By Pamela Gorman, The Heartland Institute The City of San Francisco’s costly rebate program to induce installation of low-flow toilets is backfiring, with city officials scrambling to combat clogged sewer lines and a horrible stench near important tourist neighborhoods. Stench in Tourist Districts The lack of sufficient water flow in the city’s sewer system has…
Paul Driessen
Power for the people
You cannot champion the poor, but support anti-energy policies that perpetuate poverty By Paul Driessen In a scene reminiscent of Colonial Williamsburg, for 16 years Thabo Molubi and his partner had made furniture in South Africa’s outback, known locally as the “veld,” using nothing but hand and foot power. When an electrical line finally reached…
Heartland Institute, Jay Lehr
Review: How Rising Carbon Dioxide Benefits Plant Life
By Jay Lehr, The Heartland Institute Review of “The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment” by Craig D. Idso and Sherwood B. Idso (Vales Lake Publishing, 2011), 366 pages, ISBN-13: 978- 0981969428 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has declared carbon dioxide (CO2) a dangerous air pollutant, but just the opposite is actually the case. Not…
Barun Mitra, Willie Soon
What really threatens our future?
Beware of anti-energy policies claiming to prevent climate change By Willie Soon and Barun Mitra Energy sustainability is not about resource availability and pollution. Capitalism and human ingenuity have already addressed “sustainability” in these regards, if the statistics are to be believed. The real sustainability challenge and threat concerns government intervention in the name of…
Heartland Institute
Arctic Study Finds No Recent Warming
By Craig D. Idso The Heartland Institute Climate alarmists contend the earth’s near-surface air temperatures of the past decade were unprecedentedly high relative to the warmth of the entire past millennium, due primarily to human carbon dioxide emissions. They also claim this warming has been most strongly expressed throughout the Arctic, which they often describe…
Heartland Institute, Jay Lehr
State-Based Environmental Programs: A BetterWay Than EPA
By Jay Lehr The Heartland Institute Federal and state legislators have recently been focusing on eliminating duplication of government programs that could be combined or eliminated to save billions of taxpayer dollars. Yet the elimination of one colossal duplication could save billions of dollars but has not been mentioned: Essentially all of the work done…