Questions mount over climate spending, emissions scenarios Call them absolutely gobsmacked. The environmental movement is used to getting its way in the federal government, not...

What happens if data centers become stranded assets? America is furiously building hyperscale data centers—and many communities are furiously fighting them—on the assumption that...

Fifth generation rancher Casey Murph and his family are literally staring into the sun  Casey Murph’s family has been on the same northern Arizona land since the 1870s and...

She came home to become a farmer. Now she’s a fighter, too. Sit back and settle in, because this is a riveting, real-life story about who gets to decide what happens to rural...

A manufacturer challenges the private wielding of public power For more than 50 years, through its citizen-suit provision, the Clean Water Act has allowed private individuals and...

Environmental and other advocacy groups have become deeply embedded in federal park operations, from land acquisition and management to fundraising and messaging Writing in the...

Three decades ago, a family conveyed land for future use as parkland, now residents are fighting a proposed data center As the 20th century drew to a close, members of the...

How routine ranch work became an exercise in federal bureaucracy They may not be characters in Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot, kicking around in a pointed...

Washington is building a government investment portfolio one company at a time  Just two years ago, Republicans would have greeted any proposal by the federal government to buy...

They survived extreme drought; can they survive the government? For six generations, the Heaton family has built a ranching operation in northern Arizona by surviving droughts,...

In a unanimous decision last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed that state’s residents a huge property rights victory by rejecting the so-called “open fields doctrine”...

A homebuilder says a six-figure park fee had nothing to do with impact and everything to do with government power California builder Mircea Voskerician, who purchased a...

A private climate-rating system is becoming embedded in America’s housing market, using scores based on speculative assumptions rather than observed history and raising questions...

Five Montana families become the face of America’s growing battle over environmental lawfare In a court case that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has described as an example...

There are a lot of legitimate issues about data centers out there, in particular the lack of local input and decision-making, the abrogation of property rights and the effective...

The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), a nonpartisan watchdog group, has filed a formal Inspector General complaint with the Department of the Interior seeking an...