Outdoor enthusiasts can fund wildlife conservation, say Tate Watkins and Jack Smith in their report “A Better Way to Fund Conservation and Recreation,” published by PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center. Already, taxes and fees on hunting and fishing provide nearly three times the funding for parks and public lands provided by the famed Land…
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Last Oregon Coal-Fired Plant Closes . . . Trump’s Valuable Changes to ‘Habitat’
HEADLINES: The last coal-fired power plant operating within Oregon has closed down (20 years ahead of schedule). OPB News. HT-E&E News . . . Why President Trump’s revisions of “critical habitat” matter. At CEI . . . Are we getting closer to a carbon tax? FERC indicates it is open to approving a tax if…
Democrats Discover Nuclear . . . The Real Meaning of ‘Habitat’ . . . How Bluebirds Were Saved . . . A Private Jet for Harrison Ford?
News today: The Democrats have discovered nuclear energy, says Robert Bryce on ClimateChangeWatch . . . It’s all in a word—habitat! Shawn Regan of PERC explains the benefits of a Trump deregulation . . . R. J. Smith explains how private efforts rescued bluebirds in the United States. Angela Logomasini interviews R. J. for the…
Medical Waste Grows, Solar Energy Destroys Habitat, Skeptics Reappear. . .
Medical waste from coronavirus is mounting. BBC: Renewable energy is eating up wildlife habitat. HT Benny Peiser. Wikipedia deletes list of scientists who are skeptics on apocalyptic climate change; JoNova retrieves their names. Bjorn Lomborg: How we can reduce indoor air pollution in Ghana.
Why Can’t Conservation Groups Buy or Lease Federal Land?
By and large,, conservation groups in the United States cannot buy or lease federal land or water rights and apply them to conservation goals. That is, they cannot obtain cattle grazing rights to let bison roam; “mining rights” to leave the minerals in the ground; timber leases to stop cutting trees; or federally supplied water…
The Snail Darter Is Back
Remember the snail darter (or, more likely, hearing about it)? In 1975, the Endangered Species Act temporarily halted construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River because it would endanger the habitat of the snail darter, a three-inch fish (shown above). The snail darter will be taken off the list, reports Dino Grandoni…