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• How Green Are Your Nukes?
  Environmentalists Stewart Brand and Al Gore debate nuclear power in two new books.
  Ronald Bailey
  November 10, 2009
• SuperFreaking Out Over Climate Engineering
  Freakonomics authors freak out environmental activists by suggesting a technical fix for global warming
  Ronald Bailey
  November 3, 2009
• A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works
  Why Elinor Ostrom won
  John Stossel
  October 22, 2009
• The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal
  No Impact Man fails to make an impression
  Dan Hayes
  October 6, 2009
• Climate Change and the Nanny State
  Do we need the government to save us from ourselves?
  David Harsanyi
  September 23, 2009
• Doubling Down on Climate Change
  Activists want America to reduce emissions to 1960s levels. Is that even possible?
  Ronald Bailey
  September 22, 2009
• Is Government Action Worse than Global Warming?
  Why policy nihilism may be the only rational response to climate change
  Ronald Bailey
  September 9, 2009
• Warming Up for a Climate Change Fight
  Obama's getting ready for the U.N. global warming conference. So is Bjorn Lomborg.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 1, 2009
• California Parks Need User Fees
  Only 13 of the 279 parks and beaches are financially self-supporting
  Adam Summers
  September 1, 2009
• Cash for Clunkers Destroys Wealth and Resources
  Program isn't delivering on its eco-goals
  Shikha Dalmia
  August 12, 2009
• Cash for Climate
  How to get your money's worth on climate change geoengineering
  Ronald Bailey
  August 11, 2009
• Policymakers Turn to Privatization Amid Prolonged Government Fiscal Crises
  Privatization, public-private partnerships increasingly prominent in fiscal policy debates
  Leonard Gilroy
  August 6, 2009
• How Green Is Your Crystal Ball?
  The National Academy of Sciences tries to predict America's energy future. Again.
  Ronald Bailey
  August 4, 2009
• California's Economic Climate Change Denialism
  There's no free lunch when it comes to cutting greenhouse gases
  Ronald Bailey
  July 21, 2009
• Why Poor Countries Won't Curb Emissions
  Massive greenhouse gas reductions would require developing countries to abandon plans to ever conquer poverty
  Shikha Dalmia
  July 15, 2009
• Let's Do Something—Anything
  The trouble with the new "cap and trade" bill
  David Harsanyi
  July 1, 2009
• The Cost of Doing Something
  Declaiming the price of "inaction" is a perennial argument for big government and bad law
  Matt Welch
  July 1, 2009
• Congress Is Hiding Cap-and-Trade Energy Price Increases
  Central fact of the cap-and-trade proposal is that it will increase the price of energy
  Ronald Bailey
  June 10, 2009
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Without Reducing Mobility
  Focusing on cutting vehicle miles traveled is the wrong approach
  Robert Poole
  June 9, 2009
• Energy Price Deceit
  Congress tries to hide its cap-and-trade energy price increases
  Ronald Bailey
  June 2, 2009
• President Obama's Energy Plans Have a History of Failure
  Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter
  Ronald Bailey
  May 20, 2009
• Waxman's Cap-and-Trade Plan Functions Like a Tax Increase
  Proponents need to stop pretending cap-and-trade will cost nothing and create tons of jobs
  Ronald Bailey
  May 20, 2009
• Coming to Your Garage: Le Car
  The trouble with the government's new automobile emissions and efficiency standards
  David Harsanyi
  May 20, 2009
• Cap-and-Trade Delusions
  Proponents need to stop pretending cap-and-trade will cost nothing and create tons of jobs
  Ronald Bailey
  May 19, 2009
• Conservation Theater
  As green as an SUV tow truck
  Radley Balko
  April 29, 2009
• Save the Humans!
  Beware the government's latest climate change power grab
  David Harsanyi
  April 22, 2009
• Cap-and-Trade Handouts
  "The largest corporate welfare program ever enacted in the history of the United States"
  Ronald Bailey
  April 9, 2009
• Does Nature Have Economic Value?
  Ecological economists know the price of everything--and the value of nothing
  Ronald Bailey
  March 24, 2009
• Clouding Up Man-Made Global Warming
  Final dispatch from the International Conference on Climate Change in New York
  Ronald Bailey
  March 11, 2009
• Poll Finds Jobs, Environment Are Top Priority for Americans
  ...but so is almost everything else.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  March 11, 2009
• What Planetary Emergency?
  Dispatch from day two of the International Conference on Climate Change in New York
  Ronald Bailey
  March 10, 2009
• Among the Global Warming Skeptics
  Dispatch from the International Conference on Climate Change in New York
  Ronald Bailey
  March 9, 2009
• Scenes from the Clean Energy Summit
  The special interest groups had fun. But that doesn't make them wrong.
  Ronald Bailey
  February 24, 2009
• Wagging the "Fat Tail" of Climate Catastrophe
  How much should we pay to avoid the tiny risk of total destruction?
  Ronald Bailey
  February 10, 2009
• What's So Smart About Investing in the Smart Grid?
  It makes no sense to throw $4.5 billion at electric power infrastructure
  Ronald Bailey
  February 6, 2009
• Obama's Green Snake Oil
  The president continues to ignore the cost of his global warming plan.
  Jacob Sullum
  January 28, 2009
• President Obama's Fuel Economy Standard Follies
  Politicians want you to pay more when you drive. They just won't admit it.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 27, 2009
• USDA Tries Pricing and Trading Environmental Benefits
  Bringing ecosystem services out of the political realm and into the market would be welcome news
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  January 26, 2009
• Detroit Bets Its Future on Washington
  Carmakers seek to please Congress instead of customers
  Shikha Dalmia and Henry Payne
  January 24, 2009
• No Biofuels Bailout
  Farm energy pork wastes money and harms the environment
  Ronald Bailey
  January 13, 2009
• California Air Resources Board Passes Costly Plan During Economic Crisis
  State can utilize pay-as-you-drive and pay-as-you-save programs for inexpensive environmental improvements
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  December 22, 2008
• Keep the 2009 Reauthorization Focused on Transportation
  Be wary of greenhouse gas reduction proposals
  Robert Poole
  December 1, 2008
• Keep the 2009 Reauthorization Focused on Transportation
  Be wary of greenhouse gas reduction proposals
  Robert Poole
  December 1, 2008
• President-elect Obama's Budget Problems
  Cure the economy or tackle climate change
  Shikha Dalmia
  November 26, 2008
• Measure Q: The Wrong Train
  Massively expensive plan to make miniscule reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  October 28, 2008
• Economy in the Balance
  How the bailout is polluting our financial future
  Anthony Randazzo
  October 2, 2008
• California to Restrict Driving With Latest Global Warming Plan
  State seeks to regulate where you can live so it can reduce your driving
  Samuel Staley
  August 26, 2008
• Patience Can Sometimes Pay
  Why it might in certain circumstances make sense to postpone action on global warming
  Shikha Dalmia
  August 19, 2008
• Cars Disproportionately Blamed for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  Electricity, not transportation is responsible for the largest share of emissions
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  August 12, 2008
• A Carbon-Free Electricity System in 10 Years
  Gore energy plan may signal the twilight of free economies
  Samuel Staley
  July 22, 2008
• Michigan Shows How to Save Endangered Species
  Compensating farmers and working with property owners pays big dividends
  Shikha Dalmia
  July 7, 2008
• Scottsdale Water Condemnation Proposal Leaves a Bad Taste
  Exercising eminent domain to take over private water utility is fiscally irresponsible, violates private property rights
  Leonard Gilroy
  June 30, 2008
• What Exactly Is One Planet Living?
  Interview with Kirstie Moore, Sustainability Project Manager for Sonoma Mountain Village
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  June 10, 2008
• Cap & Trade: Why It's Tax & Spend
  Senate plan won't cool planet, but will raise taxes
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 2, 2008
• Paper Grocery Bags Require More Energy Than Plastic Bags
  Paper vs. plastic debate shows how good environmental intentions coupled with bad information lead us astray
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  April 17, 2008
• Reviewing Blue Covenant
  Giving governments more control of water isn't the answer
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  April 3, 2008
• Ahnuld's Folly
  NYers lucky to escape fake warming fix
  Shikha Dalmia
  December 26, 2007
• "Clean Water Restoration Act" Would Expand Federal Powers
  Over 100 Conservationists, Seniors Advocates, Farm Bureaus, Civil Rights Leaders, Cattlemen, and Taxpayer Action Groups Detail Potential for Abuse
  Adrian Moore
  October 7, 2007
• Comments on Proposed Permit Regulations for the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
  Proposed permit regime puts at risk the very species the Act is supposed to protect
  Brian Seasholes
  September 3, 2007
• Technology, Not Transit, Is Key to Improving Mobility
  Reducing impacts on the environment through innovation, not transit mandates
  Samuel Staley
  August 29, 2007
• California's Looming Water Crisis
  State needs peripheral canal sending Sacramento water to Southern California
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  July 26, 2007
• Feds Can Turn Your Land Into a Defacto Federal Wildlife Refuge
  Endangered Species Act pits landowners against animals we hope to save
  Brian Seasholes
  June 26, 2007
• Environmental Timetables Built for Style, Not Substance
  Cutting emissions, reducing use of foreign oil, using more renewable energy requires a lot more than just goals
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  June 12, 2007
• Dam the Salmon
  Environmentalists can't bring themselves to embrace any sacrifice
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 30, 2007
• The Rush to Ban Incandescent Light Bulbs and Plastic Bags
  Life-cycle analysis shows energy costs and pollution from the "solutions" will create new problems
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  May 9, 2007
• Can Carbon Taxes Work in India?
  More than half of India's economy is fueled by "dirty" fuels like coal and wood
  Shikha Dalmia
  April 30, 2007
• Hollywood: Do as I say, not as I do
  Global warming strategy consists of asking others to sacrifice
  Samuel Staley
  March 14, 2007
• Burying Evidence
  The Union of Concerned Scientists' unscientific claims about air pollution and health
  Joel Schwartz
  January 16, 2007
• Recycling Law Needs to be Thrown Out
  California's plastic bag bill
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  August 24, 2006
• Much-Heralded Plan to Stop Global Warming Fails
  Europe's carbon trading scheme flops, now what?
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 22, 2006
• Can Bill Ford Defeat His Green Goblins?
  As automaker runs out of gas, nature bunny great-grandson steers into a hole
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 1, 2006
• Comments on Docket ID No. EPA—OAR—2001—0017, National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter
  ohn Dale Dunn and Adrian Moore
  April 17, 2006
• Getting Clean Water to the Rest of the World
  Public-private partnerships can play vital role
  Geoffrey Segal
  March 31, 2006
• Big Stake in Wetlands Case
  Existing wetlands already outsize California and feds want more
  Shikha Dalmia and Leonard Gilroy
  February 20, 2006
• More than 25,000 Private Drinking Water Systems in US
  Why would Mass. want to ban water privatization?
  Geoffrey Segal
  October 28, 2005
• Clean Water Act's Ever-Expanding Reach
  Michigan landowner takes government's water grab to Supreme Court
  Shikha Dalmia
  October 27, 2005
• Puddle Jumpers in the Great Lakes State
  The EPA's twenty-year war to make everything a wetland
  Shikha Dalmia
  October 24, 2005
• Endangered Species Act Needs Dose of Sanity
  Changes encourage property owners to help preservation efforts
  Shikha Dalmia
  October 5, 2005
• Katrina Reveals Gas Price Folly
  Environmentalists, NIMBYs have blocked new oil refineries for 30 years
  Adrian Moore
  September 1, 2005
• Crichton's State of Fear
  Book exposes faulty climate change arguments
  Kenneth Green
  January 19, 2005
• Kyoto Protocol Is Dead
  Europeans isolated on climate change
  Ronald Bailey
  December 17, 2004
• Can We Avoid 'Dangerous' Climate Change?
  Steep emissions reductions unlikely
  Ronald Bailey
  December 16, 2004
• Crichton's Chilling Tales
  Review of State of Fear
  Ronald Bailey
  December 10, 2004
• New York Times Whiffs on Air Pollution
  News stories leave false impression about environment
  Ronald Bailey
  December 1, 2004
• California Dreamin'
  State's environmental standards misguided
  Kenneth Green
  November 15, 2004
• Smog Hits Record Low in 2004
  Lowest ozone smog levels since measurements began
  Joel Schwartz
  October 12, 2004
• Cleaning the Air in California
  Plan to cut greenhouse gases is bad policy
  Kenneth Green
  September 22, 2004
• False Claim That Global Warming Will Increase Smog Levels
  Deceptive studies harm science's credibility
  Joel Schwartz
  August 4, 2004
• New Zealand the Leader in Healthy Fishing
  Letter to the Editor
  Michael De Alessi
  July 26, 2004
• More Highways, Less Pollution
  New report ignores positive trends
  Joel Schwartz
  July 20, 2004
• Toxic Activism
  Air pollution has been solved as a long-term problem
  Joel Schwartz
  July 8, 2004
• Resolving Overfishing
  Property rights, fishing quotas key
  Michael De Alessi
  July 1, 2004
• EPA's Make Work Project
  Unleashing a new layer of Clean Air bureaucracy
  Joel Schwartz
  July 1, 2004
• State of the Scare, Once Again
  American Lung Association report distorts
  Steven Hayward and Joel Schwartz
  May 3, 2004
• Letter to US Commission on Ocean Policy
  Individual fishing quotas needed
  Michael De Alessi
  May 1, 2004
• Oceans Need Innovation, Not Bureaucracy
  Stewardship and property rights are essential
  Michael De Alessi
  April 26, 2004
• Ivory Tower Take on Ivory Trade
  Elephant poaching
  Michael De Alessi
  April 1, 2004
• California's Fishy Fish Laws
  Fishing rights can stop overfishing
  Michael De Alessi
  March 29, 2004
• More Highways, More Pollution?
  Air pollution decreases even as we drive more
  Joel Schwartz
  March 16, 2004
• Processor Quotas Threaten Individual Fishing Quotas
  Forcing crab fisheries to sell is bad policy
  Michael De Alessi and Donald R. Leal
  December 30, 2003
• Endangered Species Act Turns 30
  Results few and far between
  Michael De Alessi
  December 26, 2003
• Stockton: Don't Water Down Efficiency, Productivity
  Contract enhances environmental control, authority
  Geoffrey Segal
  December 12, 2003
• Protecting People and Pachyderms
  Conservation and commerce work to help wildlife
  Michael De Alessi
  December 5, 2003
• Why Water Privatization Adds Up
  1 in 6 Americans gets drinking water from privately owned systems
  Adrian Moore
  November 21, 2003
• Smart Growth Increases Pollution Woes
  Kern County's smart growth is dumb choice
  Joel Schwartz and Wendell Cox
  August 10, 2003
• National Parks Need Competitive Sourcing
  Testimony to US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
  Geoffrey Segal
  July 24, 2003
• One Fish, Two Fish, You Fish, I Fish
  Transferable fishing rights can help seas
  Michael De Alessi
  July 1, 2003
• Clearing the Air
  American air quality has improved dramatically
  Joel Schwartz
  July 1, 2003
• Earth Day
  Encourage environmental stewardship and private conservation
  Michael De Alessi
  April 22, 2003
• Arrogant and Corrupt
  California Coastal Commission should be restructured
  Michael De Alessi
  April 5, 2003
• Elephants, Markets, and Mandates
  Protecting endangered species
  Michael De Alessi
  April 1, 2003
• State of the Air Report
  Four questions to ask American Lung Association
  Joel Schwartz and Steven Hayward
  April 1, 2003
• Stockton: Privatize or Pay Higher Water Rates
  Outsourcing would save $175 million
  Geoffrey Segal
  February 25, 2003
• Atlanta: Pulling the Plug on Water Deal a Mistake
  City's mistake will haunt taxpayers
  Geoffrey Segal
  January 28, 2003
• What Can We Learn From Atlanta's Water Privatization
  Lost in debate: City saving $21 million per year
  Geoffrey Segal
  January 21, 2003
• Utilities Takeover by Cities a Mistake
  Lower bills, increased revenue is a mirage
  Adrian Moore
  January 14, 2003
• Politics As Usual Blocks Water Deal
  Farmers, environmentalists can find common ground
  Michael De Alessi
  December 11, 2002
• Far From Perfect Deal for San Diego
  California water rights need to be better defined
  Michael De Alessi
  November 18, 2002
• CO2 Emissions Trading
  Creating a market for carbon dioxide emissions
  Lynne Kiesling
  October 23, 2002
• Resolving Environmental Issues While Improving Water Rights
  Peformance measures needed
  Adrian Moore
  October 1, 2002
• Making People and Environment Better Off in India
  Property rights at crux of environmental protection
  Michael De Alessi
  September 24, 2002
• Conservation Subdivision Design
  A market-friendly approach to local environmental protection
  Leonard Gilroy
  August 6, 2002
• Pavley's Ploy May Carjack Motorists
  Plan will hurt taxpayers, but won't dent global warming
  Kenneth Green
  July 5, 2002
• American Lung Association's Report Misleads Public
  Pollution isn't getting worse
  Kenneth Green
  April 30, 2002
• Warning: Eco-Posturing Ahead in CA
  Are Californians responsible for global warming?
  Kenneth Green
  April 5, 2002
• Air Pollution and Mortality
  Exaggerating risk no better than ignoring real air problems
  Kenneth Green and Joel Schwartz
  March 12, 2002
• Does Pollution Cause Ashtma?
  Children exposed to current levels of pollution at virtually no risk of developing asthma
  Joel Schwartz
  February 20, 2002
• Stiffing California Motorists
  Carbon dioxide law won't clean the air
  Kenneth Green
  February 5, 2002
• Grading the Graders
  How advocacy groups mislead public on pollution
  Joel Schwartz
  December 6, 2001
• Facts, Not Agendas in Textbooks
  Slanted environmental news shouldn't be in schools
  Kenneth Green
  December 2, 2001
• Getting the Bias Out of Environmental Communications
  Textbooks, reports need science, not politics
  Kenneth Green
  October 1, 2001
• Major Media Mangle Global Warming Report
  Reports ignore stated uncertainty
  Kenneth Green
  June 7, 2001
• National Academy of Sciences Raises More Climate Questions
  Report acknowledges limitations of scientific understanding
  Kenneth Green
  June 7, 2001
• Evaluating the American Lung Association's State of the Air Report
  Report overstates exposure
  Joel Schwartz
  May 4, 2001
• Conservation, Not Commerce Keys Revival of Environmental Localism
  Local decision making critical to environmental protection
  Lynn Scarlett
  March 2, 2001
• IPCC Global Warming Report Fails to Deliver Sound Policy
  Climate change certainty misrepresented
  Kenneth Green
  February 27, 2001
• Future of Waste Technology
  Market forces drive changes
  Lynn Scarlett
  February 7, 2001
• Texas Enters Global Warming Fray
  Carbon sequestration should be looked at
  Kenneth Green
  January 16, 2001
• Attacks on Norton, Whitman Focus on Form, Not Results
  New environmentalism encourages private sector stewardship
  Lynn Scarlett
  January 15, 2001
• Moderate Environmental Agenda on Horizon
  Bush's focus will be on problem solving
  Lynn Scarlett
  January 2, 2001
• Industrial Ecology on the Horizon
  The search for waste reductions
  Lynn Scarlett
  December 5, 2000
• Group's Summary Overheats Warming Threat
  Rhetoric doesn't match data
  Kenneth Green
  November 27, 2000
• E-Waste Politics
  Users should decide how to discard products
  Lynn Scarlett
  October 4, 2000
• Garbage Mess: Private Sector is Cleaning Up
  Private landfill management grows
  Geoffrey Segal
  September 12, 2000
• Diversion and Consolidation
  Predictions of future waste management efforts
  Lynn Scarlett
  August 4, 2000
• Landfill Challenges and Environmental Justice
  Landfills will face high hurdles
  Lynn Scarlett
  March 6, 2000
• A Six-point Environmental Flexibility Checklist
  Christopher A. Hartwell
  September 1, 1999
• States Can Teach the Feds
  Pennsylvania shows incentives work better than mandates
  Lynn Scarlett
  July 31, 1999
• The Facts about Wastewater, Stormwater, and Water Contract Management in the City of Stockton
  Myths and facts about water privatization
  Geoffrey Segal
  January 1, 1999
• Waste Minimization, Resource Conservation, and Environmental Progress
  Voluntary models of shared responsibility
  Lynn Scarlett
  December 1, 1998
• Green Hand of Progress
  Recycling often encourages inefficient resource use
  Lynn Scarlett
  January 13, 1998
• Recycling Yes, Mandates No
  Mandates are wrongheaded
  Lynn Scarlett
  September 5, 1997

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