The Spending Bill Got Smaller, but It's Still Full of Bad Ideas
Plus, speculation around Virginia's heated gubernatorial race
Plus, speculation around Virginia's heated gubernatorial race
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A surprising grant of certiorari places a high-stakes regulatory case on the Court's docket, with profound implications for EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
Nuisance claims may not be a particularly effective way to address the problem of climate change, but federal law does not preempt state common law nuisance claims seeking compensatory damages.
This is Denis Villeneuve's movie, but it's fully Frank Herbert's Dune.
But at least state lawmakers also passed some useful criminal justice bills and policing reforms.
Businesses, investors, and markets are already adapting to climate change without federal help.
"You have showers where I can't wash my hair properly. It's a disaster!" said Trump in 2015.
Donald Trump legalized energy-hungry short-cycle dishwashers. The current administration is undoing that progress.
Without attention to the onerous permitting process for offshore wind and other energy projects, efforts will be plagued by costly delays.
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Karla Vermeulen's Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11 is a starting place to mend the new generation gap.
Demand Justice's Balls and Strikes provides more heat than light.
The White House is undoing changes to the National Environmental Policy Act that were supposed to speed up the delivery of infrastructure projects.
The beef checkoff problem raises prices without benefiting ranchers
The D.C. Circuit rejected the Trump Administration's approach to regulating power plant emissions of greenhouse gases. Some states and industry groups want the Supreme Court to take a look.
Governments may not be able to make an economy, but they've proven they can break it.
Talk of a ban follows declining popularity of dog as a restaurant dish.
They give an edge to big companies that have no problems accessing capital and whose executives are often well-connected with politicians.
Young people who came of age after 9/11 aren't snowflakes despite being exposed to a series of catastrophic events and apocalyptic news narratives.
And, within those policies deemed "carbon pricing," a carbon tax is preferable to cap-and-trade.
The $3.5 trillion bill includes a new program to subsidize the makers of "sustainable aviation fuel."
Here and abroad, laws and policies meant to protect sustainability aren't delivering and cost a fortune.
Corporate welfare hurts the people who actually need help.
Innovations in epidemiological statistics, artificial fertilizer, toilets, sanitation systems, and vaccines have allowed billions of people to flourish until old age.
A bill intended to make America's housing stock more climate-resilient also includes a big effective subsidy for the properties most exposed to the risks of climate change.
The risk of dying from extreme weather since the 1920s has dropped by 99.75 percent.
Who thought it was a good idea to give the government control over marketing?
"By excluding environmental groups, we get a distorted picture about the value of our natural resources,” says Shawn Regan of the Property and Environment Research Center.
The findings of the newest IPCC report on the future of the planet—called a "code red" for humanity—have been wildly distorted.
Researchers have developed a promising and "infinitely recyclable" plastic called polydiketoenamine.
Dismissing climate science, the IPCC, and the costs of climate change are neither prudent nor responsible.
The West needs markets in water, not allocations based on political considerations.
Environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr. says many media interpretations of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are "irresponsible."
Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed the creation of a counterproductive $130 billion federal behemoth.
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change issues its Sixth Assessment Report on the global climate.
An attempt to reduce idle electricity consumption actually incentivizes selling more powerful equipment.
The technique "could potentially help address problems of poverty and food insecurity at a global scale."
A week after granting summary judgment for another defendant (CEI), the judge rejects all but one of the proffered experts.
Why is the government encouraging people to live in dangerous, flood-prone areas?
Language regarding seed exchanges could violate contracts.
Another significant loss for the controversial climate scientist, though his cases against two remaining defendants will continue.
Taxing Americans to punish other countries for having lax environmental rules would be a logistical and bureaucratic nightmare. Democrats are trying to do it anyway.
Without the prospect of Supreme Court review, does the district court still have jurisdiction to consider a settlement?
"Pay no attention to those states claiming you lack jurisdiction to approve a settlement."