Mandating Indoor Cannabis Cultivation Is Bad for the Environment
Legalizing interstate sales and allowing outdoor growing would reduce the cannabis industry's energy consumption.
Environmentalism
Sierra Club Inches Toward Accepting Genetically Modified Chestnut Trees
Let's restore this giant to America's forests.
California's Zero-Emission Car Mandate Is Empty Virtue Signalling
Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order banning non-electric cars from being sold after 2035 merely shifts the emissions from the tailpipe to the power plant.
Conservationists Pushed Ban on Non-Fatal Rhino Horn Harvesting. Poaching Skyrocketed.
Environmental activists should use the market to their advantage.
Biden Debuts Massive New Climate Bureaucracy
Plus: Senate Conservatives Fund rallies for Hawley, Trump's popularity is rising again, and more...
Standing Athwart Apocalyptic Visions Is Useful but Not Enough
My review of Michael Shellenberger's Apocalypse Never
Don't Believe the Hype About 'Socially Responsible' Investing
Want to make money and help the world, too? Wall Street says you can!
Completely Replace Fossil Fuels Within 20 Years? A Soho Forum Debate
Jeff Nesbit and Bjorn Lomborg on the threat of climate change and what should be done about it
The USDA Should Let People Plant Blight-Resistant American Chestnut Trees
Anti-biotech activists cite the precautionary principle to maintain chestnut tree-free forests.
Apocalypse Never
The book argues that rising prosperity and increasing technological prowess will ameliorate or reverse most deleterious environmental trends.
Phony Fact-Checking on Forest Fires
Climate activists call a video "misleading" not because it's factually inaccurate, but because it doesn't say what they want it to.
'Environmental Justice' Starts by Providing More Water for Everyone
If Californians are serious about "environmental justice," they need to find ways to pump more water into the state's remarkable infrastructure systems.
What Should Libertarians Think About the Trump Administration's NEPA Reforms?
What is wrong with requiring government agencies to consider and disclose the likely environmental consequences of their actions?
Trump Administration's NEPA Reforms Take Effect
New regulations governing National Environmental Policy Act compliance are now the law of the land.
The World Is Doing Better Than Ever. Here's Why You Never Hear About It.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents progress and explains why it happens.
Ronald Bailey: The World Is Getting Cleaner, Richer, and Safer
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents the immense, ongoing progress that politicians and media refuse to acknowledge.
California's Political Leaders Made Wildfire Season Worse
Firefighting resource shortages are caused by a legislature that is more interested in preserving union wages than in creating a firefighting system that works for the public.
The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled
"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."
Joe Biden's $2 Trillion Green New Deal Is Just a Worn-Out Democratic Jobs Program
The presidential candidate wraps old special-interest programs in green camouflage.
'Climate Change Is Real, But It's Not the End of the World': Michael Shellenberger
In his new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Shellenberger argues that science doesn't support doomsayers' claims.
Michael Shellenberger: Environmental Alarmism Is Wrong and Harmful
The Apocalypse Never author documents that things are getting greener and makes a case for nuclear power.
What Explains the "Republican Reversal" on Environmental Protection?
A book review of "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump" by James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg
Supreme Court's Muddled Clean Water Act Ruling Threatens Property Rights and the Trump Administration's Deregulation Efforts
Federal clean water regulations are a confusing mess for property owners. The Supreme Court just made things worse.
Earth Day Turns 50
Half a century later, a look back at the forecasters who got the future wrong—and one who got it right
Environmentalists Look on the Bright Side of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has led to less air pollution...unless you count all the germs.
Live Webcast: Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark on "Constitutional Environmentalism, Mature Environmentalism"
Broadcasting live at 4:30pm EDT In lieu of an in-person CLE event.
Federal Court Invalidates "Lake Erie Bill of Rights"
Toledo's ballot initiative is "unconstitutionally vague and exceeds the power of municipal government in Ohio."
Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches
Hysterical reactions greet the White House's modest changes to federal clean water rules.
Population Control Isn't the Answer to Climate Change. Capitalism Is.
Discredited 18th-century economist Thomas Malthus still haunts the environmental debate.
Communist China Declares War on Single-Use Plastics
China is responsible for a huge portion of the world's plastic waste. There's still reason to be wary of its plastics crackdown.
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Kids Climate Case for Lack of Standing (Updated)
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finds the plaintiffs lack Article III standing in Juliana v. U.S.
California Gov. Newsom Picks Fish Over Farms
Newsom is leaning on the side of fish in the state's never-ending fish v. people debate, but is at least trying to deal with farm and urban water needs.
Britain's Plastic Bag Fee Is Producing a Huge Spike in the Consumption of Thicker, 'Reusable' Plastic Bags
The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head.
The Climate Debate Should Focus on How to Address the Threat of Climate Change, Not Whether Such a Threat Exists
Even non-apocalyptic assessments of existing climate science counsel in favor of taking climate change seriously
Why Don't Environmentalists Just Buy the Land They Want To Protect? Because It's Against the Rules.
Regulation and litigation rule the day, but sometimes cash should be king.
Forget Paris. It Was Never a Serious Way to Handle Climate Change
Conservatives (and others) should pursue alternative approaches to the threat of climate change.
Sen. Chuck Schumer Proposes Billions in Government Handouts to Kill Gas-Powered Cars
Say hello to "Cash for Clunkers 2.0."
Why Do Environmentalists Seem Determined To Torment, Rather Than Convince?
From plastic bag bans to plastic straw bans to bans on shampoo bottles in hotels, California is adopting supposedly environmental policies that won't save the environment but will piss off residents.
Study: Styrofoam Might Last Only Decades, Not Millennia, in the Ocean
Researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution say that sunlight can break down polystyrene within a few decades.
Did the Lochner Court Have a Green Thumb?
The Supreme Court known for its skepticism of government regulation nonetheless upheld early environmental protection efforts.
Think Globally, Shame Constantly: The Rise of Greta Thunberg Environmentalism
Her future—and that of the planet—hasn't been "stolen" and the best way forward is through serious policy discussion, not histrionics.
With A Republican in the White House, Democrats Rediscover the Virtues of Federalism
Give the Republican Party control of the White House and Congress, and it's only a matter of time before Democrats discover the virtues of devolving authority to state and local governments.
Climate Strike Disrupts D.C. Commutes
More than 1,000 activists march to protest the state of the environment.
