Clarifying the Climate Conversation at UIUC
As students passed through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign quad during finals week, they were met with a different perspective on climate change.
Agriculture and conservation are mutually beneficial (ft. USDA NRCS Chief Aubrey Bettencourt)
District of Conservation host and CFACT policy analyst Gabriella Hoffman sits down with USDA NRCS Chief Aubrey Bettencourt to learn about her agency's priorities. Watch and listen!
Conservation, Not Panic: Texas CFACT Students Debunk Land-Usage Anxiety
CFACT Campus Representatives are continuing to prove that when it comes to environmental stewardship, facts—not fear—drive meaningful change. Three students in Texas recently brought that principle to life through the “Conservation, Not Panic!” campaign, each taking a unique approach to the same powerful message. To educate their fellow peers, Nicolas, Noah, and Sofia utilized colorful maps displaying the locations of land dedicated to conservation, owned by either land trusts, non-profit organizations, or individual landowners. At Sam Houston State University (SHSU), Nicolas Walker demonstrated the versatility and depth of the campaign by executing his event in two distinct settings. First, he hosted a classroom-style [...]
Utah Treasurer Marlo Oaks: SEC ‘financializing Mother Nature’ with Natural Asset Company rule
Utah Treasurer Marlo Oaks equated the SEC rule to list natural asset companies on the NYSE to "financializing Mother Nature."
Mike Fahner RIP: Unsung hero of Supreme Court property rights victory
As the year draws to a close, let us mark the passing of a scrappy, blue-collar California farmer and businessman who stood up to Big Government and Big Labor -- and took them down.
Property rights of growers vs. unions at the Supreme Court
A 46-year-old California regulation that requires farmers and packers of agricultural goods to allow union organizers on their property three hours a day for 120 days each year is being challenged.
WW ll fighter pilot’s widow determined to keep her husband’s plane
He constructed a plane on his property as a labor of love. Now busybodies want it hauled away as garbage.
Hudson Valley couple takes Green cabal to court to save their land
The cabal coveting their land took a piece-meal approach, using lawsuits and harassment to gobble up chunks of their dream.
Case dropped against Montana Senator who favors transferring federal land to states
Giving local communities throughout the rural West a greater voice over how millions of acres of federal lands are used drew the ire of a left-leaning, Washington, D.C.-based pressure group.
EPA reins in murky “WOTUS” rule
Gabriella Hoffman: President Obama’s EPA deemed all bodies of water—including puddles and ditches— as “navigable waters” subject to regulation under the WOTUS rule.
Dear Lord, what were you thinking?
CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen sings an ode to the benefits of federalism and other gifts from the founders in an article inspired by a jazz combo. He reports that the 2016 election was swung in "flyover country" out of a growing frustration with an ever-expanding federal government that had largely discarded the concept of federalism and was dictating too many aspects of our lives.
Florida Keys “takings” property rights case before Supreme Court
The children of a Korean War veteran and his wife are hoping to realize the dream of their late parents and build a home in the Florida Keys, thereby undoing a government “taking” of the family’s property.
Keystone is anti-hydrocarbon zealotry in microcosm
CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen laments the long, arduous battle to open the Keystone XL pipeline -- an action that would eliminate the need for 1,225 railroad tanker cars per day (450,000 per year) or 3,500 semi-trailer tanker trucks daily (1,275,000 annually) that currently transport oil to refineries, saving lives and costs and creating jobs in rural America. Driessen also recounts the many ways that fossil fuels enrich humanity -- from feed stocks for paints, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and other products to powering the manufacturing centers that create computers, smart phones, healthcare technologies, vehicles, and batteries.
Trumping the State Department
Former Reagan Administration official Scot Faulkner lauds President Trump's and Secretary of State Tillerson's plans to overhaul the U.S. State Department, which he calls not only one of the most bloated bureaucracies but also one of the least effective -- largely because of the internationalist -- almost anti-American -- attitude that prevails among senior officials. USAID alone has wasted over a trillion dollars on enriching dictators and useless projects that have not produced lasting results. It is way past time to clean house.
Virginia judge Jeffrey Parker tramples property rights
Martha Boneta: "It is my hope and prayer that no American citizen ever has to suffer the way we have on our family farm.”