Category: The Environmental Blog
Plea: Don’t Force the Post Office into an Electric-Vehicle Boondoggle
“The Postal Service should not be a test dummy for the administration’s speculative goals and it is an insult to taxpayers to treat it this way.” So writes Guy Caruso on RealClearEnergy. Here’s what’s happening: The Biden administration is trying to persuade the Postal Service (USPS) to invest in more electric vehicles. In March the…
Think Globally, Act Locally: Vines Are Killing Trees on George Washington Parkway
A long-time resident of Alexandria, Virginia, has castigated the National Park Service (NPS) for failing to protect the trees along the George Washington Parkway. In a Washington Post op-ed, John R. Powers writes that vines are strangling trees. “In 2021, the NPS budget was $2.8 billion, but not a penny was spent on the maintenance of…
Did You Know a Debate Is Brewing over Conservation Easements?
They are more popular than ever but also controversial, writes Alex Brown for Stateline, a journalistic initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts: “[T]he growing interest in preserving privately held land has sparked a fierce debate between supporters who say such efforts guarantee environmental protections and critics who say they take away individual property rights.” Conservation…
Pending World Food Crisis Shows Fallacies of Organic Farming
“Organic farming produces between 29% to 44% less food than conventional methods,” says environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg. “It therefore requires as much as 78% more land than conventional agriculture and the food produced costs 50% more—all while generating no measurable increase in human health or animal welfare.” Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Lomborg says: “The…