U.S. Cancer Incidence and Death Rates Fall to a 25-Year Low
Good news: The cancer death rate which stood in 1991 at 215 per 100,000 people has dropped in 2016 to 156 per 100,000 people.
Energy & Environment
Despite Climate Change, There Will Be Enough Food for 10 Billion in 2050
Food security is not the problem, but nutrition security could be.
Remy: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Government plays Santa Claus with your tax money.
Economists Love Carbon Taxes. Lots of Regular Folks Don't.
Raising the price of gasoline, heat, and electricity is a steep political hill to climb.
Will Uprisings Thwart Green Central Planners?
Ordinary people aren't willing to pay higher costs just to fulfill the grand visions of environmentalists.
Congress Just Passed a Farm Bill That Legalizes Industrial Hemp. Other Than That, It's a Disaster.
The House Freedom Caucus calls it "a sprawling, cronyist agriculture bill."
Republican Leaders Sneak Support for Yemen War Into Farm Bill Vote: Reason Roundup
Plus: Google hearing once again reveals legislative ignorance on tech and IRS auditors target more low-income taxpayers.
Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA Wants to Get Out of Puddles and Ditches. Environmental Activists Are Outraged.
A welcome new federal approach under the Clean Water Act.
Can the Democrats Really Win 2020 with a New Green Deal?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks so.
My Puzzlement Over Climate Change Damage Estimates in New National Climate Assessment
Implausible worst-case scenarios do not further the debate over reasonable policies for addressing climate change.
Is Kids Climate Case Coming to an End?
The "trial of the century" may not happen after all.
National Climate Report Projects Future Weather and Economic Trends
"Climate-related threats to Americans' physical, social, and economic well-being are rising," says report.
Widely Reported Alarming Ocean Warming Study Is Wrong
Skeptic of catastrophic climate change projections is right about significant errors in alarming new study.
Union of Concerned Scientists For Nukes!
Activist group finally recognizes that it can't achieve its energy and climate goals without nuclear power.
An Alarming New Study Suggests the Oceans Are Warming 60 Percent Faster. A Statistician Disagrees.
Is the study's worst-case climate scenario wrong?
Washington State Carbon Tax Initiative Loses
Did voters recognize it as a green pork-barrel scheme?
Natural Disasters Are Destroying a Lower Percentage of Humanity's Stuff Since 1990
Absolute losses increased, but the proportion of losses relative to global GDP has dropped
What Would the Washington State Carbon Fee Initiative Really Accomplish?
Very little carbon reduction, lots of political patronage.
Extending the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Undermines Tax Reform
Real reform requires simplifying the tax code.
Oregon Oysterman's Poop Problem Shows Need for Market-Based Regulations
If we want fresh oysters, good cheeses, and clean water, we should rethink how we regulate all three.
Just Stop With the Climate-Change Disease Scaremongering, OK?
No, global warming will not spark a black death pandemic that kills millions
How Big of a Deal Is an Extra Half Degree of Global Warming?
New report declares world must be off fossil fuels entirely by 2050.
Unlimited Growth and Climate Change Economists Win Nobel Prize
Paul Romer overturns limits-to-growth nonsense, and William Nordhaus projects climate change damages.
Should Dried Up Tree Frog Sex Ponds Limit Property Rights?
The Supreme Court will rule on whether the Endangered Species Act has failed wildlife and private property owners alike.
Gov. Brown Signs Stupid Straw Bill
California in a nutshell: Laws that "feel good" but don't work pass. One that might actually help kids gets vetoed.
High Yield Modern Farming Better for the Environment, Says Nature Study
Low yield organic farming uses up lots more land and harms biodiversity
We Should Eliminate Federal Electric Vehicle Subsidies for Rich People
79 percent of the EV tax credits go to households with adjusted gross incomes of $100,000 or higher
If You Hate Ice Ages, Thank a Farmer
Chopping down forests and irrigating rice paddies boosted greenhouse gases enough to prevent the onset of a new ice age
Pope Francis Calls for Global Regulations to Solve the Oceans' Plastic Pollution Problem
A lack of international regulations did not cause the plastic pollution crisis. Imposing them now won't fix the problem.
The United Nations Cites Bad Straw Stats While Lauding Latin American Bans
Pushing punitive bans is a strange activity for an organization dedicated to defending human rights.
New Jersey Gov. Vetoes Plastic Bag Fee Because It Doesn't 'Go Far Enough'
Environmental groups hope for an outright ban instead.
NASA Administrator: We Need a Space Force to Save Energy Grid From 'Existential Threat'
Is another bureaucracy really going to solve the problem?
The New Farm Bill Is Going To Suck
Just like the last one. And the one before that. And the one before that.
Rounding Up the Science Behind the Monsanto Glyphosate Ruling
"Irrational and even hysterical" reporting about glyphosate has served to poison the well of public opinion, says one researcher
Will EPA Trump California's Clean Air Act Waiver?
The Trump Administration is seeking to roll back federal automotive fuel economy standards and prevent California from maintaining more stringent standards of its own.
Portland's Clean Energy Tax Is Direct Democracy at Its Worst
Environmentalist groups are supporting a ballot initiative that raises taxes on retailers and consumers in order to pay for grants to environmentalist groups.
The Republican Carbon Tax Bill Would Create Powerful Commission With Access to All Government Data
The "National Climate Commission" would institutionalize special interests that favor taxes to combat climate change.
Don't Ban Straws
Banning straws "might make some politicians feel good, but it won't actually accomplish anything good."
Starbucks Wants to Send More Plastic to a Recycling Industry in Crisis
Thanks to Chinese restrictions on imported recyclables, even less of America's waste is getting reused.
Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic
A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo.
Oil Prices Are Rising. Don't Expect Trump's Tweets to Lower Them.
If the president does want to lower oil prices, he could push Congress to expand domestic oil production.
Trump's Trade War Targets Second-Most-American Pie Filling
Cherry growers get hit with steep tariffs right in the middle of their harvest season.
Is Membership in a Conservation Organization Proof of Criminal Intent to Harm Cattle?
Prosecutors in southern Utah have argued that they can prove that the closing of a corral gate was the crime of attempted wanton destruction of livestock by pointing to a defendant's membership in a conservation organization. Today I argue to the Utah Court of Appeals that it should review the First Amendment implications of the prosecutors' maneuver.
Seattle's First-in-the-Nation Straw Ban Goes Into Effect. More Will Follow.
The latest environmental craze claims another victory.
Laws That Are 'Impossible' to Follow Can Still Be Constitutional, Says California Court
Just because you cannot comply doesn't mean the law cannot exist.
Activists Say Straws Should Be Banned Because They Are a 'Gateway Plastic'
Advocates hope a straw ban will be the first step toward broader plastic prohibitions.
Impossible Burger Maker Denounces Friends of the Earth Activists As 'Anti-Science Fundamentalists'
Fear mongering over ingredients derived from genetically modified yeast
Federal Judge Dismisses Climate Change Damage Lawsuits Against Big Oil
Is it really fair for we who benefited from fossil fuels to blame for global warming on those who supplied what we demanded?
