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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

A Disastrous Electricity Gap in Britain

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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.

Don’t Recycle, Refurbish

Photo of a Walmart Supercenter taken by Caique Morais for Unsplash.

Walmart joined the list of retailers who are refurbishing items and selling them at a discount at their stores. On Retail Dive.

American Thinker profiles John Goodman.

John Goodman

John Dale Dunn describes the policy achievements of John Goodman, founder of the institute that sponsors this Liberty and Ecology blog.

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Germans increasing use of lignite (which is dirtier than coal)

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Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution site sparks discussion of Germany’s apparent choice of lignite over nuclear.