Climate Change
Is Reason's Video on Climate Change Alarmism a 'Masterclass in Manipulation'?
A response to the popular science communicator Hank Green
Leaked Supreme Court Memos Reveal Why Court Stayed Clean Power Plan (Setting Important "Shadow Docket" Precedent in the Process)
A New York Times scoop reveals that Chief Justice Roberts was concerned that the EPA would (again) get away with imposing unlawful burdens on utilities.
California Progressives Want 'Big Oil' To Fix an Insurance Crisis Created by the State's Price Controls
Instead of confronting the problems with the state's heavily regulated insurance market, lawmakers are looking for a scapegoat.
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Kids Climate Case Against Discounting in Cost-Benefit Analysis
The kids climate cases continue to have standing problems in federal court.
Project Hail Mary Is Another 'You Can Just Do Things' Story From Sci-Fi Novelist Andy Weir
A dazzling, ridiculously charming sci-fi adventure from the author of The Martian
Your Steak Isn't Killing the Planet
Some climate activists want a meat-free future. The science says otherwise.
Previewing Suncor Energy v. Boulder County
A Federalist Society forum on the first big case of OT 2026.
Climate Change Goes Back to the Supreme Court -- Colorado Edition
The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County
A Conversation about the Endangerment Finding Rescission
A couple of lawyers and a couple of scribes discuss the legal challenges to come.
Is This the End of Endangerment?
The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly prepared to rescind the "endangerment finding" that underpins the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
The Trump Administration Plans To Repeal EPA Finding That Greenhouse Gas Emissions 'Threaten' Public Health
The EPA under the Obama and Biden administrations invoked that finding to adopt strict and costly regulations aiming to reduce emissions.
These Climate Change Charts Are Scary. They're Also Wrong.
The job of scientists isn't to manufacture alarm. It's to communicate the truth.
Court Dismisses Trump Administration Effort to Block Michigan Climate Lawsuit
The Department of Justice failed to demonstrate that the court had jurisdiction to hear the (premature) claims.
This California Family Is Suing for the Right To Drill for Oil on Their Own Property
“We’re standing up not just for ourselves, but for the principle that government must respect property rights.”
Bill Gates Isn't the Only One Shifting From Climate Doomerism to Energy Abundance
Is this "the end of the climate hawk era"?
Why Science Lost Its Way
Author Matt Ridley examines how science became centralized and dogmatic, why public trust collapsed during COVID, and how open dissent is essential to restoring credibility.
A Second Round with William Barr on Litigation Over Interstate Pollution
Whatever the merits of climate tort suits (or lack thereof), the argument they are preempted does not hold up.
The U.N. Has Now Held 30 Climate Change Conferences That Have Accomplished Almost Nothing
COP30 in Brazil just ended and was more of the same.
The U.N. Has Been Holding Climate Conferences for 30 Years. Carbon Emissions Continue To Climb.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperatures are on the rise after 33 years of largely fruitless negotiations.
Placing Climate Tort Litigation in Context (Updated)
Using tort law for environmental protection has a deeper historical pedigree than does resort to administrative regulation.
Trump's Attorney Concedes: His Legal Theory Would Let a President Tax Foreign Cars To Combat Climate Change
Justice Neil Gorsuch got Solicitor General D. John Sauer to admit one "likely" outcome, if the Supreme Court upholds Trump's tariffs.
William Barr Discovers the Economics of Tort Law (and Misrepresents the Law Governing Interstate Pollution)
Another reply to the former attorney general on climate litigation that may end up in the Supreme Court.
Bill Gates Admits That Climate Change 'Will Not Be the End of Civilization'
The Microsoft co-founder recently penned a letter arguing that increasing global prosperity is the best way forward on the issue.
District Court Dismisses Another Kids Climate Suit, As Existing Law Requires (Updated)
A suit asking a district court judge to undo every Trump Administration energy policy initiative is dismissed with prejudice; appeal to follow.
Donald Trump Is the Coal President
Just as Biden’s preference for renewables distorted markets and harmed consumers, so too does Trump’s bias toward coal.
Environmental Groups Are Suing To Silence Scientists Who Wrote a Report Questioning Climate Change Alarmism
The groups are using the lawsuit to halt the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda.
Why Trying to Undo the Endangerment Finding Is A High-Risk (and Low-Reward) Deregulatory Strategy
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says the Endangerment Finding is the "holy grail" of climate policy. Perhaps it's really they great white whale.
The EPA Can Terminate Climate Change Grants to Nonprofits
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacates a district court injunction barring clawback of climate grants.
Colorado Wants To Make Its Garbage Cleaner. A New Regulation Might Just Make It Pricier and Dirtier.
One rural county expects the regulation to cost its landfill almost $4 million up front, and an additional $1 million annually.
The Department of Energy Just Admitted Climate Change May Not Be Catastrophic
A report affirms that greenhouse gases are warming the planet, but it also found no convincing evidence that U.S. hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts have become more frequent or intense in recent decades.
San Francisco's All-Electric Ordinance Will Make Housing More Expensive
San Francisco’s new ordinance would impose all-electric building standards for new construction projects or buildings undergoing “major renovations.”
Science Needs Dissent: NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on COVID, Autism, and Climate Change
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends open disagreement, criticizes groupthink, and argues that democracy depends on our ability to speak and listen across political and scientific divides.
Curtailing Federal Control Over Emissions Should Be Done by Congress, Not the EPA
By going through the courts, the Trump administration risks perpetuating the regulatory ping-pong that has plagued Washington, D.C., for decades.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Dead Wrong About Outlawing Climate Geoengineering
An unholy alliance between MAGA and progressives to ban research on an emergency backup plan to cool the planet may be emerging.
NYT: EPA Embarking on Endangerment Finding Fool's Errand
A new report suggests the Trump EPA is not content with cutting off stationary source regulation of greenhouse gases.
There's No Evidence That Climate Change Has Increased the Rat Population
A widely reported study relies on weak data, inaccurate statistics, and misleading references to support its claims.
The 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Keeps Most of Joe Biden's Energy Subsidies
While the bill may terminate subsidies for electric vehicles and energy efficiency, it falls short of fully eliminating government intervention in the energy sector.
Lighthiser v. Trump: Another Kids Climate Suit
This one claims that the Trump Administration's deregulatory efforts violate the Fifth Amendment.
New Mexico Appeals Court Dismisses Suit Seeking to Compel Greater Environmental Regulation under State Constitution
The appeals court concludes the lawsuit failed to present a claim upon which relief can be granted under state law.
Supreme Court Unanimously Agrees To Curb Environmental Red Tape That Slows Down Construction Projects
The case involved a fully permitted railroad track in Utah that has yet to break ground because of environmental lawsuits.
The Trump EPA's Plan to End Greenhouse Gas Emission Regulation from Stationary Sources
Instead of making a headlong rush at the endangerment finding, the Administration is adopting a more targeted deregulatory strategy.
Congress Is Giving Energy Lobbyists a 3-Year Window to Keep Up to $2 Trillion in Subsidies
The "one big, beautiful bill" keeps the corporate welfare that Republicans claim to hate.
Can the EPA Finesse the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding?
The agency may be able to adopt a bank-shot strategy to preclude most (but not all) greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act without contesting basic climate science.
Gavin Newsom Wants To Make the Country's Most Expensive Gas Even More Expensive
All to shovel more money at wasteful and ineffective programs.
Can the EPA Rescind the Endangerment Finding? Should It Even Try?
A recent Federalist Society webinar on one of the Trump EPA"s top agenda items.
17 States Sue Trump Administration for Its Anti-Wind Energy Policy
The lawsuit challenges a Day 1 executive order signed by the president to halt federal leasing for offshore wind energy projects.
