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Fossil Fuels
Memphis Gave IKEA $9.5 Million While Several Smaller Furniture Stores Went Under
Corporate welfare hurts the people who actually need help.
To Stop Climate Change Americans Must Cut Energy Use by 90 Percent, Live in 640 Square Feet, and Fly Only Once Every 3 Years, Says Study
Researchers admit there are absolutely no current examples of low-energy societies providing a decent living standard for their citizens.
Biden Will Promise To Cut U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 50 Percent by 2030
The plan would require a substantial retirement of machines that run on fossil fuels.
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.
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
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
The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled
"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."
'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.
The World Needs Innovators, Not Lectures From Teens, to Solve Climate Change
Finger-wagging won't overcome the collective action problems preventing action.
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.
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.
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.
More Wind and Solar Power Perversely Locks In Fossil Fuel Generation
Skip renewables for zero-carbon electricity and go directly to nuclear
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.
Fossil Fuel Divestment Is Not Going to Go the Way Bill McKibben Thinks
But doesn't mean ruling out disruptive new energy technologies.
In Australia, as Renewables Surge the Price of Electricity Doubles
Activist happy talk that transitioning to renewables will be cheap is entirely specious.
Forced Coal Divestment Robs California Pension Fund of Revenue
Millions lost when political influence overrules financial acumen.
Scott Pruitt Emails Reveal He Consulted with Industry About Regulations
Another tiresome example of selective political outrage ensues.
Despite Trump, Is the Clean Energy Future Inevitable?
The momentum away from fossil fuels and toward renewables is 'undeniable and irresistible' assert activists.
Environmental Protection Agency
Trump EPA Nominee: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt
Lots of teeth-gnashing and garment-rending by progressives soon to follow
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.
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."
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.
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.
The New Nuclear Energy Revolution
Throwing off excessive regulatory precaution will bend the nuclear cost curve down, argues new study
Advanced Reactor Nuclear Power Resurgence in the U.S.
Privately funded, carbon-free, walk-away-safe, burns nuclear waste - what's not to like?
Paris Climate Change Conference
Environmentalists Need to Get Real: The Nuclear Power Solution to Climate Change
Opposing nuclear power is not climate friendly
Carbon Bubble: Activists' Wishful Thinking?
Does the stock market know something that environmental activists don't?
Upcoming Paris U.N. Climate Change Conference Is a "Charade"
According to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz
Ronald Bailey Reviews The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Does energy equity trump climate moralizing?
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.
A Parade of Progressive Causes at the People's Climate March
No Nukes, No Fracking, No GMOs, and Certainly No Capitalism
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
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.
Conservatives Against Consumption
Are fossil fuels responsible for moral and social decay?