Why Don't People Who Are Stuck in Depressed Appalachian Towns Just Leave?
A Reason writer returns to his family's home to investigate
Energy & Environment
Trump Cannot Stop 'Irrevocable' Transition to Clean Energy, Say Activists: New at Reason
Trump will not stop 'irrevocable' transition to clean energy, say activists
Despite Trump, Is the Clean Energy Future Inevitable?
The momentum away from fossil fuels and toward renewables is 'undeniable and irresistible' assert activists.
Environmental Protection Agency
Trump EPA Nominee: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt
Lots of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending by progressives soon to follow
The Successful Progressive Conspiracy to Burn a 'Climate Heretic'
Wikileaks reveals how activists orchestrated a campaign to silence climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr.
Army Corps of Engineers Halts Work on Dakota Access Pipeline
Standing Rock protesters succeed in blocking Bakken oil pipeline route
Can Egg Producers Recover from November's Great Fall?
Large farms have been stung by two recent setbacks. What's next?
Trump on Energy: 'The Best of Any President Since Reagan'? Q/A With Alex Epstein
The author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels on global warming, fracking, Ayn Rand, and the president-elect.
Nuclear Power Subsidies Adopted by Illinois State Government
Subsidies for Everybody! Nukes evidently need subsidies to compete with renewable subsidies.
China Burns More Coal: Climate Promises Broken or Just Deferred?
Predictions of Chinese peak coal consumption appear to have been premature
Guess Who Just Approved a Pipeline to Transport Canadian Oilsands Crude?
Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, that's who. Does this make Obama look like a chump for nixing Keystone XL?
California's New Cow Fart Regulations Totally Stink
New law aims to reduce bovine flatulance, but will the cows obey?
Record Temperatures and Record Grain Yields
Climate model projections of wheat yields are just stupid
Climate Policy Actually Slowed Decarbonization Trends
Paris climate agreement will reduce global warming by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100
Who Should Decide if 'Hydroponic' is 'Organic'?
A controversy highlights the need to get the USDA out of organic food altogether. (Even a major newspaper thinks so!)
Energy Poverty Is Much Worse for the Poor Than Climate Change
Forcing poor people to forego economic development in order to prevent climate change is 'morally dubious'
Ending Energy Poverty vs. Climate Change Mitigation: New at Reason
Ending energy poverty should be prioritized over efforts to prevent climate change
Brutal Police Actions, Tactics Reported from Dakota Pipeline Protest
Sophia Wilansky had her arm seriously damaged by what protesters say was police-tossed concussion grenade; police deny using any such weapon. Water has been sprayed on protesters in freezing temperature.
Trump Will 'Keep an Open Mind' About the Paris Climate Change Agreement
So says the president-elect in an interview this afternoon with the New York Times.
What Trump's Win Means for Food and Agricultural Policy
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
Is Climate Change Already Solved?
"The market is clearly headed towards clean energy, and that trend will only become more pronounced."
Keep It In The Ground: A Global Carbon Budget
"Globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused."
John Kerry's Climate Change Swan Song at Marrakech
"No one has the right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology."
Is the 'Momentum' for Action on Climate Change Unstoppable?
"Acknowledging the uncertainty we are all feeling with regard to the changes in the political situation in the United States."
Paris Agreement Climate Change
No More Coal for Rich Countries by 2030
Is such a scheme for eliminating coal in just 13 years as a source of electric power generation in rich countries likely?
2016 Likely Hottest Year in Instrumental Record, Says WMO
"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016."
Game Over for the Climate?
First dispatch from COP22: Trump, Peak Carbon Dioxide, and Extreme Weather Events.
Washington State Carbon Tax Initiative Voted Down
Leading environmentalist groups hated its revenue neutrality
Trump and the Climate Activist Freakout
Whistling past the graveyard by climate activists at Morocco climate conference
2016 Could Edge Out 1998 as Hottest Year in Satellite Temperature Record
U.N. climate change meeting opens today in Marrakech, Morocco.
Election Focus on Food Policy Is Lacking
As the presidential race drags into the home stretch, food issues don't even rate as a blip on the polls.
Election 2016 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change: New at Reason
Is joining the new universal climate accord irreversible?
ExxonMobil Climate 'Fraud' Follies Update: Activist 'Conspirators' Don't Shred Your Documents
What did the Union of Concerned Scientists know and when did it know it?
The Panderer in Chief and the 'War on the American Farmer'
Farmers are such a protected class that it's hard to take the notion of a war against them seriously.
140+ Arrested, 300+ Officers Reportedly Involved in Crack Down on Dakota Pipeline Protest Camp
Protesters set up multiple roadblock; police from at least six states are in the county.
ExxonMobil Climate 'Fraud' Investigation Follies Continue
New court ruling requires oil company to hand over accounting records
Greens Against a Carbon Tax in Washington State
For some progressives it is more important to redistribute tax money than to save the climate.
New Nano-Catalyst Reverses Combustion to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Fuel
Would it be worth doing in the absence of a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade market?
(UPDATED) Democracy Now Host Amy Goodman Faces 'Riot' Charges For Covering North Dakota Pipeline Protests
Prosecutor argues against Goodman's First Amendment rights because she sympathized with protesters.
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Lowest Level Since 1991
And that was one year before the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated.
New Proposed Nevada Solar Power Plant Would Cost Six Times More Than the Hoover Dam
While supposedly delivering about the same amount of electricity.
Hurricane Matthew and the Politics of Climate Change
Everybody please just stop politicizing the weather
Actively Open-Minded Thinking vs. Science Curiosity on Climate Change: New at Reason
Liberal and conservative "science curious" people are less polarized over scientific issues
Actively Open-Minded Thinking About Climate Change
It's not really all that open-minded. Science curious people on the other hand ...
