Tag: environmental policy

New Congress Should Empower People—Not Politicians—for Environmental Results

Commentary As Republicans expand their power in Congress, high on their agenda should be a change in the country’s approach to environmental stewardship. The new strategy cannot simply be a less oppressive form of the Left’s approach. Conservative voters would reject that, and it is ineffective. Republicans should work to shift the focus of environmental…


Sri Lanka’s Economic Chaos Shows the Dangers of Environmental Planning

Commentary On July 14, after months of economic and social unrest, Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned in disgrace and fled to Singapore, leaving in his wake an economic crisis and a food shortage. How Rajapaksa’s fate was sealed is not complicated. You probably heard that Sri Lanka adopted an all-organic approach to agriculture, banning…