Billions of birds are killed every year in the United States, many of which are protected by the Migratory Bird … More
Category: overcriminalization
Will sea otters soon be returned to San Francisco bay?
California sea otters have come a long way from the 50-member population discovered off Big Sur in the early 1900s, … More
Insuring a future for apex predators
Where wildlife poses risks to those who live and work near them, people predictably take steps to reduce their liability. … More
Will the Supreme Court decide whether the Clean Water Act applies to groundwater?
In February, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the federal Clean Water Act regulates pollutants that migrate through groundwater. … More
As wildfires become more catastrophic, are we overlooking free-market ways to lower the cost of reducing them?
Like many people, I’ve been monitoring, with dread, updates on the wildfires burning in California. The Camp Fire, which is … More
If the goal is to guide human action, environmental markets work better than indecipherable regulations
One of the greatest strengths of free market environmentalism approaches to environmental problems is that they facilitate the development of … More
In 2018, will the federal government be an ally in the fight against overcriminalization?
In this year’s pre-Christmas news dump, the Department of Interior announced it was reversing the agency’s prior interpretation of the … More
Protecting the environment does not require us to abandon the rule of law
This week, briefing began in WildEarth Guardians v. U.S. Department of Justice, a case of critical importance to anyone concerned about … More
How should environmentalists measure virtue?
An old criticism of socialism is that it measures virtue by how generous someone is with other people’s money. Many … More
The inevitable overregulation and overcriminalization of environmental law
A four-year battle between the federal government and Duarte Nursery over the farm’s plowing of a field to plant wheat—for … More
