At this event, leading environmental policy experts, academics, and legal scholars will discuss their proposals for new and innovative reforms that challenge conventional conservation strategies and seek to enhance economic efficiency and environmental conservation simultaneously.

REINS would improve environmental regulation by giving legislators a role in updating our obsolete environmental statutes. EPA has been rolling grenades to succeeding presidential administrations since it was established. The origin of the rolling, ticking hand grenades is Congress.

The Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act would free state and local government from court orders that are unnecessary to protect rights, yet prevent states and localities from adopting to the lessons of experience and changing priorities.

Though air quality continues to improve, those gains have come at the cost of devoting resources to creating administrative requirements, rather than reducing pollution.

This issue introduces the Environmental Policy Outlook, a monthly essay on trends and controversies in environmental policy.

The sensible course of action in the face of uncertainty is to enact the Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act and to monitor its outcomes.