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Infrastructure

Biden's $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Is Teeming With Cronyism

Democrats never miss an opportunity to rail against big corporations. Yet they're eagerly subsidizing their big corporate friends.

Veronique de Rugy | 4.8.2021 2:06 AM

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Climate Change

Completely Replace Fossil Fuels Within 20 Years? A Soho Forum Debate

Jeff Nesbit and Bjorn Lomborg on the threat of climate change and what should be done about it

Nick Gillespie | 11.2.2020 5:33 PM

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Climate Change

Should We Abolish Fossil Fuels to Stop Global Warming? A Soho Forum Debate

Jeff Nesbit vs. Bjorn Lomborg on the threat of climate change and what should be done about it

Nick Gillespie | 10.27.2020 12:00 PM

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Environmentalism

Give Thanks to Fossil Fuels

Was the power on in your house this morning?

John Stossel | 8.5.2020 12:30 AM

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Environmentalism

The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled

"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."

Ronald Bailey | 8.1.2020 1:30 PM

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Climate Change

'Climate Change Is Real, But It's Not the End of the World': Michael Shellenberger

In his new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Shellenberger argues that science doesn't support doomsayers' claims.

Nick Gillespie | 7.9.2020 12:15 PM

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IPCC

The World Needs Innovators, Not Lectures From Teens, to Solve Climate Change

Finger-wagging won't overcome the collective action problems preventing action.

Shikha Dalmia | 9.30.2019 10:25 AM

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Green New Deal

Green New Deal Senate Vote

Political stunt or destructive socialist daydream?

Ronald Bailey | 3.27.2019 11:45 AM

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IPCC

How Big of a Deal Is an Extra Half Degree of Global Warming?

New report declares world must be off fossil fuels entirely by 2050.

Ronald Bailey | 10.11.2018 10:05 AM

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Climate Change

Germany Flops on Climate Change Goals

Germany won't be able to meet the goal of cutting emissions by 20 percent before 2020. But the attempt caused residential energy prices to double.

Nikhil Sridhar | 6.18.2018 4:40 PM

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Gas Taxes

Why Aren't Liberals Celebrating Higher Gas Prices? It's What They Want

Democrats have spent the past two decades advocating for policies that artificially spike fossil fuel prices.

David Harsanyi | 6.1.2018 12:01 AM

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Renewable energy

More Wind and Solar Power Perversely Locks In Fossil Fuel Generation

Skip renewables for zero-carbon electricity and go directly to nuclear

Ronald Bailey | 5.17.2018 11:35 AM

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Renewable energy

Climate Activist Bill McKibben's 3-Step Plan to Eliminate Fossil Fuels

If renewables are as cheap as he thinks, then Steps 2 and 3 are superfluous.

Ronald Bailey | 2.8.2018 3:00 PM

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Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuel Divestment Is Not Going to Go the Way Bill McKibben Thinks

But doesn't mean ruling out disruptive new energy technologies.

Ronald Bailey | 12.19.2017 12:15 PM

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Renewable energy

In Australia, as Renewables Surge the Price of Electricity Doubles

Activist happy talk that transitioning to renewables will be cheap is entirely specious.

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2017 11:45 AM

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Pension Crisis

Forced Coal Divestment Robs California Pension Fund of Revenue

Millions lost when political influence overrules financial acumen.

Scott Shackford | 8.8.2017 1:20 PM

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Scott Pruitt

Scott Pruitt Emails Reveal He Consulted with Industry About Regulations

Another tiresome example of selective political outrage ensues.

Ronald Bailey | 2.22.2017 5:15 PM

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Clean Energy

Despite Trump, Is the Clean Energy Future Inevitable?

The momentum away from fossil fuels and toward renewables is 'undeniable and irresistible' assert activists.

Ronald Bailey | 12.9.2016 1:30 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

Trump EPA Nominee: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt

Lots of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending by progressives soon to follow

Ronald Bailey | 12.7.2016 4:40 PM

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Donald Trump

Trump Will 'Keep an Open Mind' About the Paris Climate Change Agreement

So says the president-elect in an interview this afternoon with the New York Times.

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2016 3:45 PM

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Temperature Trends

2016 Likely Hottest Year in Instrumental Record, Says WMO

"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016."

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2016 11:01 AM

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ExxonMobil

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.

Ronald Bailey | 7.11.2016 3:35 PM

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California

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.

Scott Shackford | 5.31.2016 12:15 PM

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Nuclear Power

The New Nuclear Energy Revolution

Throwing off excessive regulatory precaution will bend the nuclear cost curve down, argues new study

Ronald Bailey | 2.5.2016 1:30 PM

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Nuclear Power

Advanced Reactor Nuclear Power Resurgence in the U.S.

Privately funded, carbon-free, walk-away-safe, burns nuclear waste - what's not to like?

Ronald Bailey | 1.29.2016 1:30 PM

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Paris Climate Change Conference

Environmentalists Need to Get Real: The Nuclear Power Solution to Climate Change

Opposing nuclear power is not climate friendly

Ronald Bailey | 12.1.2015 11:05 AM

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Fossil Fuels

Carbon Bubble: Activists' Wishful Thinking?

Does the stock market know something that environmental activists don't?

Ronald Bailey | 11.13.2015 1:30 PM

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Greenhouse gases

Upcoming Paris U.N. Climate Change Conference Is a "Charade"

According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2015 12:46 PM

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Fossil Fuels

Ronald Bailey Reviews The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Does energy equity trump climate moralizing?

Reason Staff | 1.16.2015 1:30 PM

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Fossil Fuels

Fight Poverty—Use Fossil Fuels

Review of "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels"

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2015 12:01 AM

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Climate Change

Climate Change Versus Climate Catastrophe

Instead of talking about "climate change"-which will happen with or without human influence-we should focus on "climate catastrophe," weather that actually kills people.

John Stossel | 12.10.2014 12:00 PM

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Fossil Fuels Must Be Phased Out by 2100, Says UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Synthesis Report

Ronald Bailey | 11.3.2014 10:05 AM

United Nations

A Parade of Progressive Causes at the People's Climate March

No Nukes, No Fracking, No GMOs, and Certainly No Capitalism

Ronald Bailey | 9.22.2014 9:30 AM

Fossil Fuels

Attention Climate Marchers! Watch Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet

Jim Epstein | 9.21.2014 9:30 AM

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Fossil Fuels

Pumped Up Prices

Fossil fuels, fooled?

Brian Doherty | 3.31.2014 7:00 AM

UNFCCC

Witnessing the "Last Coughs" of a Dying Coal Industry in Warsaw?

Reason's science correspondent sends a first dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.19.2013 9:00 AM

Peak oil

Peak Oil Peters Out: Neo-Malthusian Cult Website The Oil Drum Shuts Down

Ronald Bailey | 7.12.2013 4:46 PM

Fossil Fuels

Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet

Paul Feine and Alex Manning | 3.13.2013 12:00 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy: Science Above Politics or Warrior Against Affordable Energy?

Ronald Bailey | 3.5.2013 12:07 PM

Fossil Fuels

Gas Prices and Political Mythology

If there is any issue you can be sure will come up during a presidential election campaign, it's gasoline prices.

Steve Chapman | 9.6.2012 8:00 AM

Free Markets

Free Markets Save the Planet

Nick Sibilla | 1.27.2012 5:34 PM

Traditional Values

Conservatives Against Consumption

Are fossil fuels responsible for moral and social decay?

Ronald Bailey | 1.11.2012 1:30 PM

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