The Heartland Institute

... episode educated industry participants that customer protections in the U.S. commodity futures... in the face of a challenging environment for its business model. The Final... into liquidation in a Securities Investors Protection Act (SIPA) proceeding. The legal procedures... of the bankruptcy, the Securities Investor... ...

... 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... ...

Last December, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new standards that sharply limit emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from the nation’s coal- and oil-burning power plants. Shortly, EPA will be issuing similar rules for industrial boilers. If the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used improper procedures and analytical methods... would mark the first time the agency has ever found a link between... the EPA's conclusions, including the agency's primary claim of contamination caused... s surface. Federal, state, and local environmental... ...

... 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... ...

... Corps because the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps have published a proposed guidance to replace the Bush administration’s 2007 regulatory guidance. The proposal is currently undergoing final review. Critics argue the guidance will give the federal government power to... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected a request by the... of toxicity to humans and the environment has made it one of the... unreasonable risks to people or the environment. NRDC in 2008 filed a petition... reviewed NRDC’s request that the Agency cancel all 2,4-D product... species... ...

... SECURITY The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency warned in 1974 that cooling temperatures... warming “is not even the biggest” environmental problem, the reliably alarmist Time magazine... that the butterfly would require special protections to avoid extinction. SOURCE: Associated Press/Washington Examiner HOUSE VOTES... ...

Last month, the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency issued 588 pages of new regulations... report from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality found only two cases out... production with no significant health or environmental benefits. The EPA may have exceeded... Under the Clean... ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used improper procedures and analytical methods... would mark the first time the agency has ever found a link between... the EPA's conclusions, including the agency's primary claim of contamination caused by hydraulic fracturing activity,” the SSPA assessment concluded... ...

... aid in managing the breach. The agency has hired two independent auditing firms... and monitor efforts to notify and protect victims. SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune CAN... The goal is to “create an environment in schools where kids have an opportunity to make choices among healthy options.” Many Americans, in... ...

... Interior will soon issue numerous new environmental and safety rules pursuant to hydraulic... U.S. Careful studies by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ground Water Protection Council haven’t revealed a single case of ground water contamination from shale gas drilling. That’s because... ...

... officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency asked that the program be extended... available and affordable flood insurance to protect themselves against losses." Since 2008 there... proposed bill would aid mitigation and environmental protection by requiring accurate flood maps and... but destroys... ...

... Finally, a 2009 study by the Environmental Protection Agency found that the reduction in CO2 emissions from burning ethanol is minimal and may actually be negative since making ethanol requires new land from clearing forests and grasslands that would otherwise sequester carbon emissions. Though ethanol has... ...

... a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency promising the state will employ “all available legal options” if the federal agency blocks development of Pebble Mine, a gold and copper mine opposed by environmental activist groups. Activists claim the mine... mine, but that has not stopped... ...

... problems. Quite often, building levees to protect one area can make flooding worse... to it) can do more to protect inland residents than any amount of... of issues related to the imperfect protection that levees provide have come to... for properties behind levees. In general, environmental and free... ...

Environmental activists are in disarray over a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision that transportation fuel made from palm oil does not produce sufficient environmental benefit to qualify as a renewable... of the 20-percent standard. Some environmental activist groups oppose palm oil fuels... ...

... overseen EPA’s war on Texas environmental officials who EPA alleges haven’t... never showed they had violated applicable environmental laws.... ...

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... ...

... process for more than 50 years, environmental activists and alternative fuel lobbies have... the Obama Administration to engage the Environmental Protection Agency in overseeing shale gas extraction. Yet... studies by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of 94 monitoring sites... production... ...