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The Heartland Institute
April 2, 2018
The U.S. Navy has received waivers from various environmental laws to carry out naval operations and perform sonar training, for example. Ron Arnold, executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, says the DHS environmental waivers are legal and may actually benefit certainÃâà...
The Heartland Institute
February 20, 2018
Climate alarmism dominated the Obama era and run-up to Paris. But it's at least as bizarre, dogmatic and intolerant now that: President Trump pulled the United States out of the all pain/no gain Paris climate pact; the US EPA is reversing anti-fossil fuel programs rooted in doom-and-gloom climatology;Ãâà...
HuffPost
January 25, 2018
They gave a total of $800,000 in 2013 and 2014 to the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Ron Arnold, the group's executive vice president, serves as a policy adviser to Heartland, and has been quoted as saying his goal is “to eradicate the environmental movement.” The foundation began donatingÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
November 13, 2017
“Carbon dioxide is vital plant food,” said Paul Driessen, senior fellow at the nonprofit institutes the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Driessen called carbon dioxide “the miracle molecule that makes life on Earth possible. Rising atmospheric CO2Ãâà...
The Heartland Institute
October 17, 2017
Suppose a crooked prosecutor framed someone and was determined to get a conviction. So he built an entire case on tainted, circumstantial evidence, and testimony from witnesses who had their reasons for wanting the guy in jail. Suppose the prosecutor ignored or hid exculpatory evidence and colludedÃâà...
The Heartland Institute
September 25, 2017
The radical environmentalist war on fossil fuels has opened a new front: a war on pipelines. For years, activist zealots claimed the world was rapidly depleting its oil and natural gas supplies. The fracking revolution (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) obliterated that argument, by sending US oil andÃâà...
The Heartland Institute
September 19, 2017
President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue are doing exactly that in a critically important area: forest management and conflagration prevention. Their actions are informed, courageous and longÃâà...
The Heartland Institute
September 10, 2017
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,” English essayist Samuel Johnson observed 240 years ago, “it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” That's certainly true in the climate change arena. After ending US participation in the Paris climate treaty and abolishing many government restrictions onÃâà...
PR Watch
May 9, 2017
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Somewhat Reasonable
December 31, 1999
Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. He is the author of "Green Power, Black Death" (MerrilÃâà...
Somewhat Reasonable
December 31, 1999
Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. He is the author of "Green Power, Black Death" (MerrilÃâà...
Somewhat Reasonable
December 31, 1999
Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. He is the author of "Green Power, Black Death" (MerrilÃâà...
Somewhat Reasonable
December 31, 1999
Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. He is the author of "Green Power, Black Death" (MerrilÃâà...
