Population Threats to America’s Rivers, Estuaries, and Lakes

    Their Health and Future in the Face of Ever-Rising Population Numbers. A look at a map that displays the full array of our nation’s major rivers makes very clear that they serve as “America’s lifelines.” From the smallest to the mightiest, they start in out-of-the-way corners of the land as small streams, gather volume, and rush past both small communities and

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    U.S. National Parks Stressed

    Record Numbers of Americans Are Flocking to Our National Parks Will Too Many Visitors Destroy Their Treasured Status? It’s the height of summer.  And countless millions of Americans are visiting, hiking, camping, boating and taking full advantage of the vast network of national parks that stretch across our great nation. With the economy on the upswing more people than ever …

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    Overpopulation and Habitat Encroachment

    Overpopulation and Habitat Encroachment A Growing Crisis That Must Be Brought Into Balance From Earth’s earliest times, humans and wildlife have been in conflict. One of the greatest aspects of their ongoing struggle has been over who gets to live where and how to divide limited resources.  To date, humans are winning hands down when it comes to these two …

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    THE EPA, CAR EMISSIONS, AND CALIFORNIA

    Will There Be Compromise or Chaos? The Trump administration’s proposal to roll back federal clean car standards that were put in place in 2012 during the Obama administration has set off a political firestorm that involves many powerful political players – and prompted the nation’s most populous state to dig in and respond with a very emphatic “NO!”  The answer …

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    1965 and All That: Federal Laws That Increase Population and Illegal Immigration

    The U.S. has never had a formal population policy – has never tried to directly limit population growth or fertility rates. Any such policy would likely start with constraints on groups with the highest fertility rates: the poor, the poorly educated, minorities, and immigrants. The politics of such a move would be daunting. Charges of racism, elitism, and government meddling in a decision best left…

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    New NPG Research Paper Focuses on Immigration, Population, Labor and the Economy

    Calls for Shift in Immigration Policy to Restore Fairness to the Labor Market. Many observers have been voicing growing uneasiness about the degradation in the conditions facing America’s working and middle classes in the past few decades.  To what degree are stagnating wages, decreasing prospects for mobility and the hollowing out of the middle class attributable to immigration?  More importantly, what can we do to halt the worsening of the condition of the country’s workers?…

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