Libertarian Gary Johnson Comes Out Against Carbon Taxes, Mandatory Vaccines
Libertarian Party candidate clarifies positions at New Hampshire rally.
Energy & Environment
Have More Kids. It's Good For the Planet
Things have never been better, despite doomsday prophecies from some environmentalists.
Climate Change Will Impoverish Millennials, Says Study
Only if you think merely tripling per capita GDP by 2100 is poverty
Gary Johnson on Climate Change and a Carbon Tax
Is a carbon tax a 'very libertarian proposal' for handling man-made global warming?
EPA Says It Needs Eight More Years to Decide if Ethanol Mandate Is Bad for the Environment
It is, as everyone who isn't a corn farmer will tell you.
The Unintended Climate Consequences of Biofuels Mandates: New at Reason
The U.S. renewable fuels standard backfires
Mandated Biofuels = More Greenhouse Gases
Politicians adopt a policy that does the opposite of what they supposedly intended to do.
Solar and Wind Power Won't Work Without Natural Gas as a Back-Up, Says New Study
To be against fracking is to be against renewable energy.
Dumped Cherries a Reminder of Awfulness of USDA Marketing Orders
Hurting farmers and consumers. Squeezing out competitors. Forcing production abroad. Causing food waste. What's not to love?
The Nuclear War Over Climate Change
If global warming is a problem, it is idiotic for environmentalists to oppose nuclear power.
Nuclear Warfare Between the Greens: New at Reason
The fight over treating nuclear power on a similar footing with other low-carbon energy sources
California Push for Coal Divestment Mostly About Politics
Insurance commish wants companies to "voluntarily" divest from coal
Is Global Warming a Sign of the End Times?
A new Yale poll finds 14 percent of Americans think so
Can You Have Your Subsidized Peanut Butter Cake and Eat It, Too?
Overproduce peanuts and depress peanut prices; don't pay your loans; and collect taxpayers' money.
Democratic Platform 2016: Science Planks Good, Bad and Missing
Are the Democrats really the Party of Science?
Massachusetts Voters Could Have Egg on Their Faces
Ballot measure will decide in November whether to impose unwise, harmful, costly, and unconstitutional standards for raising a host of livestock animals.
Good News: Global Energy Intensity Continues to Decline
Energy demand projected to increase by nearly 50 percent by 2040
The Left's Insidious War on the Free Speech Rights of Climate Dissenters
The main casualty of global warming is the Democratic Party's sanity.
Watch Barbara Boxer Falsely Accuse Reason of Trying to "undermine climate science"
Senator calls one of her own constituents a "puppet of the fossil fuel industry"
Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Party Hold Two-Day Festival Against Free Speech
Reason Foundation among the many groups targeted outrageously-and falsely-for global-warming thoughtcrime
Sacrificing To Combat Climate Change Should Begin with a Ban of A/C in DC
And why exactly is Leonardo DiCaprio guilting his Hollywood friends into traveling to St. Tropez to hear him denounce fossil fuels?
19 Democratic Senators Submit Climate Change "Web of Denial" Concurrent Resolution
The solons will be denouncing "climate change denial" from the floor of the Senate for the next two days.
Civil Rights, Shivil Rights: Dems Wanna Shut Down Free Speech Rights of Climate Dissenters
They've made it an official plank of the party platform
Starved by Socialist Policies, Venezuelans Urged to Take Up Urban Farming
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
It's Hard Out There for a Predator
The Hunt shows the difficult lives of the carnivores of the animal kingdom.
Free Speech and Climate Fraud Prosecution Follies
The First Amendment does not protect fraud, but it does protect public debate over climate change.
No Such Thing As a Perfect Route for a Gas Pipeline
If America wants to wean off coal, it needs natural gas, and the pipelines that carry it.
Climate Change Prediction Fail?
What did 'climate hero' James Hansen actually predict back in 1986?
What Did 'Climate Hero' James Hansen Actually Predict Back in 1986?: New at Reason
And has the temperature signal for man-made global warming finally emerged?
Wall Street Journal Publishes Ad Bashing Its Own Climate Change Editorial Position
Headline: Exxon's CEO says fossil fuels are raising temperatures and sea levels: Why won't the Wall Street Journal?
Global Warming Prediction 30 Years Later: How Is It Faring?
If you preach to choir, at least try to be fair in your sermon.
The Transparency Bullies
Climate change skeptics have rights to free speech and privacy, too.
May 2016 Was the Second Warmest May in the Satellite Record: Global Temperature Update
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.12 C per decade
Supreme Court Rules 8-0 for Landowners Fighting Clean Water Act Regulations
SCOTUS issues important property rights victory in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co, Inc.
California Looking for More Chances to Punish Businesses over Climate Change Positions
Some want to legally target those who donate to think tanks that encourage skepticism.
Food Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election
Farm subsides, GMO responses, and regulatory overreach should prompt some discussion.
Global Warming Scaled Back, Say Two New Studies
Climate models may be running 2 to 4 times too hot
Heavy Rainfall Is Easing California's Drought Crisis. A Free Market in Water Would Actually Solve the Problem.
Q&A with Reed Watson of the Property and Environment Research Center
Cabbage 'Spills,' Hog-Hunting, and Farm Aid Vetoes: Three Food Policy Stories from the States
A trio of interesting stories aren't making national headlines.
Is It Ethical to Grow Human Organs in Pigs?
Fomenting another useless moral panic over biotechnology
Is It Ethical to Grow Human Organs in Pigs? New at Reason
Scientists are trying to achieve just this goal, but some ethicists are opposed to the research
