The Heartland Institute

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — under pressure from environmentalists and... Under the Clean Air Act, the Agency has authority to regulate emissions of... report from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) found only two cases... production with no significant health or environmental... ...

... floodplains. In an effort to prevent environmentally damaging and economically expensive construction in... lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency seeking a moratorium on flood insurance... governments are already doing enough to protect the species in question. The following... National Flood... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun a war on... the past couple of years, the Agency has undertaken the most expansive regulatory... Obama Administration had already surpassed the Agency’s regulatory output in the entire... Major findings in the report include: • Environmental... ...

... western states that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is unfairly imposing costly restrictions and penalties on them for pollution that is out of their control. EPA has proposed further restrictions on ozone levels, even though western states do not have the ability to block Asian pollution from raising... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed carbon dioxide restrictions that... effects on human health and the environment,” said an EPA March 27 press... to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and... would kill jobs merely to please environmental activists... ...

... regulate chemicals not covered by other environmental statutes. TSCA also differs from other environmental laws in setting a risk-based standard for allowing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate chemicals. TSCA “also demands that the agency consider both cost-benefit... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is underestimating the costs of numerical... water, said Lehr, often for no environmental benefit. Cheryl Chumley (ckchumley@aol.com) writes from northern Virginia. ... ...

... from its “threatened” status. Nevertheless, the agency has yet to officially change the... the part of FWS indicate the agency is not concerned so much with species protection, Middleton said, but rather with retaining power. Real People Suffering Harm In the meantime, said Middleton, plenty of residents have... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed restrictions on carbon dioxide... pain for no significant real-world environmental impact. EPA will accept comments for... 60 days after publishing the proposed rules. The agency also will conduct public hearings. SOURCE... between flood damages and... ...

... rights. “Do we really want an environment where any telecom provider can shut... FCC regulations in this area—to protect speech and safety.” Obtaining Court Permission... The EFF argues local law enforcement agencies have no authority to interrupt phone... protests or any other First Amendment protected... ...

... decades, the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was argued... Institute Responds to EPA Emissions Rule Environment & Climate Lisa Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced this week that the agency will tighten restrictions... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to release global warming restrictions that will effectively ban the construction of coal-fired power plants, the Washington Post reports this morning. According to the Post , the new restrictions could be announced as early as today. Assuming the Washington Post... ...

... professional liability insurance and legal employment protection. Though the bill did not pass... to list every possible related insurance agency, leading to frustration for districts and... employment disputes. “Teachers want to be protected because education has become a very litigious environment. In... ...

... the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy, and the Environment. PSC Chairman Kevin Gunn conducted his... by providers to state and federal agencies is not consistent. Reporting standards are different for state and federal agencies. Data submitted may not be accurate.” He later explained... ...

... Hears Testimony to Amend Video Privacy Protection Act Telecom On January 31, the... and against changing the Video Privacy Protection Act, a law written to keep... Hydraulic Fracturing and Groundwater Contamination Energy & Environment The Environmental Protection Agency’s release of its draft... ...

... 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 FDA in 2008 requesting the agency ban BPA. When the FDA failed... 2010, scientists with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published research finding rats do not... Janssen, a senior scientist in the Environment and Public Health program at the... The FDA has an obligation to protect... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent a series of letters... what the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is considering as part of its hydro-fracking environmental roadmap, released for public comment in... they know more about managing the environment than those... ...

... hasn’t deterred the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from fining companies a total of $6.8 million for noncompliance. Oil companies could face even stiffer penalties in 2012. EPA demanded transportation fuel companies mix 6.6 million gallons of cellulosic biodiesel into gasoline and diesel in 2011... ...

Wisconsin state environmental officials say they have no plans... finding little support for claims of environmental damage done by sand mining. Unique... or more tons annually,” Kennan told Environment & Climate News . "Wisconsin needs jobs for... the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. “An environmentally sound... ...