Here at muninetworks.org, we continually see instances of state government preempting rights of local government to make their own decisions on broadband. It was no...
A little less than a year ago, the 88th Arkansas General Assembly created HB 2033, later known as Act 1050 [pdf]. The law made a...
A video from Chelan shows the benefits of a publicly owned fiber-to-the-home network in a rural public utility district in Washington State.… Read More
The US government is the world’s biggest consumer and together federal, state and local governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually on goods and...
A Corporate Good Character Law allows the state to take certain factors into account when deciding whether or not to allow a company a permit....
Title 3 of 1986 Superfund Amendments Reauthorization Act (SARA)established the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). EPCRA contains three major provisions: planning for chemical...
Noise pollution is an intrusion into the commons. When boom boxes, leaf blowers, and jet ski’s emit their sounds, they degrade the quality of the...
Each night almost of a third of the light used out-of-doors escapes into the night sky where, instead of providing useful illumination, it causes glare,...
Largely a post Word-War II phenomenon, the word sprawl describes what its name evokes: formless, spreading, inefficent consumption of land. A “sprawling” landscape generally has...
During the past decade, the national recycling rate (including composting) has climbed to 32%. Hundreds of communities have surpassed this level. Dozens report waste reduction...
In recent years, the largest 7 percent of U.S. farms received approximately three quarters of the market value of all agriculture products sold. About 75...
As massive, concentrated feedlots spread across the U.S., states are using a variety of techniques to protect their rural economies and environment. States such as...
Agribusiness mergers squeeze the food industry into an hourglass- with many producers and consumers but increasingly fewer processors and distributors. Food chain clusters of Monsanto/Cargill,...
The ordinance is modeled after the language of the constitutional amendments passed in Nebraska and South Dakota that ban corporate farms in those states. Similar...