In this year’s pre-Christmas news dump, the Department of Interior announced it was reversing the agency’s prior interpretation of the…
A river walks into a courtroom . . .
The title above may sound like the setup to a mediocre joke. But, this fall, the Deep Green Resistance, which…
Wildfires are made worse by the failure to foresee the unintended consequences of environmental decisions
As fires continue to rage in California, more people are asking why extreme wildfires are seemingly more common than they…
President Trump’s long-awaited national monument decision triggers wave of lawsuits
Last week, President Trump issued two long-awaited proclamations reducing the size of two controversial national monuments in Utah. The same…
Environmental bureaucracy undermines the trust needed to promote conservation
Trust is important, especially so for conservation. Successful conservation depends on the collaboration of many people: environmentalists, scientists, property owners,…
Trophy hunting decision highlights the most important and rarely asked conservation question
Update: The Trump administration has announced that it is extending the ban to all African countries, substantially expanding the prior…
Matching the Endangered Species Act’s incentives with its ethics
It looks increasingly likely that Congress will attempt to overhaul the Endangered Species Act next year. Rob Bishop, chairman of…
Lacking consensus, monument designations breed endless conflict
One major shortcoming of relying on the political process to achieve environmental objectives (or most any other objective) is that…
Pipelines v. Property Rights
As fracking has lowered the price of natural gas, the pipelines required to bring the gas to market have, predictably,…
What Ghostbusters can teach us about environmental regulation
Is the best movie of my childhood an unintentional allegory on the pitfalls of environmental regulation? If you haven’t watched…
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