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How I Plan to Vote on Environmental Issues

Posted on by H. Sterling Burnett

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute.

“Elections have consequences,” former President Barack Obama once rightly said, and we are in an election cycle. In choosing whom to vote for, I always consider how closely a current officeholder has adhered to his or her constitutional oath while in office—has he or she voted as often as possible to limit the federal government to its constitutionally enumerated role?

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A Carbon-Reduction Plan an Economist Can Love—and One Invented It

Posted on by Jane Shaw Stroup

Robert Litterman, a well-known  economist —a “legend on Wall Street”— has an idea for spurring government and private investment into reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. Peter Coy, a New York Times columnist, discusses  the “carbon-linked bond”: “The problem Litterman is trying to solve is that many private investors are unwilling to invest heavily in climate solutions because…

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Monday Links: $20 to Address Climate Change?

Posted on by Jane Shaw Stroup
  • The median American is willing to pay $20 per year to address climate change. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed wouldn’t pay anything. H-T Steve Moore.
  • Meeting climate goals requires “a 42-fold increase in lithium demand, a 25-fold increase in graphite demand, a 21-fold increase in cobalt demand, a 19-fold increase in nickel demand, and a 7-fold increase in rare earth demand by 2040.” 
  • “The leftist green agenda is buying its way into the news.” The Associated Press is an example.
  • New California labor laws will make a natural method of wildfire prevention too expensive to continue. H-T Shawn Regan.
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    Are Conservation Leases the Key to Resolving Competing Demands on Public Lands?

    Posted on by Shawn Regan

    This guest post by Shawn Regan is a substantive analysis of the recent proposal by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management to allow leasing of public land for conservation purposes. Regan is vice president of research at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Mont.

    Most conservation issues involve balancing competing uses of natural resources. Should a parcel of land be developed for energy production, harvested for timber, grazed by livestock, managed as wildlife habitat, or set aside as open space? In a world of scarce resources, the main question is: How do people best resolve these competing demands?

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