Approximately 14.6 million travelers from other countries visit America’s national parks annually. Now, the U.S. Department of the Interior is proposing a surcharge so that these visitors pay a little extra for park entrance fees.
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Repeal NEPA Now, For Any Reason You Like
These obsolete laws still on the books would be comical if they weren't so constricting.
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GOP leaders face internal pushback, doubts on ‘big beautiful bill’ vote
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is moving full-speed ahead toward a planned vote this week on his chamber’s version of President Trump’s tax and spending bill, despite pushback from GOP colleagues and serious doubts about his prospects. Republicans say Thune and other Senate GOP leaders have told them the bill is on track for a vote before the July 4...
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Can New Hampshire Usher In an Era of Off-Grid Electricity Supply?
The New Hampshire House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would pave the way for consumer-regulated electricity.
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AG leading suit against NY effort to punish energy firms for climate change warns of major repercussions
A New York law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul that would impose as much as $75 billion in liabilities on major fossil fuel companies by forcing them to pay into a state “climate super-fund” depending on their emissions would hurt way more than the firms themselves, West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey warned Friday. “It would be...
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Trump pulls out of Pacific Northwest salmon restoration agreement
President Trump pulled the U.S. out of a Biden-era agreement with several tribes that aimed to restore salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Trump, in a late Thursday memo, described the Biden administration’s agreement as an example of “radical environmentalism” and said his administration would instead prioritize power generation from hydroelectric dams in the region. The Biden-era agreement came...
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The Future of American Energy Dominance Hinges on Regulatory and Permitting Reform
Despite the rhetoric that energy tax credits are essential to energy dominance, the real obstacle holding back energy investment and deployment is regulatory bottlenecks at the federal, state, and local levels. Policy reforms that unlock all forms of energy development can enhance energy affordability and grid resiliency at a significantly lower cost to taxpayers.
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Trump’s cuts to National Park Service rankle Republicans
President Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Park Service (NPS) are troubling some Republicans. The Trump administration has proposed a 30 percent cut to the park service’s operations and staffing budgets. In addition, the administration’s budget calls for transferring some park service sites to the states — a provision that is sparking particular ire from...
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New Trump permitting council head hopes to make agency unnecessary
President Donald Trump’s new permitting director said she hopes Congress can eliminate her job by passing meaningful reform. Last week, the White House named former congressional staffer Emily Domenech to head the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, more simply known as the Permitting Council. The 16-person council was established during the second Obama administration through the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation...
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How Conservation Can Improve Global Security
Congress recognized that conservation plays a critical role in global security and improved cooperation among countries when it passed the U.S. Foundation for International Conservation Act (USFICA) last December, as part of a nearly $1 trillion defense spending package.
