After the gray wolf was delisted as endangered and hunters brought a lawsuit, the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources allowed a wolf hunt in Wisconsin in February—the first since 2014. Its impact is still reverberating, says Field & Stream. The hunt was called off after three days (it was supposed to extend a week) because…
Category: The Environmental Blog
API Endorses Carbon Pricing, But Biden Doesn’t
The American Petroleum Institute, the leading U. S. trade association for the oil and gas industry, has changed its position on carbon pricing. On March 25, it announced that it now supports “sensible legislation that prices carbon across all economic sectors while avoiding regulatory duplication.” The API’s statement of principles on carbon pricing set some…
Curbside Recycling Is Costly—So Make Producers Pay?
There’s a growing clamor for producers of plastic packaging to pay the costs of recycling their materials. On March 25, two Democratic congressmen from California and Oregon introduced a bill that would make such “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) mandatory across the country, reports Waste Dive. That bill follows efforts within at least seven states to…
Manipulated Science: Not Even a ‘Noble Lie’
Sterling Burnett lays out the manipulation of science that perpetuates fear that we are in a “climate crisis.”(On TownHall.) “We are constantly being warned by activists, politicians, and some climate scientists that we face a climate crisis; that if humanity collectively doesn’t alter its lifestyle and consumption patterns now, the world will end in 10…
Biden’s ’30 by 30′ Plan: 30 percent of U.S. Land ‘Protected’ by 2030
President Biden plans to raise the percentage of land “protected” in the United States from about 12 percent to 30 percent over the next nine years. That would mean protecting an additional area more than four times the size of California. From the White House fact sheet: “The order commits to the goal of conserving…
Massachusetts on a ‘Fool’s Errand’?
At 5 million acres, Massachusetts represents .0021 percent of the United States’ acreage (and an infinitesimal portion of global land) but it is marching ahead with a plan to commit itself to zero emissions from fossil fuels by 2050. In January, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill to that effect. Governor Charles Baker sent it…