Once again, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is faced with opposition to its way of dealing with wild horses on public rangeland. For many decades, wild horses and burros have proliferated on public lands—descendants of escaped horses going back as far as the years of Spanish exploration, plus horses lost or abandoned by settlers…
Category: ENVIRONMENT
The Grumpy Economist Considers Climate Change
“The economic effects of climate change are dwarfed by growth,” writes John H. Cochrane on his blog, “The Grumpy Economist.” He proceeds to point out: “Take even worst-case estimates that climate change will lower GDP by 5-10% in the year 2100. Compared to growth, that’s couch change. At our current tragically low 2% per year, without…
The Coming War against Meat
“A small but highly influential contingent of liberal extremists in our media has fired the opening salvos” in a war against meat, says Gary Taustine in the New York Post. (Hat tip to John Baden). The first salvo was a New York Times article saying that the meat-packing industry was racist because its workers workers…
Biden’s Land Management Appointee Gets a Grilling from Republican Senators
In a hearing June 8, Republicans challenged Tracy Stone-Manning’s nomination as head of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Interior Department bureau is in charge of cattle grazing, energy development, and logging on about 245 million acres of publicly owned, mostly western land. Manning-Stone is a long-time environmentalist who is a senior advisor on…
More Evidence of Forced Labor in China and Africa for ‘Green’ Energy
Reports from Sheffield Hallam University in England and the International Energy Agency strengthen the case that China is forcing its minority Uighur population to produce solar panels. Meanwhile, children as young as seven years old are mining for cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under dangerous conditions; the mined cobalt is processed in…
Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Really Dead?
West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has asked President Biden to reverse his decision canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, reports the MetroNews of West Virginia. Manchin is the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. As a Democrat in an evenly divided Senate, he has substantial political leverage. In a February 9…