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This blog is about protecting the environment using the tools of economics. Your blog manager is Jane Shaw Stroup, a former senior fellow of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC).

We are grateful to the Goodman Institute for providing this opportunity.

NEWS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT

Rare-earth mineral deposit is found near the Kiruna iron mine in Sweden.

Kiruna iron mine image by Peter Prokosch, licensed under Creative Commons.

A Swedish company has found a major deposit of rare earth minerals—critical for renewable energy and currently provided mostly by Chinese suppliers. But the discovery’s impact on supplies will be long in coming, and the West lacks the technology to make them usable, says Robert Bryce on Substack.

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Anthony Watts Critiques USA Today Story on ‘Climate Disasters’

Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay.

Once again the mainstream media have made excessive claims about climate change’s impact. No, says Anthony Watts of the Heartland Institute, “the inflation-adjusted costs of weather-related catastrophes have declined over the last 20 years as a percentage of GDP.”

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Now, About Biden’s Plan to Make Solar Panels in the U.S., not China . . .

Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay.

David Iaconangelo cites a “landmark study” in Nature that says removing panel manufacture from China to the U.S.will make it “difficult or impossible” to meet Paris climate goals. He writes in E&E News; the study can be found here.

How to Save Water in the Drought-Ridden West

Image of Hoover Dam by Egor Shitikov from Pixabay.

“Markets offer a means to help allocate increasingly scarce water,” says the introduction to PERC’s new collection of essays, The Future of Water Markets: Obstacles and Opportunities.

Scaremongering on the BBC

Susan Crockford, a zoologist who specializes in polar bears, critiques David Attenborough’s new BBC show as “‘climate change’ propaganda marketed as ‘entertainment.’ Buyer beware.” H-T to Stephen Moore.

A Disastrous Electricity Gap in Britain

Image by Hebi B. from Pixabay

Trying to both “keep the lights on and cut carbon” is proving impossible, says James McSweeney in “British Energy Planning (A Horror Story).” Great Britain faces an “electricity gap,” thanks to “quango nonsense, bureaucratic head-burying and clueless ministerial direction,” he writes in The Critic.