Comment on Rock Springs Draft Resource Management Plan
BLM Taking an "Anti-use" Approach to Land Management
The BLM is proposing to take an “anti-use” approach to land management in their latest Rock Springs Draft Resource plan.
Environmental Policy
Feature in the Epoch Times for MSLF
MSLF attorney David McDonald and Director of the MSLF Center to Keep & Bear Arms Brian Abbas were just featured today in an article by the Epoch Times in which…
Loper Bright: How Should Courts Apply “Chevron Deference”?
Loper Bright v. Raimondo
From our high school government classes, we remember that Congress passes bills, and the President signs them. But there’s more to the story. Congress has delegated an enormous amount of…
MSLF Files Comments on BLM’s Proposed “Conservation Leases”
Today, MSLF along with six other organizations filed comments on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to create rules establishing a new class of “conservation leases” intended to tie up…
It’s Time To Un-Muddy The Clean Water Act
Under the guise of the Clean Water Act, headstrong federal ecocrats want the authority to regulate every cranberry bog, duck pond, and mud puddle in America. Regulating the country’s “navigable waters” just isn’t enough for them. A tug of war over the appropriate reach of their regulatory authority has intensified since the 2006 Rapanos ruling. In Rapanos, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a fractured decision, indicated that not every wet or damp spot in America fell under federal authority—delivering a hand slap that the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn’t appreciate.
West Virginia v. EPA
Pumping The Brakes On Rogue Presidents
In the American constitutional order, Congress makes laws. The President and federal agencies are tasked with executing, enforcing and sometimes interpreting those laws, in cases where Congress used ambiguous language. But how much latitude and discretion does the executive branch have when it comes to the interpretative part of its mission, if the text of the law isn’t clear? On that question a lot depends, given the vast regulatory power the modern administrative state wields like a hammer.
Keystone XL is Officially Dead, and the Ignorant Dance on Its Grave
TC Energy Corp., the Canadian oil company spearheading the project, announced on Wednesday that it “has terminated” the Keystone XL project. After more than a decade of political, legal, and…
Conflicts of Interest Beckon as Biden Stacks His Team with Green Extremists
President Biden early on is touting his insistence on “ethics” from cabinet nominees and professional staff, and who can argue with that? But it will take more than a signed piece of paper to guard against the conflicts of interest and invitations to collusion that arise when professional activists from the outside suddenly find themselves on the inside, with the levers of federal power within easy reach.
Let The Sun Shine In
Who possibly benefits by keeping regulatory science operating in the shadows? What do the data-deniers have to fear from full disclosure if the “regulatory science” is sound?
MSLF’s Court Victory Halts Big Green’s Power Grab
Mountain States Legal Foundation scored a major legal victory for farmers and ranchers and struck a devastating blow against environmental extremists’ out-of-touch, anti-ranching agenda.