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Green Tea Party logo Terry Anderson believes in a new approach to environmental quality: Empower citizens through property rights and markets to act in their own best interests. Learn more: Green Tea Party, The Wall Street Journal, and the John Batchelor Show.

ESA fails on private land

Jonathan Adler, a PERC Lone Mountain Fellow, argues that the ESA should be modified to separate the listing of a species from the details of how it should be protected, avoiding conflict and allowing more creative solutions.

Don't kill bears for acting like bears

grizzly bear A man killed by a grizzly while hiking in Yellowstone is a tragedy. It is also a tragedy to track down and kill a bear that may have been protecting her cubs, or may not have even been responsible for the death.

Environmental markets help ensure water quality

Cities throughout the West are facing unprecedented demands for clean water. Some are investing in new technologies. Others are improving land management and restoring healthy ecosystems—Mother Nature's way of providing clean water. Read more

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Do federal programs crowd out private conservation?

Published by the University of Wisconsin, a paper by PERC Scholars Walter Thurman and Dominic Parker examines the impact of federal land conservation on private land trusts. "Crowding Out Open Space: The Effects of Federal Land Programs on Private Land Trust Conservation" is available online as an abstract and complete paper. Read the commentary

Saving African Rhinos: A Market Success Story

A new PERC Case Study by environmental economist Michael 't Sas-Rolfes explains how white rhinos were saved from the brink of extinction in southern Africa by allowing private ownership of wildlife and the use of markets.

Do fiscal conservatives and enviromentalists share common ground?

Terry Anderson talks about how the two movements could unite in behalf of environmental quality. The Green Tea Party founded by Kermit the Frog and supported by PERC just could be the best way to connect. Listen to a short interview.

Jobs vs environment one more time

construction site The economic effect of environmental regulation, and the effect of regulation on job creation is once again in the news as President Obama withdraws plans for new air pollution controls. Case Western Law Professor Jonathan Adler looks at the pros and cons. Read

PERC scholars win Addington Prize from Fraser

Canada's leading public policy think-tank, the Fraser Institute, has awarded the Addington Prize in Measurement to Terry L. Anderson and Dominic Parker for their paper, "Sovereignty, Credible Commitments, and Economic Prosperity on American Indian Reservations." The paper measures the crippling economic consequences resulting from the lack of private property rights on Indian reservations.

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PERC honored by gift of Staghorn coral

coral reef in Florida A small piece of Staghorn coral with PERC's name on it is growing in a nursery off the Florida coast—a gift from the 2011 Enviropreneur Institute Fellows. It and other adopted corals will be used to restore damaged reefs to health and beauty. Are you ready to adopt?

Gasoline subsidies distort the market

gas pump nozzle PERC Senior Fellow Andrew Morriss appeared on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show to argue that energy prices are all distorted by subsidies. Until people pay the real costs of their energy consumption, there will be no inducement in the market place for technological innovation.

Market-friendly effort restores famed New York park

New York’s Central Park celebrated the reopening of the East Meadow this week, the last of the great lawns to be restored. The park also looked back at 30 years of private effort by the Central Park Conservancy to raise money and manage the restoration of one of the world’s most beloved parks. The New York Times reports on the success of this market-oriented project and PERC Reports provides details.

Forest fires thrive on central management

Millions of acres of forest are some of our nation’s greatest natural resources. Managed by the federal government, their streams are polluted, wildlife habitat degraded, and recreational values compromised. Private management, not government, has the right incentive to protect these forests.