by Shawn Regan This week, EPA director Lisa Jackson announced new plans for her agency to incorporate environmental justice into its decision making processes. Outlined in a guidance document released this week, the EPA will begin considering the disproportionate impact pollution has on low-income and minority communities when drafting new rules. Several factors have led toContinue reading “Environmental Justice or Gentrification?”
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Welcome to the PERColator
The PERColator is a collaborative blog from the Property & Environment Research Center (PERC) – the center for free market environmentalism. It is dedicated to exploring the notion that environmental quality is best defended by property rights and free markets. PERC espouses the conservation legacy of Aldo Leopold, who wrote that “conservation will ultimately boil down toContinue reading “Welcome to the PERColator”
Recycling Myths Revisited
Most claims of environmental good from recycling are myths. Recycling often uses more resources than it saves.
Free market environmentalism: Private sector better at preservation
Free Market Environmentalism is better at managing natural resources than the government. The oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico is a recent example.
FME: Exploring the Tough Questions
Young scholars from various discipline challenge the PERC founders of free market environmentalism on what works, what could work in the future and how to address large scale problems such as climate change, and also when markets are not the so. They will also discuss situations where markets might not work best or might not work at all.
Obama pushes TR’s top-down land management style
Obama’s Great Outdoor Initiative is not a bottom-up approach, but once again a top-down effort that will create more government programs and reduce local control.
New Frontiers in Western Land Institutions
The workshop focuses on using markets as tools for making land management decisions in both the public and private arena. How can federal agencies adopt market based-principles and how can we stimulate new markets for environmental amenities such as open space?
The Case Against the Hockey Stick
The “hockey stick” temperature graph is a mainstay of global warming science. A new book tells of one man’s efforts to dismantle it—and deserves to win prizes.
Rerun: “The Not So Wild, Wild West”
The basic idea was that bottom up, rather than top down, development of property rights, offered a useful tool for analyzing many resource issues.
Reflections on “Saving the Wilderness”
“Saving the Wilderness” explained how the managers of the Rainey Preserve used market relationships to enhance private land management and how they and similar managers could, if allowed, improve the management of government land, too.