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.
Energy & Environment
2019 Was Second Warmest Year on Record Says NOAA
The past five years have been the warmest of the last 140 years.
California Killed 1.2 Million Birds To Stop a Virus. Pet Owners Say They Were Terrorized.
The euthanasia campaign may be necessary to prevent the spread of the Newcastle disease, but bird owners say that it's being carried out in a cruel manner.
Fed Scientists Filmed Themselves Giving Monkeys Brain Damage. A Watchdog Group Wants the Footage.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health reportedly damaged monkeys' brains with acid before showing them pictures of fruit.
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.
Louisiana Alligator Farmers and Malibu Fashion Retailers Team Up
As California moves to ban the sale of alligator products, alligator farmers and fashionistas are joining forces.
Minneapolis' 'Green To Go' Ordinance Inadvertently Bans Starbucks Holiday Cups
The polyethylene lining on the cheery seasonal drink containers does not meet the city's exacting composting requirements.
Congress' Budget Deal Kills Solar Industry Tax Credits
The solar industry has benefited from "temporary" tax credits for decades. These might finally be allowed to lapse.
Court Rules Federal Government Flooding of Homes During Hurricane Harvey is a Taking
The decision is significant in itself and has important implications for other cases where the government deliberately damages private property in the process of coping with natural disasters.
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.
The Madcap Scheme to Take Syria's Oil
American troops are risking their lives to defend Syrian oil fields, but U.S. law is stopping anyone from using the oil. One man tried to “fix” the situation—or was it a con?
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
Trump's Farm Bailout Has Cost Over $10 Billion This Year
Trump has authorized up to $16 billion in bailout spending this year, on top of $12 billion spent in 2018.
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.
Puppies and Kittens Trump the Constitution
The new federal ban on animal cruelty converts the Commerce Clause into a general police power.
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.
New York's Place as America's Fine-Dining Mecca in Jeopardy As City Bans Foie Gras
The ban targets upstate and international farmers and city restaurants alike.
End the Failed Renewable Fuel Standard Experiment
Why Congress should abolish the ethanol mandate.
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.
Congress Tortures the Constitution To Obtain Permission for a Federal Animal Cruelty Law
Where does Congress get the authority to redundantly criminalize abuse of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles?
Gavin Newsom, Supporter of Massive Gas Tax Hike, Demands Investigation of $4 per Gallon CA Gas Prices
The governor's request comes after the release of a report finding the state's taxes and regulations explain half of the higher prices Golden State motorists pay.
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
