The Heartland Institute

... take place safely and with minimal environmental impact. At issue is a plan... and around the world without creating environmental or health problems,” he writes. “Based... an extensive regulatory regime exists to protect miners, people living near the mine... uranium resources in a safe and environmentally... ...

... CARB), a subdivision of the California Environmental Protection Agency, published its final rule to reduce... the worst imposed on Californians. The agency claimed the new regulation would prevent... look at the data and the agency’s claims shows the proposed plan will produce little or no reduction... ...

In the aftermath of a hurricane landfall, there often isn’t enough data or experience relating to the losses to make known for certain whether a given loss resulted from wind or water. Each time an indeterminate loss situation (total home destruction) takes place, protracted legal battles and custom-made agreements are currently ...

... major problems with Texas’s insurance environment and proposes four categories of action that elected leaders should take in order to remedy them. The right actions will make the state more fiscally stable, safer, and more resistant to nature’s worst.The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s management, its costs, the... ...

... view, serves as a means to protect consumers from fraud and malpractice. The... question, thus reducing competition. Those seeking protection from barriers of this sort believe... examination, does PI 34 provide substantial protection for consumers? That is, does it... quality education? Or does PI 34 protect... ...

... offers benefits to consumers and the environment, but the practice is not without... their quality. Part 3 describes the environmental impacts of auto parts recycling, finding... of alternative parts. The consumer and environmental benefits of alternative parts are considerable... favor when regulations are debated... ...

... regulation in the areas of consumer protection, the environment, and telecommunications. It then describes of what I call the Johnston Test, after economist Jim Johnston, and applies his theory to six areas of regulation. Finally, I explain why I believe the Johnston Test could be a very useful tool for policymakers... ...

Billions of dollars are being spent each year on publicly funded scientific research in the U.S. However, the Climategate scandal has brought to light glaring problems in publicly funded science including: the slowing of the advancement of science to a crawl, vast sums of money being squandered, and disturbing occurrences of ...

The financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 in the subprime mortgage market in the U.S. and spread quickly both to other financial sectors and throughout much of the globe was the most severe such crisis since the Great Depression of the early 1930s with similar but less-severe adverse consequences for the domestic ...

... nature of the state s built environment mean none of these things can change radically any time soon. Although free-market principles might be served through radical steps, such as immediately abolishing Citizens, it s not possible or practical to do so. Instead, the legislature, governor, and insurance regulators should... ...

... of the business, industry, government and environmental consulting communities to create a plan... of the business, industry, government and environmental consulting communities to create a plan... include cash grants, tax incentives, accelerated environmental permitting process and loans and industrial... loans, fuel... ...

Economist Jim Johnston explains the differences between political markets, such as the one created for trading sulfur dioxide emissions, and real markets, such as futures markets for natural gas. Key differences explain why political markets are thin and often collapse when governments change the rules, while real markets are ...