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 Japan can get over its anti-nuclear Fukushima freak out, then the rest of the world should too.
If the Golden State wants to convert to electrical vehicles, it better start embracing nuclear power.
Ignoring the principles of supply and demand, Fetterman thinks high gas prices should be a matter for law enforcement.
Multiple state agencies told Sheriff Randy ‘Country’ Seal that he had no right to collect taxes from a rancher in his parish. He sued anyway.
The Norwegian government euthanized Freya the walrus on Sunday, citing safety concerns for the crowds that gathered to watch her sunbathe.
America gets about 42 megawatts of power from offshore wind. Another 18,000 megawatts are currently tied up in permitting battles.
Why should we believe that this boondoggle will produce better results than hundreds of other corporate welfare programs?
Five Circuits have considered, and rejected, fossil fuel efforts to get state-law tort and nuisance claims removed to federal court. Will their luck change in the Supreme Court?
Leaving the country dependent on Russian natural gas was not too smart.
This stunt to save energy will do very little but make people sweat
Asking America's agriculture industry to stand on its own two feet remains a third rail in American politics.
Brayton Point was a coal-fired plant that tried to clean up its act. Protesters and politicians demanded its closure. A new offshore wind project won't be sufficient to replace it.
Thanks to some amazing recent crop biotech breakthroughs
Frank Javier Fonseca's punishment, which may amount to a life sentence, is a microcosm for many of the issues with the U.S. criminal legal system.
Prices for food and housing continued to rise but were offset by lower gas and energy prices.
Even Democrats are criticizing the bill's unrealistic expectations.
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.
Plus: Inside Trump's family separation policy, a Grammarly for government, and more...
California should build infrastructure, not shame water users.
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey surveys the provisions within the recent Inflation Reduction Act aimed at curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
A 40 percent cut in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 is possibly achievable.
The West Virginia senator proposes marginal reforms to a federal permitting process that policy wonks say needs a root-and-branch overhaul.
My forthcoming article the good, the bad, and the likely implications of the Supreme Court's decision West Virginia v. EPA
A push toward wind energy threatens to kill more eagles. Markets can help.
Plus: The editors each analyze their biggest “I was wrong” moment from past work.
But it will hike taxes, including on Americans earning less than $200,000 annually.
Unrealistic policy and dependency on fickle neighbors like Russia are no substitute for working power plants.
Implementing policy is supposed to be difficult given that it could affect millions of people’s lives.
Tariffs were supposed to make American chemical products more competitive. They made Chinese products more competitive instead.
What Florida gets right about using controlled burns to prevent damaging wildfires, and what California could learn from it.
But does not declare that it is a "national emergency."
How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat?
If the National Emergencies Act goes without reform, presidents will continue to misuse emergency declarations as leverage to shift Congress.
The state's Endangered Species Act doesn't protect insects, so environmentalists and government officials intent on helping bees had to get creative.
The Senate is considering legislation that would improve the visa program for temporary agricultural workers and help relieve labor shortages that push food prices higher.
Good intentions, bad results.
Rebutting Democrats' gaseous words on refiners' greed.
"We've crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe. It's time for you to pass it," proclaim staffers in a letter to Congressional leaders.
The Supreme Court is skeptical of agency efforts to pour new wine out of old bottles.
"If government is big enough to give you anything, it's big enough to take everything away from you."
Plus: The editors answer the question “How would you change the Constitution?”
Blaming oil companies and Vladimir Putin for our current energy woes is dishonest and unhelpful.
We need to clearcut the government regulations hampering efforts to effectively battle wildfires.
Here's hoping we don't wind up with more of the spending and favoritism that's become so common.
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