Energy & Environment
Why China Is Cooperating on Climate Change
With China, we have a worrisome rival and an indispensable partner.
Stillborn Utopia
Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.
The U.S.-China Climate Change Deal Is Terrible. Fortunately, It Doesn't Matter
Guess what? America is not really doing anything we weren't going to do anyway, and neither is China.
Can We Save Nature by Making It Economically Useless?
"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.
Naomi Klein Changes Nothing
The laws of nature do not mandate a progressive paradise.
Federal Agencies Outline Plans on Climate Change
Step one: Ask for lots and lots of money.
Is Capitalism Environmentally Unsustainable?
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
The City of South Miami Wants to Split Florida in Two
Climate-change fears don't always lead to calls for centralization.
Government Agencies Use Their Power to Bolster Their Own Budgets
A northern California legal case involving state and federal efforts to secure a massive financial settlement from the state's largest land owner is rife with allegations of fraud, corruption, and official misconduct
Lockheed Martin Makes Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
Reactors may soon be small enough to fit on the back of a truck
SCOTUS Declines Challenge to California Foie Gras Ban
Opponents argued the law violated the Commerce Clause
Farmers' Markets and Organic Farms: More Special Interests Get Millions in Government Handouts
From farm grants to "green" technology subsidies, politicians hand out goodies while taxpayers get stuck with the tab.
