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Adaptation key to dealing with climate change

[…] for regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gases by as much as 25% over 15 years. β€œAs president, and as a parent, IΒ refuseΒ to condemn our children to a planet that’s beyond fixing.” His all-too-familiar refrain comes on the heels of a House committeeΒ hearingβ€œExamining the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Process.” Testifying at the hearing, […]

Published on: June 5, 2014

The New Face of Free Market Environmentalism

[…] promote environmental quality. In recent years, PERC’s outreach team has done an impressive job of growing our audience. Likewise, our applied programs have spurred real-world demonstrations of free market environmentalism. But research is the starting point, it’s our core, and it will remain so under my leadership. What do you see as the biggest […]

Published on: May 14, 2014

Careful What You Ask For

[…] But neither ranchers nor environmentalists want the government out of land management. They just want the locus of management to be where they think they can more easily get what they want. Both sides should be careful what they ask for. Today’s Sagebrush Rebels want federal lands transferred to the states. But if they […]

Published on: April 30, 2014

A Tribal National Park

In first-of-its-kind legislation, the National Park Service and the Oglala Sioux have proposed the 133,000-acre South Unit of Badlands National Park be turned into a Tribal National Park. Can it be done?

Published on: April 25, 2014

A Peaceable Solution for the Range War Over Grazing Rights

[…] Grazing buyouts such as Heaton’s are quietly occurring in parts of the West and show how conflicts over federal land management can be resolved peacefully. Call it free-market environmentalism. And contrast it with a much more familiar storyβ€”one in which interest groups endlessly tussle over how federal lands should be managed and litigate at […]

Published on: April 23, 2014

Risky Hydraulic Fracturing?

[…] other potential source of groundwater contamination is methane leakage, and there is some evidence of methane in water supplies nearby hydraulic fracturing sites. Although the Duke University study found methane levels about 17 times greater than expected, the University of Texas at Austin report suggests that the higher methane levels may not be due […]

Published on: April 16, 2014