Environmentalism
How California Could Have Avoided Its Epic Water Crisis
Joel Kotkin on the causes and repercussions of the Golden State disaster.
Doomster Paul Ehrlich Unrepentant: "My language would be even more apocalyptic today."
And still just as wrong
Earth Day Overload: Gov. Jerry's Brown Apocalyptic "Warning to Humanity"
Hit the snooze bar on environmentalist alarmism. Virtually everything is getting better when it comes to the state of the planet.
Lopsided Bureaucratic Rationing Won't Cure California's Water Crisis
What's needed is market pricing
Hey, Kids! The National Security Agency Wants You to Recycle!
Big Brother loves Mother Earth.
The Big Coffee Table Book of Doom!
Neo-Malthusians again predict doom to celebrate Earth Day 45
Imposing Energy Poverty on Poor Countries Is NOT Sustainable Development
You cannot solve climate change by denying the poor access to energy.
How Do You Like Them Non-Browning Apples, and Potatoes Too?
We don't, say the bioluddites over at Friends of the Earth and Consumers Union
Scott Walker Flip-Flops in Favor of Federal Ethanol Mandate
Wisconsin governor, no stranger to corporate welfare, sings a new tune in front of Iowa farmers
This Utah Cop May Have Conceived the Worst Argument Yet for Pot Prohibition
Legalization will bring an epidemic of stoned bunnies, or something.
President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Legislation
Evidently bows to environmentalist lobby
America's Least Sprawling City Is…Los Angeles?
Forget the clichés. L.A. isn't the capital of sprawl.
Keystone XL Pipeline: Threatened Veto As Symbolic Progressivism
House approves Keystone XL pipeline construction.
What Would Environmentalists Do If They Owned ANWR?
Consider the costs and benefits to things like drilling for oil, for one.
Shutting Down Alaska
President Obama's campaign against oil drilling in Alaska has devastating effects for the state.
EPA Hates On the Keystone XL Pipeline: Gives Obama an Excuse to Deny Construction Permit
A novel idea: Why not let the builders decide whether or not it is economic to construct?
Senate Votes 60 to 36 For Keystone XL Pipeline: Obama Veto Pen Ready?
Symbolic vetoes are not in the national interest.
BPA Safe: Yet Another Scientifically Unfounded Environmentalist Scare Bites the Dust
European Food Safety Authority finds "no consumer health risk from bisphenol-A exposure."
EPA Reform: 6 Crucial Areas Congress Should Investigate
Proper investigations could help publicize the agency's looniness and yield further details about the agency's questionable methods and relationships.
How the Government Subsidizes Unsustainable Development
'The rest of us are assuming all of the risks.'
Climate Change Versus Climate Catastrophe
Instead of talking about "climate change"-which will happen with or without human influence-we should focus on "climate catastrophe," weather that actually kills people.
Why China Is Cooperating on Climate Change
With China, we have a worrisome rival and an indispensable partner.
Stillborn Utopia
Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.
The U.S.-China Climate Change Deal Is Terrible. Fortunately, It Doesn't Matter
Guess what? America is not really doing anything we weren't going to do anyway, and neither is China.
Can We Save Nature by Making It Economically Useless?
"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.
Is Capitalism Environmentally Unsustainable?
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
The City of South Miami Wants to Split Florida in Two
Climate-change fears don't always lead to calls for centralization.
Government Agencies Use Their Power to Bolster Their Own Budgets
A northern California legal case involving state and federal efforts to secure a massive financial settlement from the state's largest land owner is rife with allegations of fraud, corruption, and official misconduct
Capitalism and Climate Change
The problem today is not that capitalism can't function without ruining the environment, but that the public isn't demanding serious action against global warming.