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October 15, 2019
Two Kansas Counties Stop Major Wind, Solar Industrial Developments
Two central Kansas counties are applying the brakes to the expansion of industrial wind facilities within their borders.
Employment
October 14, 2019
Congress Considers Union-Supported Labor Law Rewrite
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act working its way through Congress.
Environment
October 14, 2019
Idaho Phosphate Mine Wins Approval by Bureau of Land Management
The Idaho Falls District Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved the Caldwell Canyon Mine Project, an open pit phosphate mine in Caribou County in the southeastern part of the state.
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Environment
October 14, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Blame Government For Rising College Tuition
Week of October 7, 2019
Climate Change
October 11, 2019
Chicken Little Syndrome Evident in ‘End of World’ Predictions
Climate Change Weekly #338
Environment
October 11, 2019
EPA Allows Environmental Review of Alaska Pebble Mine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its Obama-era 2014 decision preventing consideration of the Pebble Mine project near Bristol Bay, Alaska, allowing the environmental review process to begin.

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October 10, 2019
EPA to Rescind East Texas Air-Quality Nonattainment Designation
By Bonner R. Cohen
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposes to reverse the agency’s 2016 designation of parts of five east Texas counties near a large coal-fueled power plant as being in nonattainment for sulfur dioxide levels under the 1970 Clean Air Act.
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October 10, 2019
Trump Administration Promotes Species Conservation with New Rules
By Daren Bakst
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service released final regulations aimed at improving implementation of the 1973 Endangered Species Act to protect threatened and endangered species while strengthening pr
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October 9, 2019
Wealth Tames ‘Extreme’ Weather
By H. Sterling Burnett
Hard data, collected over decades, show no increase in the frequency or severity of hurricanes over the past century.
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October 9, 2019
Is Greenland for Sale?
By Daniel Sutter
Regardless of whether buying Greenland offers value, Mr. Trump’s proposal represents progress in international relations and raises interesting questions regarding property and markets.
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October 9, 2019
Progressivism Is An Imposter
By Richard Ebeling
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”
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October 9, 2019
School Choice Can Bust Government’s Education Monopoly
By Robert G. Holland
For the past year, South Carolina lawmakers have focused on a major education reform plan. Unfortunately, their plan will likely not include the most significant education reform possible: school choice.
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October 9, 2019
Climate Catastrophe Theory Is ‘Hoax,’ Award-Winning Scientist Says
By Jay Lehr, H. Sterling Burnett
Beginning in 1980, with the very poorly thought-out Comprehensive Environmental Regulation and Compensation Act legislation, better known as Superfund, environmental zealots took over EPA, and not another useful piece of legislation has passed since.
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October 8, 2019
Study: Medicare For All Would Require Huge Tax Hikes On The Middle Class
By Christopher Talgo
Several studies estimate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ recently released Medicare for All (M4A) plan would cost approximately $30–$40 trillion over the next decade.
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October 8, 2019
Beneficial Choice Entails More Than ‘Mental Health Days’
By Robert G. Holland
Instead of mental health days, Oregon should try mental health school transfers.
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October 8, 2019
Nevada Transit Authority’s Ridesharing Service Rolls Up Huge Losses
By Juliana Knot
The Southern Nevada Regional Transportation Commission’s (RTC) rideshare service, “Trip to Strip,” was launched in May.
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