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Air quality expert predicts media will target industry when EPA lowers Chicagoland’s air quality status
Sometime this summer the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) is expected to move the six-county Chicago region from a “moderate” nonattainment category for ground-level ozone (smog) to a “serious” one.
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Nothing 'green' about state's transportation plan except the fee hikes, Heartland director says
The Heartland Institute's George Jamerson deems Illinois lawmakers’ rationale behind seeking to raise the gas tax and vehicle registration fees as flawed through and through.
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Heartland Institute: progressive income tax would only worsen state’s budget problems
In a recent article critical of a proposed move to a progressive income tax, the Heartland Institute’s Matthew Glans and Lennie Jarratt point out that one of the arguments for the tax is an empty one: revenues the state has been collecting through the current flat tax are among the most robust in the Midwest.
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Op-Ed: Media blow another climate change story
Something important was missing from the reporting on a recent study concluding that climate change threatens the Great Lakes with more flooding, heat waves and drought.
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EDITORIAL: Gov. Pritzker's new climate strategy is all pain, no gain
High taxes, record debt, underfunded pensions, notorious corruption, and an ongoing urban crime problem are only a few of Illinois’ most pressing problems.
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EDITORIAL: Pritzker’s climate order is all pain, no gain
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a January 23 executive order committing Illinois to the expensive energy sources and failed carbon-dioxide reduction goals of the United Nations and the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Heartland Institute Fellow disputes Pritzker, others on climate change
A senior fellow at the Heartland Institute believes Gov. J.B. Pritzker used debunked climate-change claims in his inaugural address to Illinois.
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Is bankruptcy the only way Illinois can overcome 'unsustainable fiscal policy'? Economist thinks so
A former economics professor who is an adviser to the Heartland Institute believes the best way to overcome Illinois’ unsustainable debt is to do what no state has done since the 1930s: declare bankruptcy.
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Firearms safety course offered free to educators and staff during National Train a Teacher Day
Even a teacher and other school staff members who will never fire a gun should know how to handle one, a Chicago-area firearms instructor said during a recent interview.