The ruling may well be both correct and consistent with the same court's earlier ruling in favor of a different set of plaintiffs arising from the same events. But the opinion does still have a few notable flaws.
A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?
Emissions reductions in rich countries are being offset by increases in developing countries.
Last night's caucus flop was a meltdown of small-d democracy.
When ritual is more important than reuse
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.
Good luck with that.
"Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome"
It's ridiculous to cut off Alaskans from the resources found in their own backyards.
Hysterical reactions greet the White House's modest changes to federal clean water rules.
The Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus urges Americans to reject both doomism and denialism.
No, Californians aren't banned from showering and doing laundry on the same day. But the fact that so many people believed that lie says something about how insane the state's real water laws are.
Discredited 18th-century economist Thomas Malthus still haunts the environmental debate.
China is responsible for a huge portion of the world's plastic waste. There's still reason to be wary of its plastics crackdown.
Meeting that goal would essentially restore U.S. forest area back to where it stood in 1630.
The Juliana v. United State climate litigation may continue.
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.
New proposed regulations from the White House's Council on Environmental Quality would limit how long federal environmental reviews could last.
The past five years have been the warmest of the last 140 years.
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.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health reportedly damaged monkeys' brains with acid before showing them pictures of fruit.
Maybe. Here's the evidence we have so far.
Texas is ignoring federal law to harass small farms.
As California moves to ban the sale of alligator products, alligator farmers and fashionistas are joining forces.
The polyethylene lining on the cheery seasonal drink containers does not meet the city's exacting composting requirements.
The solar industry has benefited from "temporary" tax credits for decades. These might finally be allowed to lapse.
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.
COP25 whimpers to its inconclusive close.
The reform could help formalize immigrant farm labor.
Teen activists are righteously angry—but righteous anger does not produce sound public policy.
Hope, despair, diplomatic equivocation
New York Attorney General Letitia James loses a trumped up fraud lawsuit against the oil company.
Can they do it fast enough to stop the African swine fever apocalypse?
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.
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?
The law of unintended consequences rears its ugly head.
Clean technologies can compete (and win) if barriers to participation are removed.
Even non-apocalyptic assessments of existing climate science counsel in favor of taking climate change seriously
Current evidence points toward a significantly warmer world by the end of the century. This will have substantial impacts on human life.
Government has tilted the scales in milk's favor for so long that dairies forgot how to compete.
Justice Alito dissents from the denial of certiorari in National Review v. Mann
Trump has authorized up to $16 billion in bailout spending this year, on top of $12 billion spent in 2018.
Regulation and litigation rule the day, but sometimes cash should be king.
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