After President Trump reduced the size of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, environmentalists feared the lands would be opened up…
Environmental restoration requires better incentives
A driving force behind technological innovation and prosperity is “creative destruction.” Old enterprises and technologies are constantly replaced by new…
Climate conscious consumers: study suggests better-informed consumers would reduce their climate footprint
Often, environmental challenges are the result of externalities—costs of a good or service that are not borne by the producer…
How far upstream should federal regulation extend?
Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers published their proposed rewrite of the “waters of the United…
Cleaning the commons
The ocean is a global commons. It’s owned by no one, controlled by no one, and open to all. Predictably,…
Property rights can resolve conflict over Chesapeake Bay oysters
The Chesapeake Bay is the nation’s largest estuary, with a watershed that includes six states. Because of its size and…
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…
Are invasive species a menace or a blessing? It depends.
Around the world, many ecosystems have been altered by “invasive species”—nonnative species that migrated or were transported to a new…
Can a president both shrink a national monument and create a new one?
President Trump’s decision last year to shrink Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument remains controversial and is…
How do we decide what environmental goals to fund?
If $10 million magically appeared and you got to decide how to allocate it between several environmental goals, how would…
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