The Heartland Institute

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new rule... and will have a “very small” environmental benefit. The costs to refineries may... regulations to gasoline, especially for negligible environmental and health benefits, given the significant... otaq/tier3.htm The U.S. Environmental... ...

... Medicaid expansion, hydraulic fracturing in Florida, protecting student data, Illinois pension reform, yet... Research & Commentary: Hydraulic Fracturing in Florida Environment Heartland Policy Analyst Taylor Smith examines... Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency, found more than 8,000 wells... Ed: States... ...

... Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency, found more than 8,000 wells... explains why: “The shallow layers are protected from injected fluid by a number... cannot proceed if these layers of protection are not fully functional. Good oil... director for Michigan’s Department of Environmental... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), created... a report evaluating the economic and environmental effects of the renewable fuel standard... otaq/fuels/renewablefuels/ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explains the renewable fuel standard... this... ...

... the oil and gas industry and environmental activists are directing their attention to... Oil & Gas Compact Commission, a government agency, between 30,000 and 50,000... shale plays. The shallow layers are protected from injected fluid by a number... cannot proceed if these layers of protection are not... ...

... Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency imposes a 10 millirem limit on... been proven safe to both the environment and public health under current regulations... congressmen who have fought back to protect the state’s energy costs and... the focus of the U.S. Environmental... ...

... fracturing in New York State, extreme environmental activist groups are pressuring him to... hydraulic fracturing. A Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection air sampling report for gas exploration... the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation released its highly anticipated Revised... ...

... is also dubious. The International Energy Agency (IEA) states U.S. carbon dioxide... effective than a burdensome tax in protecting the environment, lowering unemployment, and spurring economic productivity... 27216,en.html The International Energy Agency releases key findings from its signature... information... ...

... in response to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Proposed Rule titled Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units (henceforth, the “Utility MACT”). For the reasons discussed below, it would be unreasonable, unlawful... ...

... while producing little to no additional protection of drinking water supplies. States considering... Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey about the environmental risks and economic benefits of hydraulic... Schneiderman is wrong to claim federal agencies that have allowed fracking have not... on hydraulic fracturing... ...

... 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... ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s release of its draft ”Investigation... insufficient surface casing that did not protect the entire depth of the aquifer... practices, which provide “a level of protection that is critical to drinking water... the competing viewpoints of industry and environmental... ...

... would allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers NFIP, to buy private... which include both insurance companies and environmental groups, argue only a relatively small... into flood zones, and whether properties protected by levies and other mitigation structures... future, the reform proposals... ...

... the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a... TSCA’s current framework prevents the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from evaluating the safety of... director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality... ...

... already handled by several other executive agencies. By using Section 652 to prevent... Section 652, calling the current regulatory environment “anachronistic.” ACA Calls on FCC to... and a burdensome regulation meant to protect consumers becomes the single biggest obstacle to improving consumer outcomes,” he... ...

... the State Department to lead an environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA is a... and does not mandate that an agency base decisions on their environmental impact, only that the impacts of... be in the national interest. Some environmental groups oppose the pipeline... ...

... s property and casualty insurance regulatory environment. In this 2011 report we again... the reforms, and Florida’s insurance environment continued on a potentially disastrous course... casualty insurance. Nonetheless, both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill... ...

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... ...

... 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... ...

In November 2010, voters around the United States demanded change in Washington. For the third time in as many election cycles, Americans kicked out people in power and replaced them with new, often untested elected leaders. Two months later, in January 2011, many men and women came to Washington having campaigned on promises ...