Trump Is Sabotaging His 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Agenda
When the government picks energy winners, consumers lose.
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.
And an increasingly unpopular one. Will Trump pay attention to the polls, if not the economists?
Forget boots on the ground. Now we’ll have Americans “on the land.”
“We’ve basically made an agreement with very little data,” warned one expert.
A useful example of how meaningful regulatory reform requires legislative action--and not just the passage of Congressional Review Act resolutions.
From forest restoration to energy infrastructure, NEPA delays projects that would benefit the economy and environment.
Lawmakers in Arizona and California are attempting to overcome local resistance to meaningful starter home reforms.
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy's book tells the stories of soldiers, stalkers, and squatters in Chernobyl during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Trump administration’s math on Middle Eastern energy supplies just doesn’t add up.
Giving more power to states is good for the environment.
Subsidizing American farmers is not a valid justification for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
A radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond has the potential to power devices for thousands of years.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
"This really is one of the dumbest things we could be doing."
From gasoline to nuclear power, tariffs will hurt America's energy sector.
The European Union doesn’t need a five-year plan—it needs free markets.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
The stark disconnect not only runs the risk of choking off much of the global commerce the president claims to welcome but threatens to stick U.S. consumers and businesses with higher costs.
A proposed state bill would allow individuals and insurers to sue oil companies for wildfires damages.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
What happened to Tonka the chimp? The Chimp Crazy series investigates.
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