How California's Environmental Mandates Led to Blackouts
Critics say the state's dependence on solar and wind have made the power grid unreliable and overly expensive.
Clean Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves First Domestic Small Commercial Reactor
New nuclear reactors are important for clean power, but are hindered by intense regulatory schemes.
Good News for Birds (and Wind Power)
Something as simple as black paint may reduce avian mortalities from wind power.
Clean Free Market Policy Beats a Carbon Tax. Here's Why.
Clean technologies can compete (and win) if barriers to participation are removed.
The World Needs Innovators, Not Lectures From Teens, to Solve Climate Change
Finger-wagging won't overcome the collective action problems preventing action.
The Green New Deal Will Hit the Poor With Higher Energy Costs
"It's upside-down Robin Hood.”
Maryland's New 'Clean Energy' Bill Includes Millions in Subsidies for Pollution-Spewing Trash Incinerators and Paper Mills
The state treats burning trash as a renewable energy source worthy of taxpayer support.
Powering U.S. Using 100 Percent Renewable Energy Is a Total Fantasy
New research debunks a study claiming there's a low-cost way to power America using only wind, solar, and hydropower.
Obama: Clean Energy Future Is Irreversible and Will Outlast Trump
Still, it is always good to have some idea of what tradeoffs proposed policies would impose.
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.
Nuclear Power Subsidies Adopted by Illinois State Government
Subsidies for Everybody! Nukes evidently need subsidies to compete with renewable subsidies.
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'
Greens Against a Carbon Tax in Washington State
For some progressives it is more important to redistribute tax money than to save the climate.
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.
Bill Gates Expects an 'Energy Miracle' in Next 15 Years
"World will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world."
The 'Climate Justice' Fantasy
The rough road to adopting a universal climate treaty at Paris in December
A War on Climate Change?
We are supposed trust government technocrats - what could possibly go wrong?
Obama's Clean Power Plan Would Reduce Global Warming by -0.015 Degree By 2100
A lot of pain for what gain?
Upcoming Paris U.N. Climate Change Conference Is a "Charade"
According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz
How Gasification Beat Berkeley and Broke Big
From fighting with Berkeley city government to a $5 million green-tech company
Senate: If Wind Power Is Already Competitive Why Does It Need More Subsidies?
Smart unsubsidized private investments in renewable power resources might increase the energy independence of the United States
The Ethanol Disaster
America's renewables policy is bad for consumers, the environment, and the global poor.
GAO Audit Finds $500 Million Spent on 'Green Jobs' That Didn't Exist
Nearly half the people who received government-funded training were unable to find work
Federally Subsidized Maker of 'Clean' Vehicles Closes Doors
Another rousing success for industrial policy
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.
'Green' Policies Drive Rising U.K. Energy Costs
Now electricity is sustainably expensive!
Obama's 'China Model' for Clean Energy Sputters
It turns out that stupid business models are stupid everywhere
Obama Wants Congress to Establish Alternative Energy Research Fund
Wants $2 billion over the next 10 years for the Energy Security Trust
USDA Announces $25 Million in Biofuel Funding
This is why they want the debt ceiling raised?
Louisiana Coal Plant to Pay $14 Million in Pollution Suit
Largest Clean Air Act settlement in state's history
Green Energy Industry Waits on Fate of Tax Credit
It's not really do-able without subsidies
British Company Extracts Fuel from Air
Lots of electricity is required, but it seems promising
Electric Car Subsidies Draw Criticism in U.K.
Taxpayers are asked to indulge the already well-off
Anti-Solyndra Bill Leads to Congressional Bickering
Accusations that it's really about protecting coal and nuclear power, not blowing taxpayer money