The Heartland Institute

...States are facing increasing pressure from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to tighten regulations, and those that... Compliance For years, North Dakota’s environmental managers have regulated air quality and... with EPA disapproval. Now the federal agency is wresting control of the program... ...

Whenever the Environmental Protection Agency or the green movement uses the term "it's for the children" as a justification for their legislative and regulatory restrictions, it is the children who are the first to suffer. First, the EPA banned DDT. And even though this ban in the United States did not require... ...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has announced it will do its... on state businesses. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) action stems from a 2010... outlined Common Sense Principles for state agencies to develop and follow so business... would allow the waving of... ...

... work done by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is duplicated and in fact done... collective wisdom of our 50 state environmental protection agencies. EPA’s Original Purpose When EPA... conduct research to determine needs for environmental regulation, promote such legislation in Congress... ...

... manmade greenhouse-gas emissions endanger the environment and thus should be regulated under... from regulating agricultural dust; blocking the agency from enforcing new water-quality standards... on coal ash; and stopping the agency from imposing new regulations on particulate... taxpayer subsidies, federal mandates... ...

... a bill that would prohibit state agencies from adopting new rules and regulations... economic growth and hurt our business environment, Burzichelli explained in a press statement... for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection stated in a phone interview the... a position on the bill. State... ...

In late June 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) responded to a three-year... longest time ever taken by any agency to respond to any stakeholder Information... or sponsored by EPA. Although the agency acknowledged some improvements were needed, it... an interagency committee involving other... ...

... of water is being pushed by environmental activist groups in the weeks leading... Restoration Act, which would give federal agencies unprecedented authority over what were previously... Water Act (CWA), Congress gave the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of... the brakes on attempts... ...

As scientific evidence of climate change has become clearer and more compelling, the prescription for changing course seems to have become more muddled and mysterious. Philanthropists who are concerned about climate change are inundated with a dizzying array of often contradictory options and opinions. Should they back renewable ...

Over the years, the environmental lobby has advanced a considerable number... to the passage of hundreds of environmental statutes. But the legacy does not... many of these laws require federal agencies to issue regulations on an ongoing... the scope and growth of the environmental regulatory state. It shows... ...

... appointees greater management authority over executive agencies, and specifically over the quasi-regulatory... legal loophole that had allowed federal agencies to circumvent regulatory review and planning... binding effect--they are merely an agency's interpretation of how the public... a rule is the U.S. Environmental... ...

...Over the past three decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repeatedly ratcheted up restrictions... since the budgets of EPA and environmental organizations depend on public anxiety over... science in the service of fanatical environmentalism. John Dale Dunn, M.D., J... in non... ...

President richard nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and Congress passed the Clean Air... Act in 1970 because the public demanded protection. The pollution that worried voters most... this rule was not, however, to protect children from lead. Congress had decided... in 1970 that this... ...

... to those concerns, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) produced an External Review Draft... the comment period closed, and the agency now plans to revise the white... does not provide clarity about the agency's current view of its own... information developed by the manifold federal agencies... ...

... supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Katrina; environmental propoganda about the supposed effect of global warming on tropical storms; Congress passing an energy bill panned as " No Lobbyist Left Behind" ; and high home-heating costs due to increased demand for natural gas.... ...

Arizona rancher Jim Chilton was, as a cowboy might say, hoppin' mad. He had just looked at photographs that the radical Center for Biological Diversity had taken of land where he grazes his cattle. ...

It was June 11, 2003, the evening before the day of what should have been a happy event for the Ford Motor Company - its hundreth anniversary. But the next day's headlines in the Detroit Free Press were stolen from the company. Activists from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) had scaled the fourteen-story downtown building ...

Federal environmental policy is horribly off track, and the debate over what to do about it is characterized by a lack of rigorous thinking. ...

... his grim classic 1984. But the environmental group called Oceana no doubt counts on public ignorance of the literary connection.... ...

Now, decades after the first environmental laws were passed in this country... many choices when seeking to solve environmental problems. Will taxing polluters for their discharges be more effective than fining them for not meeting certain emissions standards?... ...