In December 2016, after Trump’s election and Scott Pruitt was nominated to be the next EPA Administrator, I made...
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EPA Remains Very Relevant – More Incentives Less Bureaucracy

The Best of Intentions: Incentive, not bureaucracy, is the key to environmental protection. The American Conservative By BRENT FEWELL...
Reagan’s Environmental Chief Cautions Trump Administration

Sharing a recent NYT op-ed by William Ruckelshaus. Wise counsel from the former EPA Administrator under Presidents Nixon and...
Scott’s Miracle-Gro Teams with Alliance for the Bay – Commits to Cleaner Water

Everyone loves a green lawn, until that green turns local streams and waterways green with nasty algae. And then the...
Clean Water: America’s Great Unfinished Agenda
Sixty years ago, kids swimming in the Great Lakes could be up to their necks in water, look down,...
Climate Change: What If We Can’t Get There From Here?

By Guest Contributor, Michael Curley Power plants are our single largest source of greenhouse gases. Reducing emissions from power...
Trust, Farmers, and Water Quality Trading

The essence of the Clean Water Act (CWA) is its prohibition of the discharge of any pollutant into the...
Kudos to EPA for Supporting Market-Based Approaches to a Cleaner Environment

Today, the U.S. EPA, in partnership with the USDA, reaffirmed its commitment to water quality trading. Link to the...
Have You Hugged Your Toilet Lately

I’ve done some toilet hugging in my days, but we’ll skip those sordid details for now. It’s been...
Better Tools Needed to Resolve Transboundary Pollution

I bumped into David Schoenbrod this week at the Federalist Society’s annual lawyers convention in DC, where we discussed the need...
Conservation, Markets, Ethics

While we strive to craft new approaches to conservation and environmental protection, with the goal of reconciling personal liberty,...
"The biggest challenge to the environment, as I see it, is the life-style of modern people –
fast food, packaging, pets, urban sprawl, and other things which can be rectified only slowly and only through a concerted effort of education."
― Conservative Philosopher & Author, Roger Scruton
"ConserveFewell is the place to go for some serious environmental sanity, and alternatives to the usual slop."
― Author and Political Commentator, Steve Hayward
fast food, packaging, pets, urban sprawl, and other things which can be rectified only slowly and only through a concerted effort of education."
― Conservative Philosopher & Author, Roger Scruton
"ConserveFewell is the place to go for some serious environmental sanity, and alternatives to the usual slop."
― Author and Political Commentator, Steve Hayward
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