Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environmental challenges.
Types Archives
Save Endangered Species From Environmental Regulations
Endangered species have it bad enough. We should make sure the laws designed to protect them don’t make things worse.
One Small Step for Native American Water Rights
The Colorado River Indian Tribes have just won a victory—but there are a lot more controls that need to be lifted.
Congress Limits Conservation Easement Write-Offs—That’s Good for Conservation and Taxpayers
The cap on easement deductions is a win for the general taxpayers in an otherwise bloated spending bill.
PERC Reports Winter 2022
This special issue of PERC Reports explores the West’s water crisis and how markets can address today’s shortages.
Pay a Farmer, Save the Colorado?
Agriculture uses the vast majority of water in the arid West. Shouldn’t there be simple ways to trade the valuable resource?
How Federal Laws Undermine Native American Water Rights
Tribes could help bridge gaps between water supply and demand in the Colorado River Basin—if it weren’t for federal restrictions
The Water Beneath the Desert
A groundwater market in the Mojave Desert offers lessons for California and beyond
Trout Water
A firsthand account of the legislative quest to reform Utah water law and allow conservationists to protect fish and wildlife habitat
Clear As Mud
A half-century after the Clean Water Act was enacted, there’s still no clear answer as to what it regulates. A new Supreme Court case may finally provide some clarity.