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Discussion of Trump v. Slaughter decision with former FTC Chairs William Kovacic, Jon Leibowitz, Deborah Majoras, Timothy Muris, Maureen Ohlhausen, and Edith Ramirez
Summary The Federal Trade Commission Act provides that FTC Commissioners, appointed by the President, can be removed by the President for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office”. In 1933, President Roosevelt fired FTC Chairman William E. Humphrey due to policy disagreements rather than the statutory grounds. In the landmark 1935 decision of Humphrey’s Executor, the Supreme Court held that the dismissal was unconstitutional.
Conservation and collaboration bolster Maine’s Bold Coast | Nature Connects
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Conservation and collaboration bolster Maine’s Bold Coast | Nature Connects
Jon Leibowitz is president and CEO of Northeast Wilderness Trust, the only land trust in the Northeast that focuses exclusively on wilderness conservation. Jacob van de Sande is associate director of land protection at Maine Coast Heritage Trust, which works to advance the conservation of lands and waters in Maine to ensure ecological well-being and foster thriving communities. On Maine’s Bold Coast sits one of the last expansive forests on the Eastern Seaboard.
Together, Maine timber companies and conservationists can protect old-growth forests | Opinion
Jon Leibowitz is president and CEO of Northeast Wilderness Trust, a regional land trust focused on wilderness conservation. John M. Hagan is a forest ecologist and president of the nonprofit Our Climate Common. This summer, lawmakers in Augusta sent a resounding message: Mainers care about late-successional and old-growth (LSOG) forests.
Together, Maine timber companies and conservationists can protect old-growth forests | Opinion
Jon Leibowitz is president and CEO of Northeast Wilderness Trust, a regional land trust focused on wilderness conservation. John M. Hagan is a forest ecologist and president of the nonprofit Our Climate Common. This summer, lawmakers in Augusta sent a resounding message: Mainers care about late-successional and old-growth (LSOG) forests.
Opinion | Why a Hotel Room in New York Costs $500 a Night
An elderly widow lives in a three-bedroom townhome in Brooklyn, where she and her husband raised their children. She would like to visit her sister in Florida around the winter holidays. She isn’t sure she can afford the trip, so she hopes to earn some extra income by renting out her home while she’s gone.
Celebrate the power of Maine and Mainers on Earth Day | Nature Connects
Each year, Earth Day invites us to reflect not just on the challenges facing our planet, but also on the progress we’ve made, and the power of coming together to protect the places we love. During a time of deep division, a conservation project in western Maine offers a powerful reminder of what is possible when we focus on what unites us and work together to achieve it.
The US may be lagging on biodiversity protections, but Vermont doesn’t have to
The US may be lagging on biodiversity protections, but Vermont doesn’t have to By Jon Leibowitz, president and CEO, Northeast Wilderness Trust VTDigger October 25, 2024 Category: Forestry Region: United States, US East Countries are meeting in Colombia this for the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Conference.
Opinion: CT needs wildlands and woodlands — not one or the other
We live in uncertain times. As we face the twin crises of climate change and extinction— and their relationship to human well-being — the importance of forests continues to take center stage in public discourse. Recent commentaries on the topic across Connecticut point to a wide range of views. Some discuss the irreplicable value of leaving parts of the landscape unmanaged as wildlands. Others explain how important and necessary forestry practices are and the industry that enacts them.
Rewilding in an Unlikely Landscape
What if someone told you a rewilding story that took place on a grand scale—the size of entire countries? As the story goes, a primeval forest disappears practically overnight (geologically speaking) leaving a landscape reminiscent of modern-day Scotland. Entire forests are brought down, first for lumber and charcoal and then pasture and farms. Carnivores like wolves and cougars are driven out. Even the most common prey, deer and turkey, are extirpated. The land is unwell.
Commentary: New England forests can sustain our climate and biodiversity - if we work together
Take a moment to imagine a New England in the not-too-distant future where vast and wondrous wildlands and exemplary managed woodlands together support thriving wildlife populations, sustain rural jobs, provide the raw materials to meet our housing needs and store immense amounts of carbon. Such a future is well within reach, but only if we put aside differences and collaborate on behalf of the forest that sustains us.
We need to work to protect our forests Original
The work between New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) and Northeast Wilderness Trust (NEWT), is a good example. NEWT focuses on rewilding land through forever-wild conservation — places free from logging and allowed to grow old. NEFF protects managed forests, and brings exemplary forestry practices to them and selectively harvests trees that provide renewable forest products. Many assume these conservation goals clash. They do not.
Opinion | How Congress Can Protect Your Data Privacy
Although a surprisingly wide range of consumer organizations and business groups are urging lawmakers to act, Congress has shown itself unable to move forward with consumer-privacy legislation. Unless it does so, the Federal Trade Commission and the states may end up using other tools to give Americans more control over personal information. When I chaired the FTC, I would not have supported such action. Soon, I may.
The Recorder - MY TURN: Wildlands must be a greater slice of the pie
Published: 12/8/2021 6:56:11 AM Modified: 12/8/2021 6:55:43 AM It was with great excitement that I was invited to speak to the Mohawk Trail Woodlands Partnership Board a couple weeks ago. I hope the presentation sparks greater respectful debate around the importance in achieving balance between wildlands and well-managed woodlands. Both are important. Wildlands conservation is often misunderstood. It is also underrepresented in conserved lands and underutilized as a conservation strategy.
Rewilding Is Not an Exotic Idea
By Jon Leibowitz Featured Image: NWT Bridgewater Hollow Preserve in Vermont, an example of a stunning mature northern hardwood forest that is being rewilded by just being left alone. (c) Daryl Burtnett Jon Leibowitz, Executive Director of Northeast Wilderness Trust, wrote in an op-ed piece published in VTDigger on November 6, 2020, that the rewilding movement has a critical place in Vermont and the rest of the Northeastern United States.
Fall 2020, Volume 2, Number 2
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Davis Polk Discusses Revised DOJ and FTC Vertical Merger Guidelines
On June 30, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission released a final version of the agencies’ updated Vertical Merger Guidelines. The updated Guidelines are broadly consistent with the draft Guidelines the DOJ and FTC released in January of this year, but contain meaningful changes that express certain concerns with vertical mergers with greater specificity, and eliminate the proposed “safe-harbor” contained in the draft Guidelines.
FTC and DOJ Issue Statement Regarding COVID-19 and Competition in Labor Markets
As part of continued action to address the economic upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. antitrust agencies issued further guidance yesterday regarding competitor collaboration in regards to labor markets.
Global Enforcers Acknowledge Need for Competitor Collaboration During COVID-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, questions are arising concerning whether and to what extent firms may have greater latitude to collaborate with competitors to address public health and welfare concerns. Today, the US announced antitrust guidance for the COVID-19 pandemic.
What do you think about the dual appointment of Commissioner Vestager?
Jon Leibowitz, Davis Polk Harvard Law School, November 2019
Maine Compass: Legislature should get real on internet privacy
As Washington continues to set new records for gridlock and futility, it’s understandable that state “laboratories of democracy” are ramping up to protect their residents and attempt to solve problems the federal government seems incapable of addressing. Maine’s push to enact a local internet privacy law is a perfect example. I don’t support state-specific legislation.
Everybody Calm Down About Net Neutrality
The rhetoric over net neutrality has reached a fever pitch, with each side predicting dire consequences if opponents get their way. There is a critical need for protections from anticompetitive practices online, but both sides are exaggerating.
California legislation to ‘protect’ privacy won’t solve privacy problems
Despite its name, the California Broadband Internet Privacy Act, awaiting votes in the state Senate, won’t do anything meaningful to protect consumer privacy on line. Instead, it will curb innovation and reduce competition, hurting consumers whose interests it purports to protect. The measure, AB 375 by Assemblyman Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park, is intended to crack down on internet service providers that are allegedly selling sensitive personal web browsing information without consumers’ consent.
Another View: Collins was right to oppose internet privacy rules - Portland Press Herald
A few privacy advocates have mistakenly criticized Sen. Susan Collins for her vote to prevent the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband privacy rules from going into effect.
The New Privacy Cop Patrolling the Internet
As our online footprints grow in size and scope, it is more important than ever for Internet companies to protect us against hackers and disclose how they use our personal data. The Federal Trade Commission was long the main privacy cop enforcing these essential consumer protections. But last year, the FTC’s sister agency—the Federal Communications Commission—reclassified broadband ISPs as common carriers outside the FTC’s jurisdiction.
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