Alaska’s Tongass National Forest may be exempted from Clinton-era roadless rule
The Roadless Rule banned all logging, commercial development, and road construction in Tongass, the largest national forest in the United States.
CFACT official comment to Department of Energy on dishwashers
Despite impressive advances in technology in recent decades, American households are now saddled with dishwashers that are substantially inferior to those available 20 or even 30 years ago.
Trump water reforms a relief for rural communities
Had the Obama "WOTUS" rule not been repealed, landowners would have had to get permits from federal bureaucrats before making any significant modifications to their property.
EPA still abusing wetlands regulation
Bad habits are hard to shed. And if you are a bureaucrat at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who has become accustomed to throwing the agency’s considerable weight around, why turn over a new leaf?
Trump EPA tosses Obama methane regulations
A boost for American energy independence.
UN “sustainability” conference in Salt Lake pushing dangerous agenda
Participants lucky enough to attend the session on "inclusive" cities and communities will have the opportunity to partake of such delicacies as “equality and social cohesion,” “place-making,” and “gender responsive urban and territorial development.”
Trump ESA reforms emphasize species recovery over endless red tape
The Endangered Species Act morphed into a powerful legal instrument that environmentalists adroitly used to shut down any activity – farming, ranching, logging, mining, energy extraction – they didn’t like.
Raging Western wildfires underscore federal land mismanagement
Are state and local governments better able to conserve our forests than federal bureaucrats?
Trump EPA overturns Obama’s veto of Alaska’s Pebble Mine
America needs these minerals and metals.
Transportation boondoggles rip off taxpayers
Mega-projects can also be grotesquely wasteful.
Trump-appointed World Bank head to continue anti-fossil-fuel policies
The World Bank’s new chief, former Treasury and State Department official David Malpass, is showing every indication that he’s prepared to rubber-stamp the bank’s lending policies, many of which promise to harm the very people they are supposed to help.
Landowners in Fauquier County, Virginia battle severe restrictions on their property rights
The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a radical overhaul of its existing Rural Lands Comprehensive Plan that would trample on local property rights.
Grassroots protests help bring down Oregon climate tax
Thousands descended on the state Capitol in tractors, trucks, cars, and on foot to express their outrage over a pending climate initiatives that would have imposed disproportionate and unbearable burdens on Oregon’s rural communities.
San Francisco Fed promotes “climate-adaptation” loans
The Wall Street Journal reports that over 30 central banks worldwide, excluding the U.S. Federal Reserve, are now members of the Network for Greening the Financial System, created in 2017.
Supreme Court dishes property owners a Fifth Amendment victory
The ruling restores rights under the Fifth Amendment, opening federal courts to property owners seeking “just compensation” for the taking of their property by government.