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January 17, 2020
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to Children’s Climate Lawsuit Thrown Out by 9th Circuit
“Just like the recent case against Exxon-Mobil in New York that was dismissed, this case by ‘climate concerned children’ was prompted and powered by climate activist interests.” - Anthony Watts
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Environment
January 17, 2020
NASA/NOAA Report Ignores Best Climate Data
Climate Change Weekly #347
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Energy
January 17, 2020
California Energy Policies are Fueling the Housing Crisis and Homelessness
California’s green crusade direction and actions are increasing the costs of electricity and fuels which guarantees growth of the homeless, poverty, and welfare populations, and further fuels the housing affordability crisis.
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January 17, 2020
Wisconsin Bans Violent Pipeline and Energy Infrastructure Protests
Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin signed into law a bipartisan proposal to make it a state felony to trespass on or damage oil or gas pipelines or chemical, renewable fuel, or water infrastructure.
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Regulation
January 16, 2020
States Struggle to Control Legal Marijuana Markets
Legal marijuana continues to compete with its black-market cousin because of the time needed to establish a legitimate marketplace and the taxes on legal marijuana.
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Regulation
January 16, 2020
Michigan Court Halts Governor’s Ban on Flavored E-Cigs, Vapes
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to issue emergency rules banning online and retail sales of flavored e-cigarettes, in response to reports of an increase in vaping-related lung diseases.
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January 17, 2020
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to Children’s Climate Lawsuit Thrown Out by 9th Circuit
By Anthony Watts, James Taylor, H. Sterling Burnett
“Just like the recent case against Exxon-Mobil in New York that was dismissed, this case by ‘climate concerned children’ was prompted and powered by climate activist interests.” - Anthony Watts
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January 17, 2020
NASA/NOAA Report Ignores Best Climate Data
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #347
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January 17, 2020
California Energy Policies are Fueling the Housing Crisis and Homelessness
By Ronald Stein, P.E.
California’s green crusade direction and actions are increasing the costs of electricity and fuels which guarantees growth of the homeless, poverty, and welfare populations, and further fuels the housing affordability crisis.
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January 17, 2020
Wisconsin Bans Violent Pipeline and Energy Infrastructure Protests
By Duggan Flanakin
Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin signed into law a bipartisan proposal to make it a state felony to trespass on or damage oil or gas pipelines or chemical, renewable fuel, or water infrastructure.
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January 16, 2020
States Struggle to Control Legal Marijuana Markets
By Brandon Best
Legal marijuana continues to compete with its black-market cousin because of the time needed to establish a legitimate marketplace and the taxes on legal marijuana.
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January 16, 2020
Michigan Court Halts Governor’s Ban on Flavored E-Cigs, Vapes
By Lindsey Stroud
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to issue emergency rules banning online and retail sales of flavored e-cigarettes, in response to reports of an increase in vaping-related lung diseases.
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January 16, 2020
Climate Change Has Caused More Rain, Helping Fight Australian Wildfires
By Tiffany Taylor
Alarmists are pointing their finger at climate change for the recent wildfires in Australia, claiming global warming is causing drought conditions that have facilitated the fires.
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January 16, 2020
Trump Proposes Much-Needed Reform of National Environmental Policy Act
By Christopher Talgo
While running for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised to provide relief to the stifling regulations that at-best delay and at-worst completely halt infrastructure projects.
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January 16, 2020
While NOAA/NASA Claims 2019 as the 'Second Warmest Year Ever,' Other Data show 2019 Cooler Than 2005 for US
By Anthony Watts
Imagine if the entire world had a high quality state of the art temperature monitoring network like the USA does. Arguments over data quality, adjustments, UHI, time of observation, and many other niggles which affect and bias the data would disappear.
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January 16, 2020
Partners in Liberty: The American Legislative Exchange Council
By American Legislative Exchange Council staff
The American Legislative Exchange Council is America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets, and federalism.
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January 15, 2020
What It Was Like at Trump’s Milwaukee Rally Tuesday Night
By Darren Brady Nelson
Trump slowly walked and waved his way to the podium. When he waved my way, up in one of the “nose bleed” sections, but it weirdly felt like he was waving just at me.
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January 15, 2020
New Jersey Spends $1 Billion-Plus on Private Meadowlands Development
By Ashley Herzog
"American Dream" Mall Opens after More than a Decade
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January 15, 2020
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to NOAA’s Claim 2019 ‘Second-warmest Year on Record’
By Anthony Watts, James Taylor, H. Sterling Burnett
Agency’s own data actually shows 2019 was cooler than 2005 in the United States; global temp claims riddled with problems
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January 15, 2020
Partners in Liberty: Mackinac Center for Public Policy
By Mackinac Center
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a Michigan-based free-market think which, when considering whether to take up a policy issue in the state, asks, “If not Mackinac, who?”
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January 14, 2020
Misguided Youth Protesters Have It Wrong — the World Is Actually Getting Better and Better
By H. Sterling Burnett
All the good news is likely to depress them beyond recovery.
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January 14, 2020
US Farmers Know – DC Doesn’t: Trump Remains Farmers’ Best Friend
By Seton Motley
Washington, DC has spent decades in bipartisan fashion making the lives of our farmers more and more miserable
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January 14, 2020
One in Four New York State Teachers Outside NYC Get Six-Figure Salaries
By Ashley Herzog
Empire Center Posts Data on Teachers' Compensation at SeeThroughNY.net
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January 14, 2020
How Common Core-Aligned Tests Are Turning College Students Into High School Students
By Sandra Stotsky
What, then, can college readiness test scores in mathematics and reading tell us?
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January 14, 2020
When the Impossible Happens
By Daniel Sutter
The Berlin Wall, the most visible manifestation of Communist oppression, came down thirty years ago. 
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January 14, 2020
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Outsider Looking In
By Richard Ebeling
Seventy years ago, on January 8, 1950, one of the most famous economists of the 20th century passed away at the age of 66, Joseph A. Schumpeter.
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