'The Intellectual Johnny Appleseed of the Counterculture'
A conversation with Whole Earth Catalog founder, Merry Prankster, and woolly mammoth de-extinctionist Stewart Brand.
Energy & Environment
Vegan Group Sues the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Promoting Dairy Products
The government should let milk marketing stand on its own four legs.
Will Biden's '30 by 30′ Conservation Plan Protect Both Property Rights and Wild Landscapes?
"Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest," wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold.
Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Will Hurt the Environment
The president says fighting climate change is one of his primary goals. His legislation would do no such thing.
Prevent Human Epidemics by Infecting Wild Animals With Self-Disseminating Vaccines
The upsides and the possible downsides of transmissible vaccines .
A Supreme Court Eminent Domain Case Both Sides Deserve to Lose
PennEast v. New Jersey features a clash between the power of eminent domain and state sovereign immunity.
12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence
The data behind apocalypse 2030 is based on placing blame, not predicting the future.
Democrats Learn to Love the Congressional Review Act
Senate Democrats vote to repeal a Trump Administration regulation easing restrictions on methane emissions.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Will Face Recall Vote
Secretary of State’s office verifies his opponents have gathered enough valid signatures.
Webinar on the Economics and Law of Climate Adaptation
Adapting to Climate Change: Economic and Legal Perspectives featuring Matthew Kahn and Robin Craig
No, Biden Isn't Coming for Your Burgers
Plus: Donor disclosure fight hits Supreme Court, school choice momentum, and more...
HBO Documents the Tragic Tale of Lucy, the Chimp Raised Like a Human
An experiment to see if nurture could overcome nature did not end well.
Lessons of an Effort to Compensate Victims of an Unjust Use of Eminent Domain a Century after it Happened
Los Angeles County, California, plans to return land unjustly seized from a black family in 1924.
The Government Is Making Us Fat and Susceptible to Viruses
The vast majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are overweight. Why won’t the government stop subsidizing junk food?
Biden Will Promise To Cut U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 50 Percent by 2030
The plan would require a substantial retirement of machines that run on fossil fuels.
Climate Change Activists Need To Get Serious About Nuclear Power
It would significantly reduce carbon emissions, but onerous regulation stands in the way.
Food Freedom Is Coming To Colorado
The state legislature and Gov. Jared Polis are unshackling local ranchers and consumers.
Biden's $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Is Teeming With Cronyism
Democrats never miss an opportunity to rail against big corporations. Yet they're eagerly subsidizing their big corporate friends.
Biden Wants To 'Make America California.' Here's Why That's a Terrible Idea.
So many people are leaving the state that it will soon lose a congressional seat.
Why Isn't California Safer From Wildfires?
An environmental law keeps public agencies from reducing wildfire fuel.
We Are As Gods: Stewart Brand & The Fight to Bring Back Woolly Mammoths
From "stay hungry, stay foolish" to "try everything, take nothing off the table."
Senator Schumer Protects Wealthy Landowners from Paying Risk-Based Flood Insurance Premiums
Effective climate adaptation depends upon effective price signals. So why is the Senate Majority Leader standing in the way?
Why Does American Infrastructure Cost More and Take Longer To Build Than It Used To?
A series of laws passed in the 1970s may have permanently hamstrung American infrastructure development.
Are Federal Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulations A Sensible Strategy for Climate Change?
If there is an urgent need for emission reductions, regulatory ossification and legal risks counsel the consideration of other approaches, such as a carbon tax.
A California Law Allows Union Organizers To Invade Farms Without Permission. This Lawsuit Wants To Change That.
The Supreme Court will decide if the rule violates property rights.
Why Are Members of Congress Trying To Ban the Importation of Kangaroo Meat?
Congress should rue the day it hopped on the kangaroo-meat ban.
Stewart Brand: We Are (Still) As Gods
The former Merry Prankster and Whole Earth Catalog founder talks about psychedelics, computers, bringing back woolly mammoths, and his new documentary.
Mandating Indoor Cannabis Cultivation Is Bad for the Environment
Legalizing interstate sales and allowing outdoor growing would reduce the cannabis industry's energy consumption.
Sierra Club Inches Toward Accepting Genetically Modified Chestnut Trees
Let's restore this giant to America's forests.
Cultivated Meat Projected To Be Cheaper Than Conventional Beef by 2030
And produced with a much lower environmental footprint
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.
Elon Musk, Welfare King!
The tech billionaire isn't alone among the mega-wealthy in getting piles of money from government at all levels, say the authors of Welfare for the Rich.
Michigan Farmer Rescued Injured Animals Without the Proper Permits. State Officials Have Charged Her With a Misdemeanor and Euthanized the Animals.
State officials euthanized six of Julie Hall's animals, including Sassy, a blind raccoon, and Po, a one-legged crow.
Wildlife as Property Owners Webinar
An examination of how reconceiving animal rights might aid wildlife conservation
Conservationists Pushed Ban on Non-Fatal Rhino Horn Harvesting. Poaching Skyrocketed.
Environmental activists should use the market to their advantage.
The Texas Blackout Blame Game
Neither wind power nor deregulation are responsible for the Texas power disaster.
Biden's Manufacturing Plan Is $700 Billion Worth of Protectionism
Never let a good manufactured crisis go to waste
Renewable Energy Is Not the Chief Cause of Texas' Power Outages
The vast majority of the shortfall is from failures at fossil fuel-powered plants.
Ninth Circuit Denies Petition for En Banc Rehearing in Kids Climate Case
The plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States may now file a petition for certiorari. They should be careful what they wish for.
What Would It Take To Reach Biden's Carbon-Free Electric Power Goal by 2035?
Parsing technology trends, policy proposals, and clean tax cuts
How Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela's Spectacular Oil Wealth
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. It's out of gasoline.
Biden Debuts Massive New Climate Bureaucracy
Plus: Senate Conservatives Fund rallies for Hawley, Trump's popularity is rising again, and more...
Some Local Governments Are Still Punishing People for Having a Few Chickens
A Pennsylvania couple is fighting an inane local ban on raising a handful of ducks and chickens in their backyard.
2020 Is in a Near Tie for Hottest Year in the Modern Temperature Record
The last seven years have been the warmest seven years on record.
U.S. More Than Meets Pledged Copenhagen Climate Accord Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts
"The vast majority of 2020's emission reductions were due to decreased economic activity."
Biden Pledges to Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement
His plan says that by 2035, no electric power should be generated by burning fossil fuels, and the U.S. should commit to zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
