In a State of Emergency, the President Can Control Your Phone, Your TV, and Even Your Light Switches
Under a little-known regulation that dates back to the 1930s, the president has legal power over electronic transmissions.
Energy & Environment
A Presidential Tweet Can't Stop the TVA from Shuttering Two Coal-Fired Generation Plants
So far, Trump's efforts to subsidize his coal cronies have failed.
What Happened at the House Science Committee Hearing on the State of the Climate, and Why It Matters
Extreme weather events around the globe have tripled since the 1980s, but what's happening in the U.S.?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: A Bizarre Grab-Bag of Terrible Ideas
Q&A with economist Veronique de Rugy.
The Co-Sponsor of the Green New Deal Thinks Mitch McConnell's Plan to Hold a Vote on It Is 'Sabotage' and a 'Republican Trick'
Ed Markey believes the time to vote on urgently necessary climate change legislation is...later.
Zoning Makes the Green New Deal Impossible
A bad idea is made worse by its inability to grapple with local land use restrictions.
Think the Green New Deal Is Crazy? Blame Intersectionality.
The left loves fringe causes, like providing welfare to people who are "unwilling to work."
Green New Deal—Same Old Progressive Policies
Using climate change to justify government-guaranteed jobs, health care, and housing.
How Much Will the Green New Deal Cost?
Climate change is the excuse; radically remaking the American economy is the aim.
Trump Praises America's Oil and Natural Gas Production in State of the Union Address
The U.S. is the world's biggest producer of oil and natural gas
Fewer U.S. Cold Waves
Cold waves aren't as common as they used to be, but research suggests that climate change could still make polar vortexes worse.
Virginia's Fairfax County Has Finally Decriminalized Keeping Hedgehogs as Pets
It's now legal to own one of the spiky creatures.
'Price Gouging' Is Supply and Demand at Work, Even in a Polar Vortex
Price signals ultimately mean more supplies for disaster-struck areas.
Florida Bans Greyhound Racing After State Law Kept It Going for Years
It would have been better to let the sport fail on its own.
Water From the Air and Power From Trash
Technology extracts at least 2,000 liters of water per day from the atmosphere at a cost of less than 2 cents per liter.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Climate Change 'Our World War II'
"The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?"
Pennsylvania Man Tries to Save a Deer's Life, Could Get Fined Instead
No good deed goes unpunished.
Is Climate Change Making Hurricanes More Destructive?
Not yet in the United States, new studies suggest
Green New Deal Will Try Anything Except Nukes, Hydro, Markets…
Using climate change as an excuse to pursue other social and economic goals.
'Extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least but think they know the most'
Title of the Nature Human Behavior article cited above sadly says it all.
The World Is Getting Better, Declare Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers
Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.
Developer Sues Labor Groups Over Use of California Environmental Laws To Stop Construction
Two unions called out for threats to sue if they don't get hired to build.
Did Donald Trump Jr. Just Compare Immigrants to Zoo Animals?
Note: Undocumented immigrants are not wild animals.
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.
Despite Climate Change, There Will Be Enough Food for 10 Billion in 2050
Food security is not the problem, but nutrition security could be.
Bill to End Federally Funded Kitten Murder Runs Into Opposition From Cat-Killing Bureaucrats
A new bill would end the USDA's practice of euthanizing kittens after feeding them parasite-infected meat.
'Monkey Business': Chris Brown Might Go to Jail Over His Adorable Pet
The punishment would certainly not fit the crime.
Report: 38 Percent of FEMA Employees Aren't 'Qualified' for Their Jobs
At the height of the agency's deployments in the summer of 2017, 54 percent of staff were serving in a capacity for which they were not fully qualified.
Trouble in Paradise
Naomi Klein misses the meaning of "the miracles Puerto Ricans have been quietly pulling off while their government fails them."
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.
The New Farm Bill Would Send Even More Welfare to the Super Rich (and Their Extended Families)
It would also legalize hemp, which is pretty cool.
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.
Texas Court Rules Deliberate Flooding of Private Property by State Government in Wake of Hurricane Harvey can be a Taking
The ruling concerns flooding of property undertaken by the San Jacinto River Authority in order to mitigate the effects of Hurricane Harvey. Issues raised in the case are similar to those at stake in ongoing federal court litigation.
Resources Are Almost 5 Times as Abundant as They Were in 1980
New Simon Abundance Index elegantly refutes primitive zero-sum intuitions with respect to population and resource availability trends.
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.
Trump's Trade War Bailout Program Is a Predictable Mess
More than 1,100 people living in America's 50 largest cities have received bailout funds intended for farmers harmed by Trump's trade war.
The Government Says Falconers Have to Give up Their Privacy and Free Speech Rights in Order to Own Birds. Now the Falconers Are Suing.
"I'm treated no differently from a common felon on parole."
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.
