Here's What the Media Get Wrong About Hurricanes
No, a big storm does not require big government.
No, a big storm does not require big government.
Why are activists trying to stop research into a promising backup plan to handle climate change?
Haarlem lawmakers claim the ban will help fight climate change.
If climate change is an emergency that requires immediate action, it makes sense to streamline environmental reviews that tangle green energy projects in red tape.
Europe is facing an energy crisis, but bureaucrats need to realize that long-term climate goals can be addressed without sacrificing the well-being of the population.
Climate scientist Andrew Dessler of Texas A&M University defends urgent action on climate against scientist and author Steven Koonin.
New Jersey is the first state to ban single-use bags made from both plastic and paper, but one is actually worse for the environment than the other.
Wonderful news for California's economy and consumers!
Amid a heat wave, warnings were sent out not to recharge electric vehicles during peak hours.
Texas A&M University's Andrew Dessler vs. Steven Koonin, former undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy
If the Golden State wants to convert to electrical vehicles, it better start embracing nuclear power.
Why should we believe that this boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of other corporate welfare programs?
Five Circuits have considered, and rejected, fossil fuel efforts to get state-law tort and nuisance claims removed to federal court. Will their luck change in the Supreme Court?
This stunt to save energy will do very little but make people sweat
Thanks to some amazing recent crop biotech breakthroughs
Plus: Inside Trump's family separation policy, a Grammarly for government, and more...
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey surveys the provisions within the recent Inflation Reduction Act aimed at curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
A 40 percent cut in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 is possibly achievable.
My forthcoming article the good, the bad, and the likely implications of the Supreme Court's decision West Virginia v. EPA
Plus: The editors each analyze their biggest “I was wrong” moment from past work.
But it will hike taxes, including on Americans earning less than $200,000 annually.
Implementing policy is supposed to be difficult given that it could affect millions of people’s lives.
What Florida gets right about using controlled burns to prevent damaging wildfires, and what California could learn from it.
But does not declare that it is a "national emergency."
If the National Emergencies Act goes without reform, presidents will continue to misuse emergency declarations as leverage to shift Congress.
"We've crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe. It's time for you to pass it," proclaim staffers in a letter to Congressional leaders.
The Supreme Court is skeptical of agency efforts to pour new wine out of old bottles.
Plus: The editors answer the question “How would you change the Constitution?”
Blaming oil companies and Vladimir Putin for our current energy woes is dishonest and unhelpful.
Climate protesters who blocked an interstate outside D.C. likely cost a man his parole.
"It's an outrageous outcome to label gas and nuclear as green," responds Greenpeace
In her forceful West Virginia v. EPA dissent, Justice Kagan challenges the majority's commitment to textualism.
Plus: A new lawsuit challenges D.C.'s ban on carrying guns on public transit, Denver's latest housing affordability initiative will make the city more expensive, and more...
Chief Justice Roberts writes for a six-justice majority in West Virginia v. EPA.
Environmental Protection Agency
No matter how the Supreme Court rules in West Virginia v. EPA, absent legislative action it is unlikely new power plant rules will be in force before 2024.
A New York Times piece on conservative legal challenges to climate regulations characterizes the balance of the D.C. Circuit in a most unusual way.
With upticks in cities with greater proportions of immigrant laborers and homeless people
Without opinion the justices rejected Louisiana's application to vacate a lower court stay.
Vaclav Smil’s How the World Really Works offers hope and despair for techno-optimists.
Coal, oil, and gas have contributed to global warming, but we can deal with their impact while letting them bring billions more up to middle-class living standards.
An interesting and surprising research result.
The energy policy analyst says cheap and abundant gas, oil, and coal will continue to play a central role in human flourishing.
Corporations were just as greedy when prices fell in 2019 and early 2020.
The pact will phase down the use of HFC coolants.
And avoid implausible, worst-case scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions too.
Not a single judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sought to reconsider a stay of a district court opinion barring consideration of the Biden Administration's social cost of carbon estimates.
But only if politicians 30 years from now keep promises made by politicians today.
Market-driven dematerialization is the unsung environmental success story of the 21st century.
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