Sometimes those mistakes may be embarrassing, like when EPA threatened Andy Johnson and his family with $20 million in fines based on an errant assumption that water flowed uphill. Other times they’ll result in rules that undermine the values regulations…
The same incentives that make historic preservation laws counterproductive also make much environmental regulation just as ineffective. Jonathan Wood Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) HISTORIC PRESERVATION LAWS LEAD TO DETERIORATION, SO DOES INVOLUNTARY CONSERVATION In Naperville, a suburb…
The mining company was in the process of modifying its permit after state regulators invalidated some of its stream restoration procedures. A state environmental hearing board ruled that the DEP “erroneously” allowed mining in areas with improper stream-preservation systems in…
And while you ponder that question perhaps you can also take a guess as to who didn't have to take a haircut on their water allocations this year...if you guessed 'all the pet projects of California's environmentalists', then you're absolutely correct. Tyler…