Federal Agencies Keep Failing To Legally Interpret the Clean Water Act
The Biden administration is the third administration in a row to fail to issue Clean Water Act regulations that pass judicial scrutiny.
The Biden administration is the third administration in a row to fail to issue Clean Water Act regulations that pass judicial scrutiny.
What at first appears to be deregulation is actually economic activism in disguise.
Good intentions, bad results.
Beware of activists touting "responsible research and innovation." The sensible-sounding slogan masks a reactionary agenda.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world.
Stellantis, one of the largest automakers on the planet with billions in cash on hand, got a generous handout from the state of Indiana for choosing to build its battery manufacturing plant there.
We couldn't find any negative review of physicist Steven Koonin's Unsettled that disputed its claims directly or even described them accurately.
A legal fight over the Arctic grayling shows how regs can hurt rather than help.
Progressives might not be coming for your existing stove, but they are trying to stop any new installations.
Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
In drought or flood, bad environmental policy is making Californians miserable.
Despite what you may have heard, many "recyclables" sent to recycling plants are never recycled at all.
If SCOTUS finds in favor of a small-town Idaho couple in Sackett v. EPA, it could end the federal government's jurisdiction over millions of acres of land.
The country's new ban increases costs for businesses while doing nothing to address the problem of global plastic pollution.
Warning diners that red meat is bad for the environment is yet another attempt to socially engineer food choices.
It shouldn't be surprising that a misanthropic worldview like Paul Ehrlich's can be taken in xenophobic directions.
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If all Californians bought E.V.s tomorrow, it would be a nightmare.
Golden State lawmakers have refused to fix the California Environmental Quality Act. Now it could cost them a brand new office building.
The Superabundance authors make a compelling case that the world is getting richer for everyone.
Superabundance explains why a world of 8 billion people is infinitely richer than one with 1 billion.
“I think the Chestnut is an example of an interventionist approach,” says scientist Jared Westbrook. “We might have some capabilities and responsibilities to correct some of the problems that we created.”
The war on animal food products continues to pick up adherents in Europe.
Social housing supporters hope that the city can get city-owned, city-operated housing right with a new office, a more expansive mission, and different branding.
Ending subsidies can help cut emissions and energy costs.
Onerous environmental permitting regulations make rapid renewable energy deployment in the United States a "fantasy."
With government meddling, many farmers end up doing less with more, and people end up paying more for less.
"Committing vandalism by soup to send a message about climate change may be 'expressive,' but attempting to destroy someone else's work of art crosses moral and legal boundaries."
An excerpt from The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World.
The West Virginia senator had proposed a series of exceedingly modest tweaks designed to speed up the yearslong environmental review process for new energy projects.
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.
Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.
The California Environmental Quality Act gives everyone the right to delay the approval of new housing. The Golden State's NIMBY activists are happy to exercise that right.
If the Golden State wants to convert to electrical vehicles, it better start embracing nuclear power.
The West Virginia senator conditioned his support for the Inflation Reduction Act on reforming federal environmental review laws. His Senate colleagues don't seem so hot on the idea.
We need to clearcut the government regulations hampering efforts to effectively battle wildfires.
Three environmentalists groups had argued that the city failed to perform a state-required environmental analysis of its Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan.
And yet infinitely recyclable plastics are on the horizon.
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.
Fifty percent of the state's water flows to the Pacific Ocean. Another 40 percent is used for agriculture. But it's average residents who are being forced to cut back.
The racist Buffalo mass murderer's ideology drew on dangerous ideas common on both the ethnonationalist right and the far left.
Based in divisive identitarianism, the DOJ’s new strategy is a recipe for expanded authority and conflict.
The Limits to Growth is still “as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.”
Once again, Washington is giving us every reason to believe it's selling favors to cronies even if it means everyone else loses.