The Heartland Institute

Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a newly published survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies . The survey throws cold water on assertions by global warming alarmists that nearly all scientists agree humans are causing a global warming ...

U.S. regulatory cost estimates of around $1.8 trillion per year encompass compliance costs paid by the public plus economic drag. But those estimates do not include the costs of administering the regulatory state—on-budget amounts spent by federal agencies to produce rules and to police regulatory compliance are not accounted ...

Grassroots environmentalists are increasingly calling out large, prominent activist groups for selling out to corporate donors from the renewable energy industry. Nowhere is the split between corporate-type “Big Green” groups and grassroots “Little Green” groups more apparent than in southeastern California, where Big Green activist ...

Secret negotiations over employment contracts between union representatives and government officials are the norm in nearly every state in the union. This keeps taxpayers in the dark about how compensation packages are awarded and stops journalists from knowing what goes on behind closed doors. In a report released by the Goldwater ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Los Angeles County Flood Control District that it did not have to implement special pollution abatement plans for water flowing from concrete-encased storm water channels into more natural portions of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel rivers. The Supreme Court ruled the U.S. Circuit Court ...

Todd Wynn, director of the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council, explains how renewable energy mandates are punishing the economy. ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has unveiled a plan to privatize the Keystone State’s monopoly liquor store system, simultaneously executing a move intended to accomplish a goal of his administration while undercutting some of his loudest critics. In Pittsburgh, Corbett, a Republican, said the proceeds from selling off the state ...

A key issue for many state legislatures this year is transportation funding. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) have proposed sales tax increases for transportation, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) has proposed raising his state’s second-lowest-in-the-nation gasoline tax, and others have proposed new ...

Exercising their rights under California’s 2010 Parent Trigger law, more than 300 parents delivered petitions to the Los Angeles school district in January, calling for their children’s failing school to be improved or converted into a charter school. Parents are now reviewing proposals from eight different organizations and ...