Heavy handed environmental policy doesn't work

Editor’s Note: The following column from the Washington Policy Center’s Todd Myers has been abbreviated for space. To read the column in its entirety, log onto www.washingtonpolicy.org.

Judging by the discourse in Washington state, many progressives believe the political value of environmental rhetoric supersedes the value of delivering results. On the right, too many treat every environmental concern as a Trojan Horse for socialist policies.

That divisiveness has made productive environmental efforts extremely difficult and puts the most partisan voices in charge of environmental decision-mak...