The Heartland Institute

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to track lower than year 2000 levels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported on January 23, extending this century’s downward trend in U.S. emissions. The new data rebut assertions that the United States needs to impose new restrictions on coal-fired power plants and other ...

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 ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski traveled to Alaska in August to check the progress of $88 million in stimulus spending for broadband buildout in the state. Claims made by Genachowski, however, have not registered well with free-market advocates who say the buildout would’ve happened without taxpayer ...

A record 40 states offered $1.4 billion in film and television tax incentives in 2010. That will likely stand as the peak year, because many governors and legislators are ending their programs, preferring to use the money for other priorities or leave it with taxpayers. All told, states have provided nearly $6 billion for ...

As gasoline prices rise, most Americans cringe. But two oil-producing states are reaping benefits from higher gas prices, as rising oil prices translate to billions of dollars in tax revenue for Alaska and Texas. Revenues Flow into Alaska, Texas Gasoline prices have more than doubled since President Barack Obama took office. According ...