{"id":1654158,"date":"2022-09-23T02:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1654158"},"modified":"2022-09-23T02:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:21:06","slug":"new-center-wants-to-fight-wildfires-by-fixing-bad-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-center-wants-to-fight-wildfires-by-fixing-bad-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"New Center Wants to Fight Wildfires by Fixing Bad Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-center-wants-to-fight-wildfires-by-fixing-bad-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1654158&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) has launched a new conservation law and policy center that aims to promote good stewardship of the land without compromising private landowners\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-property\">property<\/a> rights, including by cutting red tape to lower the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wildfires\">wildfires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Wood, PERC\u2019s legal director, told The Epoch Times in a Sept. 22 interview that the center intends to drive collaboration, not the sort of conservation that \u201cpits people against each other\u201d through endless litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Education is one crucial focus for the center. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perc.org\/2022\/09\/19\/perc-launches-new-conservation-law-policy-center\/\">news release<\/a> touts PERC\u2019s work with Case Western University on an upcoming Supreme Court case that addresses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-clean-water-act\">Clean Water Act<\/a>, Sackett v. EPA.<\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/21\/21-454\/221303\/20220418150428150_Brief%20amici%20curiae%20of%20Property%20and%20Environment%20Research%20Center.pdf\">legal brief<\/a> on the case sided with Mike and Chantell Sackett, a couple who wanted to construct a home on their own land. More specifically, PERC supported the Sacketts\u2019 effort to get a hearing before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/21\/Supreme-Court-GettyImages-1404231177-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> The Supreme Court building in Washington on June 21, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>The EPA claimed that the Sackett\u2019s property is a federally protected wetland, meaning the Sacketts need a federal permit to build on it.<\/p>\n<p>PERC\u2019s brief argues for a \u201cclear standard that landowners and others can reasonably apply on the ground,\u201d asserting that Sackett v. EPA could help the court articulate such a standard.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, environmental groups such as the Idaho Conservation League, the Izaak Walton League, and many others backed the EPA.<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Conservation League\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/21\/21-454\/228334\/20220617143504924_21-454%20Amicus%20Idaho%20Conservation%20League.pdf\">brief<\/a> contends that the Sackett wetlands are closely connected with Priest Lake, which they argue falls under navigable waters of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>That connection, they argue, means the Sackett wetlands are themselves waters of the United States. The upshot: the Sackett property can be regulated through the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n<p>PERC\u2019s new center also tackles federal grazing rights, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) has launched a new conservation law and policy center that aims to promote good stewardship of the land without compromising private landowners\u2019 property rights, including by cutting red tape to lower the risk of wildfires. Jonathan Wood, PERC\u2019s legal director, told The Epoch Times in a Sept. 22 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}