• Julie Gunlock, from her new book, on killer garden hoses [Free-Range Kids]
• “EPA and the Army Corps’ ‘Waters of the U.S.’ Proposal: Will it Initiate Regulatory Overflow?” [Samuel Boxerman with Lisa Jones, WLF]
• Federal rules governing land ownership on Indian reservations ensure waste and neglect [Chris Edwards, Cato]
• “Zoning’s Racist Roots Still Bear Fruit” [A. Barton Hinkle]
• Victor Fleischer: Pigouvian taxes on externalities beloved of economists, not so great as actionable policy [TaxProf]
• So economically and so environmentally destructive, it’s got to be federal ethanol policy [Hinkle]
• “Regulation Through Sham Litigation: The Sue and Settle Phenomenon” [Andrew Grossman for Heritage on a consent-decree pattern found in environmental regulation and far beyond; Josiah Neeley, The Federalist]

Filed under: consent decrees, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, ethanol, Indian tribes, land use and zoning