Scrapping Electric Car Tax Credits
Many experts assert that electric cars should play a crucial role in fighting global warming and transitioning the world to a sustainable energy future. To help speed this transition, the U.S. Congress...
View ArticleCan Red and Purple States Go Green?
What’s red, blue, and purple all over? The United States. America is divided into Democrat and Republican-dominated states, as well as some mixed states—blue, red, and purple states, respectively. Two...
View ArticleCombatting Climate Change with Human Behavior
Humans make so many decisions in a day that they contract “decision fatigue.” In fact, President Barack Obama famously saved his daily decision-making energy by limiting what he would eat and wear. In...
View ArticleFlawed Rules Ensnare Marine Mammals
When accidentally caught in a fishing net, drowning whales and dolphins can experience high levels of stress, pain, and suffering. But international conservation standards are not doing enough to...
View ArticleCould the Common Law Help Combat Climate Change?
Since the 1970s, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act—and the regulations issued under their authority—have formed the bedrock of U.S. environmental protections. But as the Trump Administration...
View ArticleEPA Will Say Anything to Avoid Addressing Climate Change
Pay no attention to the premature deaths behind the curtain. That is the upshot of the analysis supporting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule,...
View ArticleIs Private Governance a Viable Alternative to Climate Regulation?
“We are still in.” This is the message that 3,629 state, local, and private sector leaders from across the United States wished to underscore in an open letter to the international community in the...
View ArticleBeefing Up Regulations
Environmentalists and farmers will argue about pollution regulation until the cows come home, with environmentalists seeking more regulations and farmers seeking more exemptions. But how can...
View ArticleAutomakers Prefer Self-Regulation to Regulatory Uncertainty
Four of the world’s largest automakers recently agreed to sign a joint framework, negotiated with California, to increase the fuel efficiency of their vehicles voluntarily. The agreement comes roughly...
View ArticleCurbing the Spotted Lanternfly
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has an important message for anyone who comes across a spotted lanternfly: kill it, dispose of it, and report it. The spotted lanternfly is an invasive insect...
View ArticleWhere’s the Plant-Based Beef?
Eating less meat may not only be good for your health; it may also be good for the planet’s health. In a recent paper, Lingxi Chenyang of the University of Michigan and Yale Law School, has proposed...
View ArticleBringing Home the Bacon on Climate Change
When buying a cheeseburger, the consumer might not realize that it actually costs society more than the price listed on the menu. In reality, each patty also bears unpriced costs from greenhouse gas...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration Takes Aim at Migratory Birds
The United States has signed treaties to end wars and to ban the use of nuclear weapons—and on four occasions throughout the 20th Century, it has also done so to protect migratory birds. But those...
View ArticleCan Regulation Promote Environmental Justice?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with protecting human health and the environment. Some advocates argue, however, that not everyone is protected equally. Low-income communities...
View ArticleThe Clean Water Act Might Just Survive This Latest Attack
The most important Clean Water Act case in more than a decade was recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund are clean water values that have...
View ArticleResurrecting the Wild Turkey
Each November, families gather across the United States for the Thanksgiving holiday and collectively they consume about 45 million turkeys. At the same time, another approximately 7 million wild...
View ArticleMany Shades of the Green New Deal
Inspired by the activism of 16-year-old Swedish youth Greta Thunberg, the global youth climate strikes of September 2019 were the largest climate-related protests in history. In the United States,...
View ArticleBreaking Up Big Ag Requires Reasonable Antitrust Enforcement
In 2007, food sovereignty activists from around the world convened in Sélingué, Mali to write the Declaration of Nyéléni. That declaration asserts that activists should seek to democratize the flows of...
View ArticleStanding Up to Climate Change
Climate change activists have found they cannot turn to the Trump Administration for help, and Congress is gridlocked. Can these activists turn to the only remaining branch of government, the judicial...
View ArticleEPA Likely to Move Soon on ‘Secret Science’ Rulemaking
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to self-impose stringent new limits on the use of science in its regulatory decisions. The agency has proposed a new rule that would prohibit...
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