4 Apocalypses That Never Were
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
Sunbeams and breezes are too fickle. The most climate-friendly power source is using magic rocks to boil water.
"Tariffs will have an influence on the total price," one of the project's construction partners said.
The wonders of capitalism make hyper-realistic egg substitutes possible.
The urban farming renaissance offers a little taste of self-reliance.
Trump hopes you like tomato sauce!
Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it.
The lawsuit will hopefully make stringent regulations for nuclear power a relic of the past.
The Atlantic's Derek Thompson urges Democrats to embrace more libertarian, pro-growth policies in his new book.
A simple and quite symbolic presidential decree that symbolizes quite a bit, but accomplishes very little.
From Obama, to Trump, to Biden, to Trump again, the definition of showerhead keeps changing.
The president’s preferential treatment of fossil fuels will cost consumers.
Next up are woolly mammoths, dodos, and Tasmanian wolves.
Because of the century-old Jones Act, U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico must use overpriced, outdated ships to import American LNG—while the Dominican Republic enjoys cheaper energy from the same source.
Decades of efficiency mandates have made dishwashers weaker, A.C. units feebler, and appliances more expensive. A new rollback offers a rare win for function over dogma.
Lower-income families who spend the largest shares of their income on goods—and who have been badly hurt from the recent inflation—will likely suffer the most.
Trump's first trade war cost farmers $27 billion. Losses this time around could be higher.
Many of the houses destroyed by the Pacific Palisades fires were not covered by private insurance due to state regulations.
The escalating dispute threatens Mexican farmers—and American consumers.
When the government picks energy winners, consumers lose.
Cultivated meat isn't challenging slaughtered meat anytime soon. But states keep trying to restrict competition.
Republican members of Congress are lobbying to keep the Inflation Reduction Act's tax credits alive.
Iran isn’t building a nuclear weapon, the Trump administration says. But this hasn’t stopped the march toward war.
Northeastern states import massive amounts of electricity from Canada while strangling domestic energy production with regulations.
The Jones Act keeps energy-hungry Alaskans from using their own natural gas.
Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina.
The latest tariffs appear to be like many before that were promised but never enacted.
Farmers will bear the brunt of Trump's trade war. That's a good reason to avoid tariffs in the first place, not an excuse for another bailout.
Invoking the Defense Production Act won't boost the supply of critical minerals.
"Supply-side progressives" like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are ultimately technocrats, not libertarians. But they recognize that more is better than less and that a good society is not zero-sum.
Good intentions, bad results.
Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina.
Syrian Kurdish rebels and the new Syrian government have agreed to reunite peacefully. The U.S. military may have helped broker the agreement.
Tariffs on steel and aluminum imports inflate the cost of electric vehicles.
Environmental Protection Agency
“Environmental justice” has no place at a regulatory agency. But the EPA was already a problem.
The outgoing administration shoveled out loans for projects that private lenders wouldn't fund.
The move is part of a broader suite of deregulatory actions announced by the EPA Administrator, and is likely the least advisable item on the list.
A New York law demands fossil fuel companies pay $75 billion for carbon emissions dating back to the year 2000. Other Democrat-controlled states plan to follow suit.
During Trump's first term, California filed numerous lawsuits seeking to halt deregulation.
Justice Thomas dissents from the Court's continued unwillingness to hear bills of complaint filed under the Court's original jurisdiction.
The government experiment in socially engineering the country into less energy use raised costs.
Do Americans really need federal bureaucrats to tell us what's good for us?
The Trump administration’s trade war leaves everyone worse off.
The federal government has no business being a bank.
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