Author Archive for: Tracy Mehan

Who Owns the Environment? Part I

Tracy Mehan, March 23, 2019, Religion and Nature, Christopher Costello, environmentalism, fisheries, Henry Butler, IFQs, Individual Fishing Quotas, ITQ, Jesus, John Baden, nature, original sin, PERC, private property, Religion and environment, resource management, sustainability, sustainable fisheries, sustainable forestry, sustainable forests, Terry Anderson, tragedy of the commons, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Umberto Eco, who owns nature, 0

In Umberto Eco’s medieval mystery, The Name of the Rose, there is a famous scene in which Franciscans, Dominicans...

Who Owns the Environment? Part II

Tracy Mehan, March 23, 2019, Featured Article, Religion and Nature, Aristotle, Brent Haglund, Cicero, earth, environmental protection, environmentalism, Founding Fathers, John Locke, Lynn Scarlett, Margaret Thatcher, Matthew Mehan, medieval church, Nature Conservancy, PERC, philosophy, private property, public property, Sandy County Foundation, state of nature, 0

I recently posted an item here, on Conservefewell.org, attempting to reconcile rights to and in private property with the...

There Is No Such Thing As A “Rain Tax”

Tracy Mehan, March 15, 2015, Water Issues, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Montgomery County, Rain Tax, stormwater, stormwater management fee, 0

The water sector seems to be completely immobilized by the canard that a stormwater management fee tied to impermeable...

There Is No Such Thing As A “Rain Tax”

Tracy Mehan, March 15, 2015, Water Issues, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Montgomery County, Rain Tax, stormwater, stormwater management fee, 1

The water sector seems to be completely immobilized by the canard that a stormwater management fee tied to impermeable...

Pope Francis and the Environment

Tracy Mehan, January 19, 2015, Religion and Nature, Art Laffer, Catholic teaching on the environment, John Paul II, Man betrays God by destroying environment, Pope and climate change, Pope Francis, protecting nature, Redemptor Hominis, 0

Pope Francis drew the attention of The New York Times during his recent trip to Manila prompting the headline,...

How to fill the water infrastructure investment gap in one easy lesson

Tracy Mehan, July 1, 2014, Uncategorized, Water Issues, Clean Water Act, CWSRF, ELI, financing, infrastructure gap, Michael Curley, Safe Drinking Water Act, State Revolving Fund, water finance policy, WIFIA, 1

We should all offer thanks for a new book by Environmental Law Institute visiting scholar Michael Curley, a former...

Humanity’s Relationship with the Natural World

Tracy Mehan, June 13, 2014, Conservative Conservationism, conservationism, Daniel Botkin, Donald Worster, Emma Marris, Humanity's Relationship with the Natural World, Nature in the 21st Century, Oliver Houck, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, The Phenomenon of Man, The Trouble with Wilderness, William Cronon, 0

Noted ecologist Daniel Botkin provides a remarkable description of the natural phenomenon which is also the title of his...

Land Trusts as a Sign of American Vitality

Tracy Mehan, May 22, 2014, Free-Market Environmentalism, Alexis de Tocqueville, Bill Birchard, Charles Eliot, conservation, conservation easements, environmental stewardship, free-market environmentalism, Land Trust Alliance, Potomac Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, Wendy Koch, wildlife habitat, 0

The growth of the private land trust movement in the United States has often been cited as a premier...

Honoring One of America’s Great Conservation Leaders – Bill Reilly

Tracy Mehan, April 25, 2014, EPA, Bill Reilly, Bush Administration, Center for Environmental Policy, conservation, conservation leadership, Dan Fiorino, George H.W. Bush, Hank Habicht, Performance Track, Senator Bob Graham, The New Environmental Regulation, Tracy Mehan, 0

This past week, April 24th, I was privileged to introduce former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly at the Center...

Natural Investment in Water Quality

Tracy Mehan, April 10, 2014, Water Issues, avoided costs, City of Philadelphia, Durham NC, economics, filtration avoidance, Forests, Howard Neukrug, Hydrology, Manchester New Hampshire, National Academies, National Research Council, natural infrastructure, Safe Drinking Water Act, Seattle, South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, Todd Gartner, Upper Neuse River Basin, water quality, World Resources Institute, 0

A few weeks ago I posted an item regarding the release of World Resources Institute’s new report on natural...

Prize Money and Environmental Improvement

Tracy Mehan, February 21, 2014, Free-Market Environmentalism, Chesapeake Bay, Dava Sobel, dead zone, Gulf of Mexico, hypoxia, Phyllis Taylor Foundation, Tulane, 3

In 1995 Dava Sobel wrote a fascinating book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the...

Natural Infrastructure for Safe and Clean Water

Tracy Mehan, February 12, 2014, Conservative Conservationism, Andrew Steer, ELI, Forests, gray infrastructure, green infrastructure, Safe Drinking Water, source water protection, water infrastructure, water quality, WRI, 0

The World Resources Institute recently released an exciting and very useful report on Natural Infrastructure: Investing in Forested Landscapes...

Government, Governance, and Environmental Management

Tracy Mehan, February 4, 2014, Uncategorized, 0

The matter of distinguishing government from governance, identifying their separate yet complementary roles, say, in the realm of...

Trust, Farmers, and Water Quality Trading

Tracy Mehan, January 24, 2014, Free-Market Environmentalism, AgInFomatics, clean water, Clean Water Act, conservation, dead zone, Elinor Ostrom, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Lynn Scarlett, Mississippi River, network governance, Ohio River, Peter Nowak, Sand County Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, trust, water quality, water quality trading, watersheds, WRI, 5

The essence of the Clean Water Act (CWA) is its prohibition of the discharge of any pollutant into the...

The “Good” Part of the Farm Bill

Tracy Mehan, January 10, 2014, Agriculture and Environment, Clean WaterAct, conservation, ethanol, Farm Bill, farmers, soil erosion, susidies, wetlands, wildlife habitat, 5

Most of the Farm Bills over the years, including the one presently under consideration for reauthorization in Congress, are...

Lessons from the History of Drinking Water

Tracy Mehan, December 16, 2013, Water Issues, 2

Brent Fewell and I had the pleasure of participating in an interesting program on December 16th observing the 39th...

Water Infrastructure Investments – or the lack thereof

Tracy Mehan, November 21, 2013, Uncategorized, Water Issues, federalism, water crisis, water finance, water infrastructure, water protection, WaterWorld, WWEMA, 0

I’m linking here to an article in WaterWorld which reproduced my speech to the Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers...

Conservation, Markets, Ethics

Tracy Mehan, November 15, 2013, Conservative Conservationism, Adam Smith, Aldo Leopold, clean air, clean water, conservation, conservation easement, environmental protection, land ethic, land trust, Margaret Thatcher, Potomac Conservancy, presrvation, Sand County Almanac, Wilhelm Ropke, 1

While we strive to craft new approaches to conservation and environmental protection, with the goal of reconciling personal liberty,...

Coping with Water Scarcity

Tracy Mehan, November 13, 2013, Water Issues, technological innovation, Texas A&M, water markets, water pricing, water supply, 0

Here is a link to my mildly optimistic article on America’s water supply challenges, Coping with Water Scarcity, Risk...

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Author Archive for: Tracy Mehan

Who Owns the Environment? Part I

Who Owns the Environment? Part II

There Is No Such Thing As A “Rain Tax”

There Is No Such Thing As A “Rain Tax”

Pope Francis and the Environment

How to fill the water infrastructure investment gap in one easy lesson

Humanity’s Relationship with the Natural World

Land Trusts as a Sign of American Vitality

Honoring One of America’s Great Conservation Leaders – Bill Reilly

Natural Investment in Water Quality

Prize Money and Environmental Improvement

Natural Infrastructure for Safe and Clean Water

Government, Governance, and Environmental Management

Trust, Farmers, and Water Quality Trading

The “Good” Part of the Farm Bill

Lessons from the History of Drinking Water

Water Infrastructure Investments – or the lack thereof

Conservation, Markets, Ethics

Coping with Water Scarcity

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