Kevin Dayaratna, PhD., is a chief statistician, data scientist, and senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis.
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As delegates at the 2025 United Nations Climate Conference in Brazil enter their final week of negotiations, the global climate regime finds itself at a… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering its 2009 “endangerment finding” that six “greenhouse gases,” including carbon dioxide and methane, are causing or contributing to climate… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Donald Trump seeks to restore America’s “gold standard science”—a science that’s rooted in transparency, peer review, reproducibility, and freedom from political pressure. It’s time… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Ever since the start of Joe Biden’s presidency, curbing climate change has been a fundamental component of his energy policy agenda. During the spring, for… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
Policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to minimize the effects of climate change should be guided by the best available science. A new research paper… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Climate alarmists, including President Joe Biden, have consistently said that America could look forward to worsening hurricanes and extreme weather, thanks to climate change. In… Read More
SocietyCommentary
During 2019 and 2020, the nation saw a shocking 30% surge in homicide rates, the most substantial single-year increase in more than a century. This… Read More
EnergyCommentary
In stark contrast to the bucolic vision of harvesting energy from the wind, New Jersey is witnessing harsh political reality. Gov. Phil Murphy has approved… Read More
Health CareCommentary
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1 offers a unique opportunity to break with past pandemic policies and announce that we… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Even though policy should be based on accurate data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is failing to accurately justify its guidance that vaccinated… Read More
EconomyCommentary
When President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law three days before Christmas in 2017, he implemented one of the most… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The social cost of carbon is a climate economics construct used to quantify the damages associated with carbon dioxide emissions. The Biden administration wants to… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The “social cost of carbon” is a calculation that the Biden administration is looking to use to justify stringent regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Missouri… Read More
EnergyCommentary
On his very first day in office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order resurrecting the Obama-era social cost of carbon, intended to quantify the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A new Heritage Foundation special report analyzes the COVID-19 responses of 10 countries, with varying levels of economic freedom, to better understand which policies might… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Professor Neil Ferguson, who led the COVID-19 modeling team at Imperial College in London, resigned May 5 from his government advisory role after breaking the… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Climate change soon will constitute “a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters,” one government study predicted. By 2020, according to… Read More
EnergyCommentary
If someone asked you to describe the Green New Deal, what would you say? According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., it’s a “bold idea” that… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Implementing the Green New Deal resolution would place significant though hard-to-quantify costs on Americans, according to a preliminary analysis by The Heritage Foundation that hints… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has been one of the strongest and boldest reforms of President Donald Trump’s first term in office. According to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
What would you buy with $26,000? A new car? A year of college tuition? A down payment on a house? This is not a hypothetical… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Congress is set to unveil more details of its tax reform proposal this week, and many people fear that the death tax—also known as the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Since the release of the GOP’s long-awaited tax reform plan, a flurry of commentators have criticized it, saying it is a regressive plan that will… Read More
Health CareCommentary
With the health care debate currently dominating headlines, many Americans may be unaware of a more subtle issue that is affecting the U.S. health care… Read More
Health CareCommentary
As the struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare with a plan that will decrease fast-rising and exorbitant premiums as well as increasing consumer choice rages on,… Read More
EnergyCommentary
President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an “energy independence” executive order on energy and climate policy. One provision of this order pertains to the social… Read More
EnergyCommentary
American lawmakers would be wise to embrace the ongoing energy revolution. The Baker Hughes oil rig count for the United States increased on Friday for… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing to head up the Environmental Protection Agency provided a glimpse into how the agency would operate under new… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Last August, while Congress was out of session and most people were on vacation, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposal for a new rule… Read More
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In the recent State of the Union address, President Obama promised to act alone on his political agenda if Congress didn’t go along, and he… Read More
