Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: The Environment

Trump, the Environment, and the Free Market.

Matters of Policy & Politics•April 19, 2017
Area 45: The Environment

As Earth Day approaches, Hoover senior fellow Terry Anderson rates the new interior secretary and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator and suggests some free-market environmental principles for the two to pursue. Also should the Trump administration revisit the century-old monument-designation authority used as never before during the Obama years but wildly unpopular across parts of the American West?

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Terry Anderson

Terry Anderson

Bill Whalen

Bill Whalen

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