October 16, 2020 “Clean” energy’s dirty little secrets Solar and wind farms also need 100 times the land area of fossil fuel-generated electricity, and these resulting changes in land use can have…
February 12, 2020 Green New Deal: Destroyer of economies and the environment The Green New Deal is anything but ‘clean’ or ‘green.’ Even the relatively modest numbers of solar and wind installations in the United States…
November 17, 2019 Mountain Bikers clash with wildlife in southwestern Colorado A few proposed changes, however, would prohibit mountain biking on some trails in an attempt to reduce disturbances of big game like elk and…
November 14, 2019 Even in pot-friendly states, illegal grows are wreaking environmental havoc …the forest gives way to a sprawling grow and camp site. It’s typical in shape: terraced plots carved erratically into a hillside scared by…
June 8, 2019 Yellowstone: Mountain bikes pose “grave threat” to grizzly habitat …cycling advocates have claimed that riding their bikes in grizzly country does not cause serious impacts—certainly none worse, they insist, than hikers, horseback riders…
April 26, 2019 “Green New Deal” would be disaster for the environment The report, by American Enterprise Institute scholar Benjamin Zycher, claims the Green New Deal championed by many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates would come with…
April 17, 2019 BLM permit withdrawn for monster solar installation in Nevada desert The California renewable energy developer had planned to build a $5 billion, 2-gigawatt solar power plant north of Las Vegas using 10 “power towers”…
March 20, 2019 Court brief shows California and Oregon broke law with Klamath Dam removal plan “Unfortunately…the dam removal snowball continues to grow in size and political heft, as the federal and state agencies involved in this enterprise remain unconcerned…
November 19, 2018 Conservation impossible without property rights Federal lands are, on average, in worse environmental condition than private lands and produce much less economic activity. That’s because management of federal lands,…
June 22, 2017 Forest Service uses double-standard in non-permitted ‘Rainbow Family’ Malheur gathering He said the Forest Service would punish ranchers if they ignored permit requirements and tapped a spring for drinking water like the Rainbow Family…
