The Heartland Institute

One year after releasing a widely criticized draft assessment of the environmental impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in May released a revised analysis of the project. The revised analysis addresses many concerns EPA’s own scientists raised after reviewing the draft assessment ...

Alaska residents will receive $1,174 each—more than $3,000 on average per household—in oil revenue disbursements this year from the state’s Permanent Dividend Fund, the Alaska Department of Revenue has announced. Created in 1976 through a constitutional amendment approved by the voters, the Permanent Dividend Fund is Alaska’s way ...