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Author: Damien M. Schiff Earth Island Journal has an interview with Kieran Suckling, head of the environmentalist group Center for Biological Diversity. (Suckling is a former member of Earth First!; the organization's website describes the group as an antidote to "namby-pamby environmental groups" and describes its membership as rangi ...

Author: Joshua Thompson Some very interesting developments have been happening on the school choice front recently.  Of course, the big victory came back in April when the Supreme Court ruled that school choice programs funded by tax credits are not challengeable by taxpayers under the Establishment Clause.  While this was clearly ...

Author: Brandon Middleton John Bass accuses Judge Wanger of demanding "an impossibly high scientific standard" to justify the location of X2 (the italicized language is Bass's quoting of the Kern Valley Sun): In yesterday’s injunction, Judge Wanger ruled the 2008 biological opinion still "fails to explain why it is essentia ...

Author: Damien M. Schiff Redlands Daily Facts reports that, owing to a recent siting of the federally protected San Bernardino kangaroo rat, a 1.5-mile road expansion in San Bernardino may cost millions of dollars more than originally anticipated. The added costs are due to the habitat mitigation requirements that may attach to the road expansion ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur I'll be joining San Diego's Chris Reed on KOGO AM 600 tonight at 7:30 to talk about the aftermath of the infamous Kelo v. New London case. Click here to read more about how government planning literally transformed a quaint, pleasant, residential neighborhood into a dump. Update: You can listen to the … ...

Author: Brandon Middleton Yesterday, NRDC made three significant filings relating to Judge Wanger's decision last week to enjoin the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from fully implementing its fall X2 action.  First, NRDC appealed the decision and injunction.  Second, it requested that Judge Wanger issue a "stay of the Court ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Dr. Peter Gleick of the National Academy of Sciences has this interesting piece in Forbes Magazine lamenting the growing anti-science culture in America and using the political debate over climate change as a case-in-point. Dr. Gleick has many good points, but two of his assertions and assumptions bear a closer look. ...

Author: Brandon Middleton John Bass offers a reply to my earlier post: Brandon Middleton's response to my post about Judge Wanger’s last decision is titled "Trust us, we’re federal scientists." Why not make the title "Trust us, we’re scientists"? Seems to answer itself. Not really.  The federal govern ...

Author: Brandon Middleton The federal government has joined NRDC in appealing last week's X2 decision.  The feds' appeal was filed last night and was accompanied by a motion for a stay of the injunction and a memorandum in support of the motion for a stay. It is unclear at this point how this latest filing … ...