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Conservatives outsourced environmental policy

Daniel A. Farber (UC-Berkeley): The Conservative as Environmentalist: From Goldwater and the Early Reagan to the 21st Century. How much has “climate change” been scrubbed from federal websites? A lot. The toxic chemical industry is having a really great year. The US coal industry is going out, not with a whimper, but with a burst of rent-seeking. Can we put coal miners back to work in clean energy? Why conservatives outsourced environmental policy to lobbyists and kooks. Adam M. Sowards on Interior’s legacy of bad behavior: Ryan Zinke isn’t the first Interior secretary to attract controversy. The damage done by Trump’s Department of the Interior: Under Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of the Interior, it’s a sell-off from sea to shining sea. Most of National Park System Advisory Board quit in protest.