Energy & Environment
Absurd State Licensing Rules Could Send a Woman To Jail Just for Touching a Horse
Of course. State board says she has to go to veterinary school to learn something she already knows and the schools don't teach.
Protester Trash and Debris Threaten Water Contamination at Dakota Access Pipeline
Clean-up efforts are in a race to beat the coming floods.
Why Trump Should Reject Calls for a Carbon Tax
If we accept the models, entirely eliminating all U.S. carbon emissions would have less than a negligible impact on temperatures by the end of the century.
Lawmakers and Regulators Act Like They Hate Farmers Markets
Existential threats from meddlesome rulemakers
Lack of Competition Is Leading to a Costly Electricity Glut in California
Government monopolies drive prices up.
Carbon Dividends: Solve Man-Made Climate Change While Shrinking Government?
Carbon tax and dividend plan would eliminate all EPA carbon regulations, all clean energy subsidies, and all energy efficiency standards.
NOAA Climate Change Data Manipulation Charge: Scandal or Nothing to See Here?
Settled science and confirmation bias all the way down
Dakota Access Pipeline Easement Will Be Granted By Army
Regulation by presidential whim versus the rule of law
Climate Scientists Manipulated Temperature Data to Fool Politicians and Public, Claims 'Whistleblower'
Another update on the 'settled science' of climate change
January Average Global Temperature Ticked Up from December: Global Temperature Trend Update
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade
Trump, Obama, and the Approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline
A sad example of how arbitrary politically motivated bureaucratic decisions are replacing the rule of law
Hemp and Pot Restrictions Not Dying Fast Enough
The push for legalization-particularly farming-is being hampered by in a number of ways.
Energy Efficiency Mandates Are Worse for Poor Americans Than Energy Taxes
Energy taxes are obvious to voters, while the effects of energy efficiency standards are sneakier
Which Is Worse for Poor Americans: Energy Efficiency Mandates or Energy Taxes?: New at Reason
Politicians prefer efficiency mandates because they are less obvious to voters than taxes.
Scientifically Absurd Proposed FDA Regulations on Genetically Improved Livestock Should Be Withdrawn Immediately
"If DNA is a drug, then all life on Earth is high."
Environmental Protection Agency
Trump Orders EPA to Take Down Its Climate Change Page, Says Reuters
Sending a strong signal to the permanent bureaucracy that there's a new sheriff in town?
Rachel Carson: New Documentary on PBS Tonight
We are all still living in the intellectual and public policy world that Rachel Carson constructed.
Love Canal Down the Memory Hole
A review of Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Changes in Commodities Prices Since 1960 Show a Richer World
The World Bank recently updated the "Pink Sheet."
Is President Trump a 'Climate Menace'?
None of his cabinet picks seem to think that man-made climate change is hoax.
Trump Cabinet Picks Acknowledge Man-Made Climate Change: New at Reason
They seek climate policies that won't 'compromise economic growth, the affordability of energy, or American jobs'
Senator Pushes a Ridiculous "Milk" Law That Treats Consumers Like Idiots
The "Dairy Pride Act" calls for the FDA to crack down on cow-dairy alternatives that use terms like "milk" or "yogurt."
Trump EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt Grilled on Climate Change at Senate Hearing
'I do not believe that climate change is a hoax.'
2016 Hottest Year Since Good Record Keeping Began in 1880, Says NOAA and NASA
16 of the 17 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001
Worst of Times
The New York Times' political and economic coverage is filled with deceit.
Climate Intervention Finally Discussed in Latest National Global Change Research Plan Update
Way past time to experiment with geoengineering as an emergency backup plan to cool the planet
Obama: Clean Energy Future Is Irreversible and Will Outlast Trump
Still, it is always good to have some idea of what tradeoffs proposed policies would impose.
No Global Warming Hiatus After All Redux?
Sometimes climate science just doesn't seem all that "settled."
Georgia Tech Climatologist Judith Curry Resigns over 'the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science.'
She is a prominent critic of the "consensus" that man-made climate change is an impending catastrophe
2016 Warmest Year in Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
Edges out 1998: Likely to be confirmed by thermometer data later this month.
Food Policy Experts Comment on Bests, Worsts, and What's to Come
The year that was and the year that will be.
Desalination Foes Privileging Tiny Critters Over People
California environmental regulations go too far.
Anthony Bourdain on Sichuan Peppers, Sex, Eating Dogs, and Political Correctness
An exclusive post-election interview with the culinary celebrity host of Parts Unknown.
An Epidemic of Bad Epidemiology
Getting Risk Right is a potent antidote to the toxic misinformation peddled by activist scaremongers
Climate Scientist Michael Mann's Defamation Lawsuit Against Critics Can Proceed, Rules Court
'Trump hasn't even taken office and it's already becoming easier to sue people for defamation.'
Lithium Mining, Formulaic Reporting, and The Washington Post
Missing the fact that governments, not mining companies, are the real villains
OPEC Production Cutbacks, Oil Prices and Fracking
The petro-autocracies attempt to get more cash to buy off their restive populations will fail
EPA's New Fracking Report and Regulatory Science
The new report appears to be a parting gift to anti-fracking activists from the Obama administration.
Bouncy Houses and American Idol: How Local Governments in Pennsylvania Blew Drilling Tax Revenue
The money is supposed to offset environmental consequences of natural gas drilling, but some localities used it as a slush fund for pet projects and parties.
Tomato Growers Lose Millions Thanks to False FDA Warning, Courts' Failure to Act
What happens when a food's link to salmonella is proven false? Nothing.
Why Don't People Who Are Stuck in Depressed Appalachian Towns Just Leave?
A Reason writer returns to his family's home to investigate
