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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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    What’s This Chevron Precedent and Why Does It Matter?

    Posted on by Jane Shaw Stroup

    The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case (Loper Bright Enterprises et. al vs. Raimondo) that will  revisit a past Supreme Court decision known as the “Chevron precedent.” If the Court overturns or modifies that precedent, it would weaken agencies’ power to regulate. A group of New Jersey fishing companies has sued the…

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    Tuesday’s Links

    Posted on by Jane Shaw Stroup
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