Tag Archive for: water quality
Can EPA and Other Feds Lead by Getting Out of the Way?

Jim Huffman has a thoughtful article in the most recent issue of the PERC Reports titled Designing Institutions for...
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...
Beer Drinking Improves Water Quality – Kudos to Flying Dog Brewery

Seems to be a malt theme running through some of these positive developments. Recently, we reported here regarding the...
Mehan Urges “Creative Abandonment” to Great Lakes Commission

I share the following remarks by friend and great thinker, Tracy Mehan, with the Great Lakes Commission delivered on September...
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,...
Accelerating Environmental Protection Through New Market Approaches

Linking here to an article this past week that my friend and law partner, Brooks Smith, and I wrote for...
Natural Investment in Water Quality

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

This week I had the pleasure of spending some quality time in Portland, Oregon, with the awesome people from...
Natural Infrastructure for Safe and Clean Water

The World Resources Institute recently released an exciting and very useful report on Natural Infrastructure: Investing in Forested Landscapes...
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...
Enhancing Water Quality Through Agricultural Conservation

One of the things that U.S. Department of Agriculture has done well, is to recognize that when they cost...
Health of Our Nation’s Streams – “B+” or “D-“

We’ve come a long way in the U.S. since our rivers used to catch on fire. Here’s a picture of...
More Chicken Wings, More Environmental Challenges

We have a lot of chickens in Maryland. And, in fact, we humans are outnumbered 1,000 to 1 along...
Happy, Healthy Bugs Means Healthy Waters: continued strides to restore America’s waters

By Brent Fewell The following may be a wee bit granular for some of my readers, but hear me...
My Infinitesimally Small Contribution to Earth Day

By Brent Fewell Inspired earlier this month by the conservation work of Chris Bayley out in Oregon, and his...
Rain Rain Go Away . . .

By Brent Fewell One of the ideas behind creating this blog was to highlight some of the great conservation efforts underway...
Free-market Environmentalism – Creating Sustainable Incentives

By Brent Fewell Great article today by Brad Plumer of WaPo regarding my friend, Jonathan Adler, arguing why conservatives can...
Just Give Me The Fracking Truth!

By Brent Fewell Similar to climate change, the issue of hydraulic fracturing is now deeply mired in the quagmire of...
Keystone Protesters – the New Town Criers?

By Brent Fewell I experienced one of those out-of-body moments this week, finding myself in agreement with WaPo’s editorial...
Platoons for Conservation and the Healing Power of Water

By Brent Fewell Attended an awesomely moving tribute last evening to our Nation’s veterans. This marks the third year that...
Why legalize weed – just drink the water?!

By Brent Fewell A recent WSJ article highlights an increasingly important issue with which society is slowly grappling, drugs in...
Save a Fish – Paint a Storm Drain

By Brent Fewell Polluted stormwater runoff remains a pernicious and difficult-to-solve environmental challenge of our time. This is a storm...
The Bureaucratization of Environmentalism – can we survive good intentions?

Calling all Good Samaritans

We all know the parable told by Jesus regarding the sojourner who was robbed, pillaged, and left to die...
Nature’s Resilience – Chesapeake Bay and Signs of Hope

By Brent Fewell Promising news flowing from the Chesapeake Bay. U.S. EPA is reporting that pollutants, such as phosphorous,...
Save the Planet – plant a tree or feed a krill

Two years ago, I reported on an experiment by a fascinating environmentalist and eco-entrepreneur, Russ George, and his pioneering...
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