September 2, 2019 Public Land Expansion Syndrome swamping southern Utah’s rural communities It is time to stop the fallacy that a tourist driven economy is cleaner and has less impact on the land than other industries….
July 30, 2019 Western leaders denounce “activist” relisting of Yellowstone grizzly as endangered “The court-ordered relisting of the grizzly was not based on science or facts, but was rather the result of excessive litigation pursued by radical…
January 16, 2019 Farmers Under Fire: Trial Lawyers’ Attack on Agriculture “On paper it looks like they’re suing Smithfield Foods, but the farmer is the one on trial,” Overman said. “Once the trial is over…
December 13, 2017 Era of federal ‘sue and settle’ deals is over, and the greens are freaked About 20 years ago, government agencies stopped collecting data on these settlements, so they could no longer report to Congress on the amount of…
December 2, 2017 The wealth-destroying insanity of modern environmentalism The irony and illogic of the Guardians’ nuisance lawsuit defied belief. A group ostensibly dedicated to protecting nature was attacking and disabling a company…
November 6, 2017 Panicked enviros throwing everything at the courts to see what sticks Remember, these enviro groups need crises to keep the donations flowing, but if sage grouse enjoy healthy habitat and robust, growing populations, there is…
October 25, 2017 Environmentalist-driven policies are destroying forests, agricultural lands “Time and again, we see vivid boundaries between the young, healthy, growing forests managed by state, local, and private landholders, and the choked, dying,…
October 18, 2017 ‘Equal Access to Justice’ abuses impede responsible forest management The act was passed in 1980 to help veterans with disabilities pursue claims against the federal government. Today it has been expanded, largely by…
October 17, 2017 EPA chief issues new directive to end abusive ‘sue and settle’ deals The EPA’s practice of handling lawsuits by using ‘consent decrees’ and ‘settlement agreements’ has violated norms of transparency and given outside groups–some of which…
August 29, 2017 EPA Chief Pruitt demands science over activism, and enviros hate him for it Some activists want to ban virtually all pesticides. Although chlorpyrifos meets the EPA’s extremely stringent safety standards, two such groups nevertheless petitioned EPA to…
