The Case for Tradeable Permits in Dead Birds
A push toward wind energy threatens to kill more eagles. Markets can help.
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.
Climate protesters who blocked an interstate outside D.C. likely cost a man his parole.
"It's an outrageous outcome to label gas and nuclear as green," responds Greenpeace
The average gas station owner makes pennies per gallon of gas sold.
In her forceful West Virginia v. EPA dissent, Justice Kagan challenges the majority's commitment to textualism.
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Any future regulations will require clear authorization from Congress.
Chief Justice Roberts writes for a six-justice majority in West Virginia v. EPA.
The United States should consider adopting a market-based strategy for increasing electric vehicle usage.
Strongly held wishes and pixie dust won’t deliver a green utopia.
Environmental Protection Agency
No matter how the Supreme Court rules in West Virginia v. EPA, absent legislative action it is unlikely new power plant rules will be in force before 2024.
A New York Times piece on conservative legal challenges to climate regulations characterizes the balance of the D.C. Circuit in a most unusual way.
Three environmentalists groups had argued that the city failed to perform a state-required environmental analysis of its Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan.
Oil companies won’t invest in facilities to produce gasoline until they know they’ll be allowed a future.
With upticks in cities with greater proportions of immigrant laborers and homeless people
Removing tariffs could save American households $800 this year. What is the White House waiting for?
The WHO said it will rename the virus after researchers complained that the current name is "stigmatizing" and "discriminatory."
A new proposed regulation from the Department of Energy would effectively require homeowners to shift to more expensive, more efficient condensing gas furnaces.
It’s one of many anti-cryptocurrency policies emanating from the Empire State
The Federal Reserve started the problem, and consumers are paying for the consequences.
The original Jurassic Park is the best summer movie ever. The latest sequel just wants to remind you the original exists.