The President’s WOTUS executive order has begun the process for reforming the Clean Water Act, so that fewer people find themselves in the nightmare experienced by a Wyoming property owner threatened with $20 million in fines for building a pond.
Category: libertarian environmentalism
Species recovery depends on establishing better incentives
An Endangered Species Act regulation undermines incentives to conserve and recover species, while also harming property owners and the economy.
To protect endangered species, secure property rights
To protect endangered species, we need to rely more on property rights and less on regulation.
Limits on states’ influence over federal lands cut both ways
If red states must accept Congress’ decisions about federal lands, blue states do too.
Private environmental enforcement is no substitute for property rights
Private environmental enforcement has gone far beyond traditional nuisance principles and encourages abusive litigation.
Republicans propose a carbon tax
Last week, several prominent Republicans pitched a carbon tax to the Trump administration. The plan has four pillars, meant to … More
Does the Endangered Species Act compel states to protect species?
The Constitution does not permit the federal government to impose affirmative duties on states to regulate, not even to protect endangered species.
Is the rule of law a threat to environmental protection?
Would eliminating Chevron deference threaten environmental protection?
Is the regulation executive order an obstacle to deregulation?
Trump’s executive order requiring 2 regulations to be repealed for every 1 new one shouldn’t apply to deregulatory rules.
States cannot veto Congress’ decisions to put federal lands to productive uses
If Republican states have to accept Congress’ decisions to restrict the use of federal lands, Democratic states have to accept decisions to encourage productive use of these lands.
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