Energy & Environment
Scott Pruitt Refuted on 'Leveling Off' of Global Temperature Trends?
It depends on what the meaning of the word "hiatus" is.
Plow Field, Pay Government $35 Million?
It's happening in California, where the case goes to penalty trial in August, if the Trump administration doesn't stop it before then.
The New York Times' Hostility to Industry Gets Worse
The paper of record has it in for Pebble Mine, and for industry in general.
The Left Is Rebranding Environmental Regulations As Environmental Protections
Cloaking government control in the language of benevolence.
Left Rebrands Environmental Regulations As Environmental Protections: New at Reason
And the news media are going along with it.
Earth's Forest Area 9 Percent Greater Than Thought
Satellite survey finds hidden forests all over the world.
Taxpayer Weaned SolarWorld Comes to an End
U.S. taxpayers lavished over $100 million in government aid on the now insolvent SolarWorld.
Congressional Deregulation Effort Stalls at Methane Rule Repeal
States and industry will seek to roll back BLM's "vast overreach" of regulatory authority in court.
EPA Bureaucracy Strikes Back: The Case of the Board of Scientific Counselors
How will the struggle between the permanent bureaucracy and the EPA's new leadership play out?
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Should President Trump Keep His Promise to Cancel the Paris Agreement on Climate Change?
Instead, submit the Paris agreement as a treaty to Senate for a vote
Climate Computer Models Right After All: What Global Warming Hiatus?
Does new study reconcile controversies about the 'global warming hiatus'?
Climate Change, Scientism, and the Politics of Certitude
New York Times columnist notes the uncertainties in climate science; progressives want him fired.
Peoples Climate Movement March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate
Social justice activists hijack the problem of man-made climate change.
Peoples Climate March This Saturday: New at Reason
Progressives claim that climate change entails killing off capitalism
Tennessee Reins In Horse Massage Licensing Laws
Bill approved without a single "neigh," but lawmakers call "woah" on full repeal and plan to trot out new rules next year.
Anti-GMO Bills Fail in Oregon
This failure in such a blue state shows the limits of the anti-GMO movement.
Scientists' March on Washington
Do researchers risk becoming just another leftwing interest group?
Earth Day Dopes
Alarmists claim they're for "science," but what they're really for is a left-wing religion.
Warmer Temperatures: More Climate Satisfaction in U.S.
At least for the next several decades.
For U.S. 'Dangerous' Climate Change Is Like Moving 180 Miles South: New at Reason
New study finds Americans would prefer warmer weather on balance
Corporate Farming Laws a Bad Deal for Farmers
A farmer in Kansas who wants to sell his property challenges the state's law.
Trump Administration Is Right: Open the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository
Some 70,000 metric tons to nuclear waste is still sitting at nuclear power plants
Donald Trump's Climate Change Executive Order Will Make Energy Cheaper
But it will not bring back a lot of coal mining jobs.
Oil Sands Pipeline from Canada Is in U.S. National Interest
State Department reverses Obama ruling and permits construction of Keystone Pipeline.
Relax: Gutting the EPA Won't Make Your Air Dirtier and Water More Polluted
There have been diminishing returns to federal pollution regulation for a long time
Good News! A Court Has Ruled This Skim Milk Can Be Called Skim Milk!
A decision so plainly obvious must have roots in intrusive government regulations.
The Coming German Energy Crisis
An overcommitment to renewables has already had negative consequences.
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall 3 Percent
Global emissions flat for 3rd year in a row despite strong economic growth
Trump Administration to Review Obama-Era CAFE Standards
'We're going to work on the CAFE standards so you can make cars in America again'
Another Taxpayer-Funded Cleantech Company Goes Bankrupt
Aquion Energy files for Chapter 11. Will Tesla's Gigafactory be next?
Scott Pruitt Climate Change Freakout: Stay Calm and Carry On
At Senate: "I do not believe that climate change is a hoax."
Natural Gas Drives Energy Costs to Record Lows
The U.S. has successfully decoupled economic growth and energy demand.
New Study Blames Instagram for Food Waste. Seriously.
New studies blame Instagram and gluttony as causes of food waste.
The Social Cost of Carbon Calculation Debate*
Fatally flawed metric or the most important number that you've never heard of?
The Social Cost of Carbon and Congress: New at Reason
Underpins 80 federal regulations purportedly worth one trillion dollars
Warmest February in Contiguous U.S. in 39-Year Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 Celsius per decade
Environmental Protection Agency
Trump, Navigable Waters, and the EPA's WOTUS Regulations
Rolling back a "federal land grab" or instituting an "unmitigated disaster for fish and wildlife, hunting and fishing, and clean water"?
Scott Pruitt Emails Reveal He Consulted with Industry About Regulations
Another tiresome example of selective political outrage ensues.
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.