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Al Gore Great Reset
July 10, 2020
Al Gore Joins Global Elites Calling for Eco-Socialist ‘Great Reset’ Proposal
On Friday, June 19, climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore joined the growing list of high-profile world leaders calling for a “Great Reset” of the world economy to help battle climate change.
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Prince Charles great reset
July 10, 2020
Global Elites Announce ‘Great Reset’ Plan—And It’s Even More Radical Than the Green New Deal
At a virtual World Economic Forum meeting, global leaders from the United Nations, United Kingdom, United States, International Monetary Fund and multi-national corporations discussed and announced a plan to develop a “Great Reset” of the entire world.
Climate Change
Al Gore Great Reset
July 10, 2020
Exposing Al Gore’s Deep Connection to World Leaders' Socialist ‘Great Reset’ Proposal
Earlier in June, the World Economic Forum (WEF), a highly influential nonprofit organization based in Europe, announced its plan to push for a “Great Reset” of global capitalism.
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Energy
June 1, 2020
New Federal Rules Written to Increase Electric Supply Competition in New York
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued orders imposing minimum bid prices on subsidized renewable energy resources in New York’s energy capacity market, increasing competition for power suppliers.
Energy
May 28, 2020
Trump Administration Approves Economically and Environmentally Costly Nevada Solar Project
The U.S. Department of Interior has approved the largest solar installation in U.S. history, a 690-megawatt project to be constructed on federal land approximately 30 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Environment
May 27, 2020
Trump Administration Backs Aquaculture Expansion
President Donald Trump’s issued an executive order directing federal agencies develop plans to boost domestic seafood production, in part by reducing regulatory barriers to commercial fishing and fish farming in federal waters.

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Prince Charles great reset
July 10, 2020
Global Elites Announce ‘Great Reset’ Plan—And It’s Even More Radical Than the Green New Deal
By Justin Haskins
At a virtual World Economic Forum meeting, global leaders from the United Nations, United Kingdom, United States, International Monetary Fund and multi-national corporations discussed and announced a plan to develop a “Great Reset” of the entire world.
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Al Gore Great Reset
July 10, 2020
Exposing Al Gore’s Deep Connection to World Leaders' Socialist ‘Great Reset’ Proposal
By Justin Haskins
Earlier in June, the World Economic Forum (WEF), a highly influential nonprofit organization based in Europe, announced its plan to push for a “Great Reset” of global capitalism.
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Al Gore Great Reset
July 10, 2020
Al Gore Joins Global Elites Calling for Eco-Socialist ‘Great Reset’ Proposal
By Justin Haskins
On Friday, June 19, climate activist and former Vice President Al Gore joined the growing list of high-profile world leaders calling for a “Great Reset” of the world economy to help battle climate change.
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June 1, 2020
New Federal Rules Written to Increase Electric Supply Competition in New York
By Emma Kaden
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued orders imposing minimum bid prices on subsidized renewable energy resources in New York’s energy capacity market, increasing competition for power suppliers.
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May 28, 2020
Trump Administration Approves Economically and Environmentally Costly Nevada Solar Project
By H. Sterling Burnett
The U.S. Department of Interior has approved the largest solar installation in U.S. history, a 690-megawatt project to be constructed on federal land approximately 30 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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May 27, 2020
Trump Administration Backs Aquaculture Expansion
By H. Sterling Burnett
President Donald Trump’s issued an executive order directing federal agencies develop plans to boost domestic seafood production, in part by reducing regulatory barriers to commercial fishing and fish farming in federal waters.
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May 25, 2020
‘Planet of the Humans’: Michael Moore Goes Off the (Ideological) Grid
By John Couretas
“Planet of the Humans” an entertaining and educational primer on the hype, phoniness, and lies behind green energy projects.
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May 21, 2020
New Hampshire Net Metering Expansion in Limbo
By Tim Benson
The New Hampshire State Senate has overridden a February veto by Governor Chris Sununu, of SB 159, a bill to expand net metering in the Granite State.
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May 20, 2020
NERA Petition Seeks to End State Net Metering
By Tim Benson
The New England Ratepayers Association has filed petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to end the ability of states to pass on the costs of roof top solar panel installations to ratepayers in general.
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May 18, 2020
Trump Administration Interior Department Budget Shifts Priorities
By Kevin Stone
In its 2021 fiscal budget, the Trump administration has proposed an increase over its request for the Department of Interior in 2020.
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May 15, 2020
Federal Judge Halts Keystone XL Pipeline Construction, Again
By H. Sterling Burnett
For the second time in three years, Judge Brian Morris, of the United States District Court for Montana intervened to block construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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May 13, 2020
New EPA Rule Keeps Power Plants Operating in Pennsylvania and West Virginia
By H. Sterling Burnett
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new rule covering acid gas emissions from a few small power plants that reduce waste left behind from mining operations by burning it to produce electricity.
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May 11, 2020
Trump Administration Changes the Way Environmental Costs and Benefits Are Calculated
By H. Sterling Burnett
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a new rule, proposed in 2019, altering the way the federal government calculates the costs and benefits of Mercury and Air Toxics.
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May 7, 2020
Trump Administration Delays Summer Season Fuel Switch
By H. Sterling Burnett
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is delaying the normally required shift to summertime gasoline blends after the coronavirus pandemic caused a plummet in demand, leaving, pipelines, refineries, and storage tanks full of winter-grade fuel.
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May 5, 2020
U.S. EPA Maintains Current Soot Standards
By H. Sterling Burnett
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced, after careful review of the best available evidence, it would retain, without changes, standards for particulate matter pollution, more commonly known as soot.
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May 4, 2020
Common Core Has Led to ‘Historic’ Drop in Achievement Scores, Study Finds
By Tim Benson
A new study has found the adoption of the Common Core State Standards has led to a 'historic' drop in student achievement scores.
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May 4, 2020
Alphabet Unit Experiment Shows Promise in Reducing Disease Bearing Mosquitos
By H. Sterling Burnett
A project operated by Verily Life Sciences to wipe out mosquitos that spread diseases including dengue fever, malaria, West Nile virus, and Zika among others, is having success in tests at three sites in California.
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May 1, 2020
Idaho Lawmakers Mull Fate of State’s Common Core Standards
By Bonner R. Cohen
Idaho lawmakers are considering replacing the Common Core standards with a more rigorous and flexible plan
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April 30, 2020
States Suspending Plastic Bag Bans in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
By H. Sterling Burnett
Numerous cities and states with plastic bag bans are suspending these policies in response to public health concerns raised about the safety of alternative reusable bags during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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April 28, 2020
Profile: 'CAFE' Program Provides Free-Enterprise Perspective to University Students
By Matthew L. Kelly
The Colloquium for the Advancement of Free-Enterprise Education at the University of Texas-Dallas teaches students about the foundations and history of the nation's economic system
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April 27, 2020
Hawaii Democrats Are Pushing a Broad Carbon Dioxide Tax
By Duggan Flanakin
Senate Democrats who passed Senate Bill 3150 which would impose a $40 per metric ton tax on of carbon dioxide emissions beginning in 2021, incrementally increasing the tax rate in stages to reach a price of $80 per metric ton by 2030.
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April 27, 2020
U.S. BLM Washington Insiders Quit Rather than Accept Relocation to the Nation’s Heartland
By H. Sterling Burnett
More than half of the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management’s Washington, D.C. staff have quit rather than accept transfers to Colorado and other western states to be closer to the lands they manage.
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April 23, 2020
Genetically Engineered Moths Could Eliminate Crop Pests
But farmers might soon be getting a new weapon to combat them: Genetically engineered versions of the moths that mate with wild pests and cause half their offspring to die.
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April 23, 2020
U.S. EPA, DOT, Promote Safety by Reducing Mandated Future Fuel Economy Increases
By H. Sterling Burnett
The Trump administration finalized updates to the nation’s fuel economy standard, saying the new rule will better protect air quality, consumer choice, and public safety than the previous rule issued during Barack Obama’s presidency.
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April 21, 2020
Partners in Liberty: The Caesar Rodney Institute
By David T. Stevenson
The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is a Delaware based non-profit, dedicated to protecting individual freedom, and free markets.
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April 17, 2020
Ten Years Out, Electronic Health Records Raise Ire
By Leo Pusateri
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were once touted as an easily transferrable, cost-effective way to record patient care, but more than a decade after their introduction, they are a subject of heated debate.
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April 16, 2020
Indiana University-Bloomington Makes SAT/ACT Testing Optional for Admissions
By Kelsey Hackem
IU-Bloomington joined the six other components in the IU System that have also elected to become test optional.
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April 16, 2020
Minnesota Regulators Approve Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline Replacement
By Bonner R. Cohen
The Minnesota Public Utility Commission voted to approve an environmental review of the replacement for Enbridge Energy’s aging, corroded, and cracking Line 3 crude oil pipeline.
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April 16, 2020
Physicians Still Waiting for Flexibility in Prescribing to Suicidal Patients
By Madeline Peltzer
After publicly calling attention to the problem eight years, physicians say there has been little to no change in the way insurance companies cover prescription medications for suicidal patients considered in danger of a drug overdose.
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April 14, 2020
New Strategy on Patient Health Data Targets Consumers
By Kelsey Hackem
Before the Coronavirus pandemic took center stage, the Trump Administration began executing new rules for better production, use, and sharing of medical records.
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April 14, 2020
Federal Judge Rejects Arizona Copper Mine Approved by Federal Agencies
By Kevin Stone
A federal judge has overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of a permit for Hudbay Minerals’ proposed Rosemont copper mine in Arizona’s Coronado National Forest.
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April 14, 2020
Mining Expansion Necessary for Green New Deal Would Devastate the Global Environment
By Tim Benson
A new Heartland Policy Brief details how mining operations needed for the Green New Deal would devastate the environment
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April 13, 2020
On-line Lambda School Offers Students Income Share Agreements in lieu of Tuition
By Ashley Herzog
For-profit schools like Lambda are an important alternative to traditional universities that impose a heavy financial burden on students.
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April 13, 2020
Tyson Timbs’ Asset Forfeiture Case in District Court Following Indiana Supreme Court Decision
By Kelsey Hackem
Tyson Timbs has been trying to recover a Land Rover seized by police in connection with his arrest for a drug offense in 2013.
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April 13, 2020
FDA Gives Biosimilars a Boost by Expanding Database
By Ashley Bateman
The so-call "Purple Book" is a list of all licensed biologic products and is a reference guide for patients, providers, payers and manufactureres.
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April 13, 2020
Partners in Liberty: Pacific Research Institute
By Staff, Pacific Research Institute
The Pacific Research Institute’s Center for the Environment researches the dramatic trend toward a cleaner environment and promotes the catalysts for environmental quality: property rights, local action, markets, and private initiative.
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April 9, 2020
T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Could Boost Wireless Service Competition
By Joe Barnett
Two telecoms complete a merger expected to speed 5G broadband deployment.
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April 9, 2020
Time for Climate Sense
By Viv Forbes
The carbon dioxide scare is proving to be just that—a scare. It’s time for some climate sense.
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April 9, 2020
Colorado Bills Aim to Improve Medicaid Primary Care Through Telemedicine
By Ashley Herzog
Colorado lawmakers are proposing a bill to expand telemedicine in an effort to improve health care access for Medicaid patients.
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April 8, 2020
Environmentalists Pushing Multiple Renewable Energy Initiatives for Missouri Ballot
By Duggan Flanakin
Missouri voters may decide this November whether to expand the state’s commitment to renewable energy through their votes on at least one of three separate initiatives.
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