Tag Energy and the Environment

As Fireplace Season Approaches, Let’s Create ‘Constitution Forests’

As Fireplace Season Approaches, Let’s Create “Constitution Forests” With the quantity and severity of wildfires rising dramatically, it’s time to rethink administration insurance policies for our nationwide forest system. A brand new examine by the American Geophysical Union, for example,…

Give States Management Over Public Land Out West

Give States Management Over Public Land Out West The federal authorities owns nearly half the land within the American West—even California is some 46 p.c federal land. When the choice was made to maintain most of this land below federal…

Does Wildlife Depend upon Authorities?

Does Wildlife Depend upon Authorities? On March 14th the Nationwide Wildlife Refuge System, presently a 95-million-acre community of lands and waters, celebrates its 113th anniversary. One in every of my favourite locations, the Bear River Fowl Refuge in Field Elder…

Obama’s Power Doctrine Is Proving Disastrous

Obama’s Power Doctrine Is Proving Disastrous President Obama not too long ago recommended that the Center East is a area to be prevented and that the beautiful transformation of America’s oil and fuel sector – the shale revolution – providentially…

Did You Know that John Muir Needed to Drive Indians Out of the Yosemite Valley?

Did You Know that John Muir Needed to Drive Indians Out of the Yosemite Valley? On March 1, Yosemite Nationwide Park modified distributors, dumping Delaware North in favor of Aramark, with a $2 billion concession contract for the subsequent 15…

Dakota Entry—Authorized, Helpful & Essential

Dakota Entry—Authorized, Helpful & Essential With its latest choice to disclaim the short-term injunction requested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the U.S. Court docket of Appeals affirmed what supporters of the Dakota Entry Pipeline have maintained fervently all alongside:…

The Highway Trump Ought to Take to Higher Infrastructure

The Highway Trump Ought to Take to Higher Infrastructure President-elect Trump promised to steer an extra $1 trillion value of recent infrastructure into the U.S. economic system over the following ten years. Critics object that this can’t be performed with…