February 22, 2017 Endangered Species Act: Poster child for backwards incentives What if those incentives were reversed? What if landowners were paid to create and preserve habitat, or better yet, to raise endangered species as…
January 7, 2017 Progressive elites seek to ‘socially engineer’ rural Americans out of existence Consider the case of the late John Rapanos, a hard-working, patriotic Michigan developer who, as the son of Greek immigrants, was living the American…
December 29, 2016 EPA: Extreme Politics Agency “Government employees and contractors at universities appear to be rubber-stamping EPA’s distorted claims,” Milloy wrote in the forward of his new book, which has…
December 26, 2016 Reversal of fortune? Small miner hopeful Trump will veto EPA block on Alaska mine In February 2014, the EPA took the unusual action of blocking a mine before the project owner applied for a development permit. Trump win…
December 19, 2016 OPINION: Federal land ‘management’ a sham If you think forest management is any better, check out the red and green mosaic that covers most of the West. The red is…
December 15, 2016 Six Western counties take Obama to court over exclusionary BLM planning rule The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Utah, involves Kane County, Big Horn County, Wyo.; Chaves County, New Mexico; Custer County,…
December 9, 2016 House committee slams ‘absurd’ USDA catfish inspection program Compared to the $700,000 that the FDA previously spent annually on inspecting catfish, the USDA has spent nearly $20 million developing its program and…
December 8, 2016 BLM gets blowback on new rules which limit free speech rights The BLM Colorado office received some 560 comments by Monday’s deadline in the case of supplementary rules the agency says it is proposing to…
December 5, 2016 Trump EPA plans leave top bureaucrat ‘anxious’ about transition Trump targeted EPA for criticism on the campaign trail, pledging to roll its authority back to the states, and has questioned the science behind…
December 5, 2016 Americans reject radical Obama ‘environmental’ agenda, want it rolled back Federal land, resource and environmental agencies have unleashed tsunamis of regulations in recent years, and President Obama is poised to issue many more before…