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Comedy Central and the BP oil disaster

July 08, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Ms. Sara Benincasa over at the Comedy Central blog sharply criticizes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for its conclusion, issued under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, that the Minerals Management Service's authorization of deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would be unlikely adversely to aff ...

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Speakers Bureau presentation coming up July 30

July 16, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Daniel Himebaugh I will be speaking at a public forum hosted by the Common Sense Alliance in Friday Harbor, Washington the evening of July 30.  The forum will address land use planning and problems related to "critical areas" regulation in Washington State.  My topic is the effect of the precautionary principle on land ...

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Zoning for the ocean?

August 11, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Daniel Himebaugh The Obama Administration recently announced the release of the Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force.  The Final Recommendations propose a "National Policy" for comprehensive marine planning to be overseen by a new federal agency: the National Ocean Council (NOC).  Notably, the National ...

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Court rejects environmental "Chicken Little" arguments in PLF victory

January 31, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Daniel Himebaugh Today, the Washington Court of Appeals upheld San Juan County property owner Chris Hughes' permit to build a single-family dock.  Last spring, PLF filed an amicus brief supporting Hughes in his struggle to defend the project from an environmental group that alleged that the dock would spark global eelgrass decline ...

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PLF's Daniel Himebaugh to testify before Washington Senate Environment Committee on precautionary regulation

February 01, 2012 | By BRIAN HODGES

I will be testifying to the Washington Senate Environment Committee today on SB 6369, a bill that would amend the State Environmental Policy Act.  SEPA is Washington’s “environmental checklist” law.  It requires the government and developers to identify the environmental effects of proposed projects. SB 6369 would add a new sect ...

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Warning! First Amendment rights under attack!

February 06, 2018 | By DEBORAH LA FETRA

The Federal Communications Commission has set a safety standard for cell phone radiation that is fifty times greater than necessary. … ...