“Environmental review makes it hard to do anything — even make a new bike lane” [Matthew Yglesias, Vox]
Outdoors education: don’t just treat nature as a museum for kids, let them play in it [Lenore Skenazy]
Not more outcry? “Philadelphia To Seize 1,330 Properties For Public Redevelopment” [Scott Beyer, more]
Influencing proceedings against Chevron: “Documents Reveal Ecuadorian Government Organized Protests on U.S. Soil” [Lachlan Markay, Free Beacon]
Inholders can be caught in maze of jurisdictional obstacles when attempting to challenge federal land takings, Nevada church deprived of former water use deserves a remedy [Ilya Shapiro, Cato on cert petition in Ministerio Roca Solida v. United States]
Touchy legacy for HUD today: New Deal housing programs advanced segregation, sometimes on purpose [Coyote]
Payouts in BP Gulf spill headed for $68 billion, much going to uninjured parties, sending message to overseas investors not to invest in US [Collin Eaton, San Antonio Express-News] Bad results in BP episode will help teach Takata and other mass tort defendants not to try the “right thing” again [Joseph Nocera, N.Y. Times]

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Taking road space away from drivers and giving it to bike riders is very likely to cause more stopped car traffic and therefore more pollution. It’s poetic justice if the very mechanism greens constantly use to stop good (pro-driving) projects — the EIR — bites them too!
- July 16, 2015 10:31 AM
- By jdgalt