From Saving Species to Empowering Bureaucrats
This article originally appeared in American Greatness on July 27, 2018. In 1973, the Endangered Species Act passed the U.S. Senate with a vote of 92-0 and the…
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U.S. Achieves Largest Decrease in Carbon Emissions…Without the Paris Climate Accord
As his final virtue-signaling performance as President, Barack Obama entered the United States into the Paris Climate Accord. The Obama administration celebrated the agreement, which curiously bypassed the traditional congressional…
CRC Praises Proposed Revisions to the Endangered Species Act
WASHINGTON, DC, (July 19, 2018)—The Capital Research Center (CRC) praised the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) proposed revisions to the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The Woes of the Western Sage Grouse: Environmental Canary in the Coal Mine
Ask environmental activists who have filed litigation under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) what they find so lacking in local conservation efforts and you will get some creative answers that…
The Woes of the Western Sage Grouse: Party Divisions
The Western Watersheds Project, which is headquartered in Idaho, has joined with other well-endowed environmental advocacy groups to file suit against the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management and U.S.
The Woes of the Western Sage Grouse: Weaponizing the Endangered Species Act
While there’s an argument to be made that the Gunnison sage grouse is a genetically distinct species from the greater sage grouse and has a different feather pattern and mating…
The Woes of the Western Sage Grouse: Is Reform on the Way?
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke now appears poised to move forward with regulatory reforms to the land use plans that could provide more latitude for natural resource development and ranching. The…
Required Donor Disclosure: A Threat to the First Amendment
Our democracy depends on vigorous discourse and the free exchange of ideas. The First Amendment guarantees our right to debate and advocate for the causes we choose without reprisal, both…
Zoned For Homelessness
Even though Seattle passed a head tax—literally a tax on employees—on the top 3 percent of companies in the Emerald City, unions and activists think Amazon needs to be…
The Wind God’s New Clothes: The Electrical Revolution
The Wind God’s New Clothes (Full Series) The Electrical Revolution | Limits to Wind and Solar| A Fair Weather Solution | Subsidized Failures Summary: In recent years,…