The Heartland Institute

... TO EXTREMIST GROUPS The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is handing over $1.9 million in taxpayer dollars to environmental extremist groups working for “environmental justice.” EPA is awarding grants to... 76 non-profit organizations and local governments under its environmental justice... ...

... 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... ...

... a memo claiming humans harm the environment by eating meat and urging USDA... One simple way to reduce your environmental impact while dining at our cafeterias... day of the week help the environment? The production of meat, especially beef... (and dairy as well), has a large environmental impact. According... ...

... Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment . Instead, he said, “They do behavior... basically do certain things they consider environmentally correct without good, hard evidence and... is profound,” said Tim Ball, an environmental consultant and retired University of Winnipeg... on Advocacy NSF is a federal... ...

... appeals threw out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, saying EPA usurped too much authority from individual states and ordered states to make deeper emissions cuts than authorized under federal law. Under the Clean Air Act, the individual states retain authority to draft... ...

... urging Congress to rein in an Environmental Protection Agency that has gone “rogue” in recent years, seizing unauthorized power for itself that robs us of property rights and economic vitality. Read More Plant Diversities on Sixty-Six Warming European Mountaintops (21 August 2012) Although mountaintop warming... ...

Credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service recently downgraded... despite the banks operating in an environment where their cost of capital is... that banks reserve more capital to protect against default, which ties up money... shareholders, which in the current economic environment of weak demand for... ...

... demanding that Congress “ rein in the Environmental Protection Agency ” (EPA) through deep cuts in the size, power, and cost of the agency . EPA was established in 1970 to protect the nation’s air and water... EPA has increasingly become a rogue agency , spending billions of dollars... ...

... issued a memorandum to all federal agencies concerning the proper application of the... and accountability requires transparency.” Obama told agency heads that FOIA “should be administered... are playing a greater role than environmental stewardship and wildlife protection. “There is no question that decisions... ...

... forecast may nevertheless be derailed by environmental activists and government officials clamping down... many states and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sending signals it may severely... now and 2035—as long as environmental activists don’t shut it down. The Bakken and Three Forks... ...

... sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to... taking unprecedented measures to ensure sound environmental stewardship at the mine. EPA has... even before the partnership submits required environmental reports and proposals. The text of... Lisa P. Jackson... ...

... 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... ...

... to wait until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency follows through on its threat to... a wetland that is entitled to protection under the Clean Water Act. The... doesn’t mean anything to the agency. “Anybody from the outside looking at... land. “Without exaggeration, you have an agency... ...

Al Armendariz, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator who resigned in... member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, facetiously congratulated Armendariz... Policy Analysis, notes Armendariz was an environmental extremist long before joining EPA. “Armendariz... economic... ...

... American energy production by creating an environment in which coal production’s decline... to appropriately balance economic growth and environmental protection.... ...

... Heartland Institute policy advisor on the environment and energy, was a guest a guest for the whole third hour on the nationally syndicated Dennis Prager Show on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. He was on to talk about his new Encounter Broadside, How the EPA’s Green Tyranny is Stifling America . Rich joined Heartland... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is grossly overstating the economic benefits of its various environmental restrictions, environmental expert Richard Trzupek told the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on... and Technology. Trzupek, a chemist and environmental... ...

... improve its financial performance and reduce environmental harm. The flood insurance reform comes... it must address the fiscally irresponsible, environmentally destructive and, frankly, unsustainable flood insurance... to lapse. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is also asked to more accurately... high risk... ...

... the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, a group of state and local... air pollution control officials that routinely champions environmental activist claims and controversial U.S. Environmental Protection Agency restrictions. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott... ...

... crying foul after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took the unprecedented step of issuing... most or all of the negative environmental impacts. Rerouting rivers and streams potentially... spent more than $100 million on environmental and socioeconomic studies to create the... for a scientific... ...