Environmentalism
A Spectacularly Stupid Idea: Governing Land as a Global Commons
Making an environmental resource a commons is tantamount to calling for its destruction.
There Is No Political Tribe That Deserves Your Complete Loyalty
Commit to principles and ideals, not politicians.
Plow Field, Pay Government $35 Million?
It's happening in California, where the case goes to penalty trial in August, if the Trump administration doesn't stop it before then.
The New York Times' Hostility to Industry Gets Worse
The paper of record has it in for Pebble Mine, and for industry in general.
The Left Is Rebranding Environmental Regulations As Environmental Protections
Cloaking government control in the language of benevolence.
Left Rebrands Environmental Regulations As Environmental Protections: New at Reason
And the news media are going along with it.
Earth's Forest Area 9 Percent Greater Than Thought
Satellite survey finds hidden forests all over the world.
EPA Bureaucracy Strikes Back: The Case of the Board of Scientific Counselors
How will the struggle between the permanent bureaucracy and the EPA's new leadership play out?
Climate Change, Scientism, and the Politics of Certitude
New York Times columnist notes the uncertainties in climate science; progressives want him fired.
Scientists' March on Washington
Do researchers risk becoming just another leftwing interest group?
Earth Day Dopes
Alarmists claim they're for "science," but what they're really for is a left-wing religion.
Oil Sands Pipeline from Canada Is in U.S. National Interest
State Department reverses Obama ruling and permits construction of Keystone Pipeline.
Relax: Gutting the EPA Won't Make Your Air Dirtier and Water More Polluted
There have been diminishing returns to federal pollution regulation for a long time
Scott Pruitt Emails Reveal He Consulted with Industry About Regulations
Another tiresome example of selective political outrage ensues.
Protester Trash and Debris Threaten Water Contamination at Dakota Access Pipeline
Clean-up efforts are in a race to beat the coming floods.
Trump, Obama, and the Approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline
A sad example of how arbitrary politically motivated bureaucratic decisions are replacing the rule of law
Rachel Carson: New Documentary on PBS Tonight
We are all still living in the intellectual and public policy world that Rachel Carson constructed.
Desalination Foes Privileging Tiny Critters Over People
California environmental regulations go too far.
EPA's New Fracking Report and Regulatory Science
The new report appears to be a parting gift to anti-fracking activists from the Obama administration.
Trump on Energy: 'The Best of Any President Since Reagan'? Q/A With Alex Epstein
The author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels on global warming, fracking, Ayn Rand, and the president-elect.
Guess Who Just Approved a Pipeline to Transport Canadian Oilsands Crude?
Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, that's who. Does this make Obama look like a chump for nixing Keystone XL?
Washington State Carbon Tax Initiative Voted Down
Leading environmentalist groups hated its revenue neutrality
ExxonMobil Climate 'Fraud' Investigation Follies Continue
New court ruling requires oil company to hand over accounting records
Greens Against a Carbon Tax in Washington State
For some progressives it is more important to redistribute tax money than to save the climate.
Coastal Commission Abuse Smacked Down by Court
Courts push back on property rights violations
Predictions of the Death of Wilderness May Be a Bit Premature
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
EPA Says It Needs Eight More Years to Decide if Ethanol Mandate Is Bad for the Environment
It is, as everyone who isn't a corn farmer will tell you.
Solar and Wind Power Won't Work Without Natural Gas as a Back-Up, Says New Study
To be against fracking is to be against renewable energy.
The Nuclear War Over Climate Change
If global warming is a problem, it is idiotic for environmentalists to oppose nuclear power.
Nuclear Warfare Between the Greens: New at Reason
The fight over treating nuclear power on a similar footing with other low-carbon energy sources
Supreme Court Rules 8-0 for Landowners Fighting Clean Water Act Regulations
SCOTUS issues important property rights victory in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co, Inc.
California Looking for More Chances to Punish Businesses over Climate Change Positions
Some want to legally target those who donate to think tanks that encourage skepticism.
Yes, the World is Getting Better. Here's Why.
Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.
One-Fifth of Earth's Plants Threatened with Extinction
Recent trends on population, farmland, deforestation, and urbanization are cause for optimism.
You're Now Free to Have a Hippie, Crunchy Funeral in Alabama
New law ends occupational license-mandated monopoly on casket sales.
Less than Half of Americans Identify as "Environmentalists," Says New Poll
Fearmongering seems to be backfiring
Happy Earth Day: A Reprise of Failed Doom
A trip down memory lane of failed Earth Day predictions past.
Earth Day: U.S. and 170 Countries Sign Paris Climate Agreement: New at Reason
Saving the planet or just massively expanding activist and bureaucratic power?
Glyphosate Found in Some Cereals: Alarmists Generate Useless Panic
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
Are State Attorneys General Attacking Climate Change Critics Engaging in a Conspiracy?
Glenn Reynolds, the law professor behind Instapundit.com thinks so.
Ronald Bailey Speaking at Florida Gulf Coast University on Saturday
Students for Liberty Conference on Free Market Environmentalism
Use Property Rights to Save Fisheries Around the Globe, Says New Study
Anything you think of as an environmental problem is occurring in an open-access commons.
