Federal Court Invalidates "Lake Erie Bill of Rights"
Toledo's ballot initiative is "unconstitutionally vague and exceeds the power of municipal government in Ohio."
Energy & Environment
Trump's Agriculture Department Just Called Bull on a Key Part of His China Trade Deal
Instead of $12.5 billion in new agriculture purchases exports to China this year, the USDA expects less than $4 billion.
Republican Lawmakers Introduce Trillion Trees Act To Combat Climate Change
A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?
Peak Carbon Emissions?
Emissions reductions in rich countries are being offset by increases in developing countries.
Undercover Animal Rights Investigation Snares Iowa State Senator Who Sponsored State's Unconstitutional Ag-Gag Law
If you think the worse thing you can do to a pig is kill it, footage from Rozenboom's farm will disabuse you of that notion.
Worst-Case 'Climate Porn' Is Counterproductive to Addressing Real Climate Change
"Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome"
Trump Administration Repeals Federal Protections on Puddles, Dry Stream Beds, Some Ditches
Hysterical reactions greet the White House's modest changes to federal clean water rules.
Ecomodernism Is the Solution to Man-Made Climate Change
The Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus urges Americans to reject both doomism and denialism.
Population Control Isn't the Answer to Climate Change. Capitalism Is.
Discredited 18th-century economist Thomas Malthus still haunts the environmental debate.
Communist China Declares War on Single-Use Plastics
China is responsible for a huge portion of the world's plastic waste. There's still reason to be wary of its plastics crackdown.
Kids Climate Plaintiffs to Seek Rehearing En Banc
The Juliana v. United State climate litigation may continue.
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Kids Climate Case for Lack of Standing (Updated)
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finds the plaintiffs lack Article III standing in Juliana v. U.S.
The Trump Administration Wants To Speed Up the Delivery of Infrastructure Projects
New proposed regulations from the White House's Council on Environmental Quality would limit how long federal environmental reviews could last.
2019 Was Second Warmest Year on Record Says NOAA
The past five years have been the warmest of the last 140 years.
Is Climate Change Making Australia's Bushfires Worse?
Maybe. Here's the evidence we have so far.
Nonprofit Sues Overzealous Texas Regulators To Protect Small Farmers
Texas is ignoring federal law to harass small farms.
Activists Denounce Madrid Climate Change Conference Outcomes as 'Totally Unacceptable' and 'Deeply Flawed'
COP25 whimpers to its inconclusive close.
Bipartisan House Agriculture Bill Is a Win for Both Farmers and Immigrants
The reform could help formalize immigrant farm labor.
Here's What's Wrong with Time Declaring Greta Thunberg Person of the Year
Teen activists are righteously angry—but righteous anger does not produce sound public policy.
COP25: U.N. Climate Negotiations in Madrid Follow Traditional Dramatic Arc
Hope, despair, diplomatic equivocation
ExxonMobil Did Not Mislead Shareholders About Climate Risks, Rules New York Court
New York Attorney General Letitia James loses a trumped up fraud lawsuit against the oil company.
Chinese Researchers Are Trying To Edit Pigs' Genes To Resist Disease
Can they do it fast enough to stop the African swine fever apocalypse?
California Gov. Newsom Picks Fish Over Farms
Newsom is leaning on the side of fish in the state's never-ending fish v. people debate, but is at least trying to deal with farm and urban water needs.
Britain's Plastic Bag Fee Is Producing a Huge Spike in the Consumption of Thicker, 'Reusable' Plastic Bags
The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head.
Clean Free Market Policy Beats a Carbon Tax. Here's Why.
Clean technologies can compete (and win) if barriers to participation are removed.
The Climate Debate Should Focus on How to Address the Threat of Climate Change, Not Whether Such a Threat Exists
Even non-apocalyptic assessments of existing climate science counsel in favor of taking climate change seriously
Climate Change: How Lucky Do You Feel?
Current evidence points toward a significantly warmer world by the end of the century. This will have substantial impacts on human life.
The Nation's Biggest Dairy Is Failing Despite Relentless Government Intervention
Government has tilted the scales in milk's favor for so long that dairies forgot how to compete.
SCOTUS Takes a Pass on Michael Mann's Defamation Suit (at least for now)
Justice Alito dissents from the denial of certiorari in National Review v. Mann
Why Don't Environmentalists Just Buy the Land They Want To Protect? Because It's Against the Rules.
Regulation and litigation rule the day, but sometimes cash should be king.
We Likely Won't Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions 45 Percent by 2030
The "New World Energy Outlook" report by the International Energy Agency suggests global warming is here to stay.
Why Raw Butter Producers Are Suing the FDA
Raw butterists are understandably salty about a prohibition on interstate commerce.
Stupid Federal Shipping Regulations Will Prevent Alaskans From Buying Alaskan Natural Gas
The Jones Act isn't saving American shipbuilders, but it's driving up prices for Americans.
Forget Paris. It Was Never a Serious Way to Handle Climate Change
Conservatives (and others) should pursue alternative approaches to the threat of climate change.
Sen. Chuck Schumer Proposes Billions in Government Handouts to Kill Gas-Powered Cars
Say hello to "Cash for Clunkers 2.0."
Why Do Environmentalists Seem Determined To Torment, Rather Than Convince?
From plastic bag bans to plastic straw bans to bans on shampoo bottles in hotels, California is adopting supposedly environmental policies that won't save the environment but will piss off residents.
Study: Styrofoam Might Last Only Decades, Not Millennia, in the Ocean
Researchers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution say that sunlight can break down polystyrene within a few decades.
The Third Lesson of Economics
Henry Hazlitt's insights were far more sophisticated than one modern critic thinks.
Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change?
Eating meat doesn't have as big of an impact on the environment as you've been told.
Did the Lochner Court Have a Green Thumb?
The Supreme Court known for its skepticism of government regulation nonetheless upheld early environmental protection efforts.
The World Needs Innovators, Not Lectures From Teens, to Solve Climate Change
Finger-wagging won't overcome the collective action problems preventing action.
Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster, Says New Report
Sea level rise is accelerating and marine heatwaves are becoming more common
Think Globally, Shame Constantly: The Rise of Greta Thunberg Environmentalism
Her future—and that of the planet—hasn't been "stolen" and the best way forward is through serious policy discussion, not histrionics.
With A Republican in the White House, Democrats Rediscover the Virtues of Federalism
Give the Republican Party control of the White House and Congress, and it's only a matter of time before Democrats discover the virtues of devolving authority to state and local governments.
