The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political left. Philosopher Roger Scruton agrees that the environment is the most urgent political problem of our age but argues in his new book "How to Think Seriously About the Planet" that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism.

If the Endangered Species Act were applied uniformly to all of the species in the US that are potential candidates for its reach, Congress would swiftly repeal it. The act's potential costs are often too high to enforce aggressively.

Greens keep returning to their abuser after another promise to do good, but nothing in President Obama's oil spill speech should offer them any hope that the administration is really going to change.

From the now-failing marriage of Larry and Laurie David come lessons about environmental hypocrisy.

Asthe environment in Western countries improves, managing water sustainably is one of the world"s leading environmental problems, more significant than climate change.

New Source Review was never good for the environment, the economy, or individual liberty, but wonderful for those whose power and funding depend on a micromanaged, process-driven regulatory system.

Roger Scruton, Britain's foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.

Whatever the new problem, environmentalists always end up back at the same old "solutions."