In a rare show of unity on May 29, 2025, The U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled 8-0 in favor of limiting the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) The court recognized that despite many ...

America is going back to the moon, in the process, rejecting a decade-long policy called the "precautionary principle." ...

The Precautionary Principle—a popular theory holding that speculative, unproven environmental risks are entitled to primacy in any environmental debate so long as any risks exist—has been harshly ...

On June 16, 2023, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously that the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”), when faced with insufficient data ...

The problems of the “precautionary principle” received a thorough airing from its critics at a December 12 forum sponsored by the George C. Marshall Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank ...

The precautionary principle can be summed up in age-old sayings like: “Look before you leap,” “first, do no harm,” or “better safe than sorry.” Put another way, think of Murphy’s law, “if anything can ...

The precautionary principle (PP) holds that in the face of scientific uncertainty about the outcomes of deploying a new technology, and especially when serious or irreversible damage could occur, a ...

It is not often that a forestry class delves into the realm of philosophy. So, when my teacher started discussing the “precautionary principle” during Forest Resource Policy, I felt slightly out of ...