Biden’s Green Agenda Meets Environmental Red Tape
Shawn Regan June 7, 2021A clean-energy future will require more than just spending money.
Popular Press
PERC fellows and staff regularly write op-eds and features for the popular press. Writing by our contributors appears in outlets ranging from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to national magazines to regional newspapers and online publications.
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Tate Watkins May 17, 2021Nudging people to dismiss risk by making it cheaper and easier for them to live in fire-prone areas helps no one.
How to Make America the Beautiful
Hannah Downey May 17, 2021The initial principles put forward by the Biden administration offer the opportunity to promote market-based environmentalism.
Reducing Wildfire Risk Requires Substantive Policy Changes
Catherine E. Semcer, Jack Smith May 14, 2021Engaging and diminishing the risk will require changes in how we govern and manage our forests.
Progress for the Bozeman Municipal Watershed Project
Holly Fretwell, Jack Smith May 14, 2021If the delays stemming from litigation can be reduced, the Forest Service can more easily do its job, stewarding resources we all use and enjoy.
The Federal Government Should Look to Private Partners to Tackle the Wildfire Crisis
Holly Fretwell, Jonathan Wood April 22, 2021The best way to seriously reduce the human, economic, and environmental devastation is to unleash private partners to perform needed forest restoration.
How to Prevent Wildfires Without More Government Interference
Hannah Downey April 19, 2021By reducing regulation and increasing market and partnership opportunities, policymakers have the opportunity to promote restoration for healthy forests that provide public conservation benefits while reducing the risk of megafires.
Yellowstone’s ‘Core’ Focus is a Winning Strategy
Shawn Regan April 13, 2021In Yellowstone, conservation starts with taking care of the people responsible for protecting the park’s resources.
California’s Wildfire Crisis
Shawn Regan April 7, 2021Bad forest management is at the root of the conflagrations.
Improving America’s Ecological Security Requires Public-Private Partnerships
Catherine E. Semcer March 29, 2021Efforts like the 30 by 30 initiative have the best chance of delivering the kind of conservation America needs when the government engages with the private sector as an equal partner.