clean Energy Security Act--better known as "Waxman-Markey"--has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and is pending ... (read more)
Matthew Glans - June 30, 2009
Government planners have coined the term "smart growth" to justify a litany of intrusions into the economic planning of our communities. Billions ... (read more)
Zonia M. Pino - March 27, 2009
The Obama administration, with overwhelming support from the majority party in Congress, is promoting a carbon emissions cap-and-trade plan that could spell ... (read more)
Zonia Pino - December 22, 2008
Pennsylvania, among other states, is mulling programs that would establish a carbon dioxide cap-and-trade system for the purpose of reducing carbon dioxide ... (read more)
December 09, 2008
This collection of eight articles and reports on Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” was assembled for parents, taxpayers, teachers, ... (read more)
December 09, 2008
This Research & Commentary collection contains three articles that provide scientific critiques of the global warming alarmism that appears in Al Gore’s ... (read more)
Zonia M. Pino - June 01, 2008
British academic Nicholas Stern will testify on Thursday, June 26 before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington. The former World Bank staffer ... (read more)
Brian Costin - May 05, 2008
Environmentalists in recent years have enthusiastically hailed ethanol fuel as a central element in combating what they perceive as a global warming crisis ... (read more)
Brian Costin - April 04, 2008
As the scientific community becomes increasingly skeptical of claims that global warming is manmade and portends a crisis, government calls for carbon dioxide ... (read more)
Heartland Staff - October 03, 2007
Kermit the Frog said “it’s not easy being green.” But Kermit didn’t know how easy it would be to appear green.
In the name of appearing ... (read more)
The Heartland Institute - June 28, 2007
This summer, gasoline prices continue to climb- in some areas, to nearly $4 per gallon. As some lawmakers and the media accuse oil companies of price-gouging ... (read more)
prepared by The Heartland Institute - March 29, 2007
Some environmental groups champion the Great Lakes Compact as an important way to protect water resources in the region. However, they overlook the compact’s ... (read more)
compiled by Trevor Martin - March 14, 2007
Global warming is a complex and important issue. While some ideologically driven environmental groups and their allies in the media declare the debate is ... (read more)
Heartland Institute staff - July 26, 2006
States are working on State Implementation Plans (SIPs) to meet air quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air ... (read more)
Joseph L. Bast - March 01, 2000
1. What Is Chlorine?
Chlorine is an element found in abundance in the natural world. It is one of 118 elements that comprise the matter that makes ... (read more)
WHAT'S NEWMichael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus - November 16, 2009
America is more polarized today than at any time since Reconstruction. A major quantitative analysis by social ... (read more)
James Taylor - November 18, 2009
The lead bureaucrat for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is calling scientists at the India Ministry of Environment and Forests ... (read more)
Dan Miller - November 18, 2009
In a grim display of ham-handed censorship in the scientific debate over the causes and severity of global warming, the American Geophysical Union has canceled ... (read more)
Jeff Davis - November 18, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS, November 18, 2009 -- Reader's Digest has responded to a boycott initiated by www.NoCapAndTrade.com by having its name removed from a list of ... (read more)
Christine Hall - November 16, 2009
Washington, D.C., November 16, 2009--For years, Al Gore has steadfastly refused to debate the global warming issue. Most recently, he ignored a put-up-or-shut-up ... (read more)
Noelle Straub - October 20, 2009
Over the next century, global warming could boost forest growth in the Pacific Northwest, a new study has found.Warming temperatures could lead to a significant ... (read more)
Willie Soon and David R. Legates - November 13, 2009
Four centuries ago, “heretics” who disagreed with religious orthodoxy risked being burned at the stake. Many were the dissenting views that ... (read more)
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. - November 10, 2009
Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally ... (read more)
Souleymane Fall et al - August 24, 2009
We investigate the sensitivity of surface temperature trends to land use land cover change (LULC) over theconterminous United States (CONUS) using the observation ... (read more)
Lawrence Soloman - November 06, 2009
Politicians the world over claim that 4,000 scientists believe in global warming. Depends on who’s counting In a speech yesterday, Australia’s ... (read more)
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