Are a Majority of D.C. Circuit Judges Republican Appointees? The NYT Thinks So [Updated]
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.
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.
Dutch officials are updating zoning laws to allow homes that are fixed to the shore but rise and fall with the water.
Over the last 100 years, we've seen a 98 percent decrease in climate-related deaths. You can thank fossil fuels.
Authoritarianism grows increasingly popular, with environmentalists among the greatest enthusiasts.
For years, experts warned that any given hurricane or heat wave cannot be attributed to long-term changes in average temperatures. But it turns out that climatologists and meteorologists sometimes can establish such causal relationships.
In a brief per curiam opinion, the Fifth Circuit concludes the plaintiff states lack standing to press their claims.
The president's anticipated executive order stopped short of feared regulations but suggests federal unease with uncontrolled development.
Companies may be required to provide broader climate-related disclosures to investors, but would such a requirement survive legal challenge?
New U.N. report says we are about to "miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all."
The most important environmental case of the 2021-22 term will be heard next week.
Well-intentioned regulation often constrains the development and deployment of clean technologies.
Why the arguments the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to hear the latest climate change case likely lack merit.
A federal district court has taken the unusual step of enjoining an Executive Order setting forth an Administration's regulatory priorities.
Another good reason to stop subsidizing people to live at the beach.
Global temperature to rise to around 2.2°C above the pre-industrial average by 2100.
Nothing new under the sun as Biden decides to extend Trump's solar panel tariffs for four more years.
The Glasgow Declaration's empty platitudes confirm that China will not be hectored by the U.S. into making any significant changes to its climate policies.
The Solicitor General and NGO respondents argue that the petitioners lack appellate standing to challenge the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of the Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.
Nuclear power wasn’t green enough for German leaders, so now they depend on energy from Russia.
Insofar as the Court was concerned about pretext, it may be more difficult for the EPA to reduce greenhouse gases using regulatory authority to control emissions.
Local ordinances threaten upstart crypto-mining operations.
Increasing weather damage costs are not reliable evidence for climate change.
It's unwise to try to force consumer spending habits in defiance of the market.
You can support pre-K education and affordable child care and worry about climate change while understanding that policymakers need to get out of the way.
It's true that some users spread lies on social media. But this can’t be solved by partisan “fact-checking."
Only vehicles made in unionized U.S. factories qualify for the full amount.
Accelerating market and technological trends will fortuitously keep many COP26 promises.
The cryptocurrency is spurring use of renewable energy even as it undermines existing economic, political, and cultural elites.
In Stephenson's near-future novel, innovation, not legislation, is the best response to a changing climate.
The policies and technologies they reject as "false solutions" would actually work to mitigate climate change.
Planting trees as a partial solution to climate change has broad bipartisan appeal.
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Meanwhile, the U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration is "a stage-managed nothingburger."