Energy & Environment
How Free Markets and Human Ingenuity Can Save the Planet
A review of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas.
Electric Car Company Sues Media Outlet over Bad Press
Blames it for struggles with investors
California's Latest Environmental Boondoggle
The facts about Jerry Brown's misguided plan to "save" the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Judge Won't Block Calif. Wind Farm over Bird Deaths
Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs. Sometimes a few necks.
Effort to Decommission Fukushima Power Plant Faces Hurdles
Plant has been crippled since the 2011 earthquake/tsunami
Imprisoned Environmental Activist Forbidden From Publishing Without Permission From Government
Daniel MacGowan, charged with terrorism and now in a halfway home, has written about being placed in experimental solitary confinement
Researchers: Climate Change May Cause Air Turbulence
What can't it be blamed for?
Ahmadinejad Orders Officials to Launch Five More Nuclear Reactors
Says Iran has "gone nuclear"
Man Shoots Bear in Self-Defense, Faces Charges
Won't you think of the poor, bloodthirsty predators?
What's Worse than Horse Slaughter?
When it comes to government action, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
USDA Restores Dairy Reports Cut by Sequestration
Other agriculture industries don't get same treatment
Environmentalist Allegedly Rejailed for Writing about Prison Conditions
Had pleaded guilty to arson linked to Earth Liberation Front and was finishing out sentence
Starving Sea Lions Continue Washing up on Calif. Shores
More than 1,000 taken in so far
Another Tax-Subsidized Solar Company Files for Bankruptcy
It's almost as if only non-viable firms need subsidies
Shuttered Solar Plant Faces Fight Over Severance Pay
Former employees want to force closed facility into bankruptcy
On the Environment, the Alarmists Are Still Losing
Americans may be "evolving" on many fronts, but the issue of energy is less open to emotional appeals.
Climate Scientists Can't Explain Pause in Rising Temperatures
Globe hasn't quite warmed in twenty years
Fear of EPA Regulations Depresses Refinery Stocks
Red tape strangle an industry? You don't say
You Can Love Nature and Still Hate the Tyranny of Environmental Regulations
Throughout the world, most reductions in pollution have been achieved because of capitalism, not government control.
Arkansas Probing Oil Spill
ExxonMobil pipeline released thousands of gallons, forcing the evacuation of 22 homes
Florida DJs Suspended over April Fool's Joke
Warned audience of "dihydrogen monoxide" in the water supply
Poll: Majority Support Keystone Pipeline
Pew poll also shows increased belief in global warming
Scientists: Climate Change Creating More Sea Ice in Antarctica
Warming can create more sea ice scientists propose
Both Left and Right Are Afraid of Change
Social experiments don't sit well on either side of the aisle.
Study Finds Pesticides Can Cause Brain Damage in Bees
According to the European Food Safety Authority
Train Derailment Spills 30,000 Gallons of Oil in Minnesota
Incident will likely be used in Keystone XL fight
Obama's 'China Model' for Clean Energy Sputters
It turns out that stupid business models are stupid everywhere