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• Rethinking Washington State Parks: How to Avoid Governor Inslee’s Plan to Close 60 State Parks
  Antiquated, top-down management model is unsustainable; private sector can play major role
  Leonard Gilroy
  May 17, 2013
• Water and Wastewater Privatization Update
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Local Government Privatization
  Harris Kenny
  May 6, 2013
• Solid Waste Collection Update
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Local Government Privatization
  Harris Kenny
  May 6, 2013
• Finding New Ways to Provide Parks and Recreation Amenities
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Local Government Privatization
  Harris Kenny
  May 6, 2013
• California Pioneers Public-Private Partnerships for Private Operation of State Parks
  Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: State Government Privatization
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 22, 2013
• A Public-Private Partnership Could Help the ABQ BioPark Zoo
  Finding Ways to Address Budget Deficits and Deferred Maintenance
  Katie Furtick and Harris Kenny
  November 19, 2012
• Future Storms Like Superstorm Sandy Could Bankrupt States
  Some state governments are so far into the insurance business that they could be bankrupted by storm claims
  Julian Morris and Katie Furtick
  November 5, 2012
• Tortoises and BrightSource Are Costing Taxpayers Dearly
  Latest green energy boondoggle shows why the government shouldn't be picking winners
  Julian Morris
  September 10, 2012
• Emanuel Administration Embracing Private Sector Competition in Chicago
  New $7 billion infrastructure trust developing alongside initiatives in recycling, water and elsewhere
  Harris Kenny
  May 15, 2012
• A Cost Effective Way to Cut Smog
  Why the Environmental Protection Agency’s ozone plan will do more harm than good
  Julian Morris and Adam Peshek
  March 14, 2012
• The Facts Behind the EPA’s Latest Proposal
  How the agency is using fuzzy math to justify a costly regulation
  Adam Peshek
  February 16, 2012
• Obama laughs over spilled milk but fines companies for not producing fictional fuel
  Adam Peshek
  January 30, 2012
• Checking the Facts on President Obama's "Energy Facts"
  Debunking the claims made in the president's most recent campaign ad
  Adam Peshek
  January 24, 2012
• President Obama Wrong on Keystone
  How the president put the interests of a few environmentalists before the interests of the entire nation
  Adam Peshek
  January 18, 2012
• The World's Population Reaches 7 Billion, But Don't Let the UN Scare You
  UN is wrong on food shortages and climate change
  Julian Morris
  November 3, 2011
• The EPA Is Overreaching Again
  New boiler regulations could cost economy more than $10 billion
  Julian Morris and Adam Peshek
  October 25, 2011
• The Conservative Reversal on Science
  Magical thinking is no substitute for verifiable facts.
  Steve Chapman
  September 1, 2011
• EPA jumps the gun with job-killing rules
  Agency’s new blow to air-quality standard comes two years early
  Adam Peshek
  August 19, 2011
• The Myth of Pristine Nature
  A review of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
  Ronald Bailey
  August 16, 2011
• Natural Gas Flip-Flop
  Big environmental groups were for fracking before they were against it.
  Ronald Bailey
  July 22, 2011
• An Environmentalist Joins the Reality-Based Community
  A review of Mark Lynas' The God Species
  Ronald Bailey
  July 19, 2011
• Climate Change and Confirmation Bias
  A new study suggests that your values, not science, determine your views about climate change.
  Ronald Bailey
  July 12, 2011
• Lukewarmers, Denialists, and Other Climate Change Skeptics
  Impressions and reporting from the Sixth International Climate Change Conference
  Ronald Bailey
  July 5, 2011
• Al Gore's Ugly Rhetoric
  The latest pseudoscience from the former vice president
  David Harsanyi
  June 29, 2011
• Among the Biotech Conventioneers
  A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 28, 2011
• Congress Moves to Ban Frankenfish
  Special interests trump science in the debate over transgenic salmon.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 21, 2011
• Republicans vs. the Environment
  Does the GOP have any solutions for environmental problems?
  Steve Chapman
  June 16, 2011
• I, Pineapple
  Reason's science correspondent files a second dispatch from his sustainability tour in Costa Rica.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 15, 2011
• "If It's Plastic, It's Organic"
  Reason's science correspondent goes on a junket to Costa Rica in search of sustainability.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 14, 2011
• Don't Close State Parks; Lease Them
  Partnering with the private sector to save California's state parks
  Harris Kenny
  May 20, 2011
• Plentiful Fuel
  The facts about fracking
  John Stossel
  May 19, 2011
• Environmentalists Were For Fracking Before They Were Against It
  Shale gas is still the bridge fuel to a low-carbon energy future.
  Ronald Bailey
  May 10, 2011
• The Politics of Protection
  The battles over the Endangered Species Act are all too human.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 10, 2011
• A Grandstanding Attorney General
  Why Ken Cuccinelli should drop his misguided case against climatologist Michael Mann
  A. Barton Hinkle
  May 4, 2011
• Fear Itself
  A one-in-a-million risk may not be imaginary, but it's pretty damned close to it.
  Ronald Bailey
  April 12, 2011
• Radiation Non-Alert
  Japan’s broken nuclear reactors will have no detectable effect on the health of Americans.
  Ronald Bailey
  March 29, 2011
• 2010 Highlights in State Government Privatization
  Reviewing privatization highlights in lotteries, child welfare, social infrastructure and more
  Leonard Gilroy
  March 23, 2011
• An Overreaching Attorney General
  ObamaCare foe Ken Cuccinelli's misguided fight to expand state power in Virginia
  A. Barton Hinkle
  March 18, 2011
• Obama's Green-Jobs Fantasy
  Don't buy the president's environmental snake oil
  John Stossel
  March 10, 2011
• Global Warming By Another Name
  Obama's clean energy boondoggle will be expensive for America
  Shikha Dalmia
  March 7, 2011
• Deconsumption Versus Dematerialization
  How to protect the environment by doing more with less
  Ronald Bailey
  February 15, 2011
• Obama Isn't Fooling Anyone
  The president is no deregulator
  David Harsanyi
  January 19, 2011
• Carbon Rationing By Other Means
  After Congress fails to regulate greenhouse gasses, the president hands the job over to the EPA
  Ronald Bailey
  December 28, 2010
• Cancun Climate Change Breakthrough Greatly Exaggerated
  Climate change negotiators agree to meet again next year in Durban. And that's pretty much all they agree on.
  Ronald Bailey
  December 14, 2010
• Cancunhagen
  Fourth dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 10, 2010
• Cancun Crunch Time
  Third dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 9, 2010
• Cancun Climate Platitudes and Predictions
  Second dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 8, 2010
• Cancun Climate Change Shakedown
  First dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 7, 2010
• Making Parks Decent Again
  How the private sector can save public parks
  John Stossel
  December 2, 2010
• Rare Earth Ruckus
  Are we at the mercy of China's mercantilist mandarins?
  Ronald Bailey
  November 23, 2010
• Natural Is Not Always Better
  What's so great about "free-range" beef?
  John Stossel
  November 18, 2010
• A Techno-Agrarian Manifesto
  Is vertical farming the future of American agriculture?
  Greg Beato
  November 17, 2010
• Some Really Inconvenient Truths
  Bjørn Lomborg fights the forces of climate hysteria in the new documentary Cool It.
  Kurt Loder
  November 11, 2010
• Job-Killing Environmentalists
  How the EPA cripples the American economy
  Jon Basil Utley
  November 10, 2010
• Can the Climate Be Fixed?
  A new book offers a clear-eyed view of the technological and economic magnitude of addressing climate change.
  Ronald Bailey
  November 9, 2010
• Plastic Water Bottles Won't Hurt You
  Ignore the junk science and follow the facts.
  John Stossel
  October 28, 2010
• Will a Republican Congress Knock Science Back Into the Stone Age?
  Predicting the effect of a victory for the G.O.P. "know-nothing flat-earthers" on science policy
  Ronald Bailey
  October 26, 2010
• The Eternal Return of Overpopulation
  Getting the cause of high fertility backwards.
  Ronald Bailey
  October 19, 2010
• Let Them Eat Frankenfish!
  After 15 years, the FDA is about to let genetically modified fish enter the food supply. It's about time.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 24, 2010
• Fixing the Global Warming Establishment with New Lipstick
  A review of the IPCC process is a huge missed opportunity
  Shikha Dalmia
  September 17, 2010
• Wind Turbines Are Beautiful
  ...but a tad expensive.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 14, 2010
• The Visionary
  Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand on the future, the environment, libertarianism, and the Merry Pranksters
  Brian Doherty
  September 10, 2010
• Is Gassing Wolf Pups Better Than Hunting Their Parents?
  Environmentalists force a tough choice in the Northern Rockies.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 7, 2010
• Biotech Beets Banned
  Beet ban will hurt farmers while strengthening massive seed monopolies
  Ronald Bailey
  August 17, 2010
• Invasion of the Invasive Species!
  Local biodiversity is increasing.
  Ronald Bailey
  August 10, 2010
• Bid Adios to the Anti-Global Warming Movement
  Now that Harry Reid has abandoned cap-and-trade, the movement has no ideas left.
  Shikha Dalmia
  August 2, 2010
• Got Environmental Problems? Think Government.
  Foreign Policy identifies true environmental catastrophes, but misses the main cause.
  Ronald Bailey
  July 20, 2010
• Forcing Consumers to Buy Renewable Energy
  Congress pretends to solve an energy crisis
  Ronald Bailey
  July 13, 2010
• The Government's Catastrophic Response to the Oil Disaster
  Washington's reaction is causing greater damage than the event itself.
  Jon Basil Utley
  July 9, 2010
• Sustainability Semantics
  John Locke, the U.N., and how to figure out if an acre of land would rather be a swamp or a cornfield
  Ronald Bailey
  July 6, 2010
• Scientific Consensus Redux
  Looking back, it turns out that a lot of scientific consensuses were wrong.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 29, 2010
• Taking State Parks off the State's Books, Part 2
  Do we need a public sector monopoly on the operation of public lands?
  Leonard Gilroy
  June 24, 2010
• Chinese Environmentalism: Prestige Over People?
  Why China needs democracy to consolidate its environmental gains.
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 15, 2010
• The Talking Cure for the Tragedy of the Commons
  Bad things happen when governments keep people from cutting their own deals on resource management
  Ronald Bailey
  June 8, 2010
• Selling Free Food
  Entrepreneurial foraging is the next phase of greener-than-thou eating
  Greg Beato
  May 27, 2010
• Going "Green"
  Separating environmental fact from fiction
  John Stossel
  May 27, 2010
• Who's Afraid of Synthetic Biology?
  Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research.
  Ronald Bailey
  May 25, 2010
• The Kerry-Lieberman Scheme for Carbon Rationing
  The American Power Act will raise energy prices, reduce incomes, cut jobs, and do precious little about climate change.
  Ronald Bailey
  May 18, 2010
• Cap and Scam
  The trouble with the new Kerry-Lieberman bill
  David Harsanyi
  May 17, 2010
• This Land is Your Land; This Land is My Land
  Why do the feds spend so much to make our Western wilderness theirs?
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 26, 2010
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gaia
  Is Mother Nature punishing mankind with the Icelandic volcano?
  Brendan O'Neill
  April 21, 2010
• Earth Day Turns 40
  Environmentalist pioneers have had it their way for four decades. It's time for a change.
  Ronald Bailey
  April 20, 2010
• Taking State Parks off the State's Books
  Tap the private sector to take over operations, management of state parks
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 14, 2010
• On Being a 21st Century Peasant
  Environmentalist Bill McKibben's new book on the coming global collapse.
  Ronald Bailey
  April 13, 2010
• Red Ink and Green Jobs
  Citizens of the Golden State get nervous about carbon rationing plans made in flusher times
  Ronald Bailey
  April 6, 2010
• Does Bus Transit Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
  Thomas Rubin, Marcy Lowe, Bengu Aytekin and Gary Gereffi Debate Public Transit Buses: A Green Choice Gets Greener
  April 5, 2010
• Nancy Pelosi: Jobs Junkie
  The Speaker of the House just can't stop talking about jobs
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  March 24, 2010
• ‘You Cut Spending’
  Former New Mexico governor and possible presidential candidate Gary Johnson talks about Obamanomics, ending the drug war, and climbing the highest mountains.
  Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
  March 16, 2010
• Sea Turtle Tastes Like Veal
  Can eating endangered species help save them?
  Ronald Bailey
  March 9, 2010
• Cap and Trade is Dead
  Long live cap and trade.
  Ronald Bailey
  March 2, 2010
• Everyone Who Knows What They're Talking About Agrees with Me
  And everyone who doesn't wears a tin foil hat
  Ronald Bailey
  February 23, 2010
• Climate Crackup
  A breakdown in Copenhagen saves a divided world from carbon rationing.
  Ronald Bailey
  February 17, 2010
• Who Doesn't Trust Science Now?
  Weird weather, Climategate, and the dangers of faith-based science
  David Harsanyi
  February 17, 2010
• The EPA’s Carbon Footprint
  Federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will impose new controls on millions of Americans.
  Jonathan H. Adler
  February 15, 2010
• Reading a Sculpture
  Art interpretation and climate change.
  Jesse Walker
  February 12, 2010
• Overpaying for Green Power
  Americans are adopting a failed type of clean energy subsidy—the feed-in tariff—just as Europeans are abandoning it.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 26, 2010
• Who Needs Energy Independence?
  Let free trade and the free market work.
  John Stossel
  January 21, 2010
• Obama Follows in Bush's Footsteps on Climate Change
  The era of massive global climate meetings may finally be ending. Thank goodness.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 19, 2010
• Proposed City Water Grab Draining Scottsdale Tax Dollars
  Unnecessary move bad for taxpayers
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 15, 2010
• Faux Recovery
  Don't believe the hype about green jobs
  David Harsanyi
  January 13, 2010
• Global Warming and Melting Ice
  The seas are rising, but you've still got time to enjoy your beach house
  Ronald Bailey
  December 29, 2009
• The Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Nuke Environmentalists
  Why do environmentalists reject a good bet for renewable energy?
  Ronald Bailey
  December 22, 2009
• Copenhagen Climate Conference Collapses
  Ronald Bailey's fifth and final dispatch from the Copenhagen climate conference
  Ronald Bailey
  December 18, 2009
• The Green Jobs Delusion
  Ronald Bailey's fourth dispatch from the Copenhagen climate conference.
  Ronald Bailey
  December 17, 2009
• Free Stuff from Uncle Sam
  Why the government shouldn't be in the business of taking our money and then giving it back.
  John Stossel
  December 17, 2009
• Can the Climate Conference Avoid Diplomatic Doom?
  Ronald Bailey's third dispatch from the Copenhagen climate conference
  Ronald Bailey
  December 16, 2009
• Hide the Decline
  Why government-funded scientists should release their documents
  David Harsanyi
  December 16, 2009
• "The Most Important Number in the World"
  Ron Bailey's first dispatch from the Copenhagen climate change conference
  Ronald Bailey
  December 14, 2009
• When Science Becomes a Casualty of Politics
  Getting to the root of Climategate
  Cathy Young
  December 14, 2009
• Our Way or... Well, Our Way
  Should the EPA have the authority to police greenhouse gases?
  David Harsanyi
  December 9, 2009
• What’s the Best Way to Handle Future Climate Change?
  Carbon markets, carbon taxes, technological push, or economic growth?
  Ronald Bailey
  December 8, 2009
• We-Don't-Want-To-Talk-About-It-Gate
  Why won't more politicians talk about Climategate?
  David Harsanyi
  December 5, 2009
• The Scientific Tragedy of Climategate
  Can climate change science recover from the damage done by leaked emails?
  Ronald Bailey
  December 4, 2009
• Cringing Over Climategate
  A major scandal was exposed. So why won't Obama acknowledge it?
  Shikha Dalmia
  December 4, 2009
• Emissions Cuts Would Cost India Dearly
  The poor can't afford a big tax on energy usage, or a return to the License Raj of times past
  Shikha Dalmia
  December 4, 2009
• A Reason To Be Skeptical
  The lessons of Climategate
  David Harsanyi
  December 2, 2009
• 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
• National Academy of Sciences Raises More Climate Questions
  Report acknowledges limitations of scientific understanding
  Kenneth Green
  June 7, 2001
• Major Media Mangle Global Warming Report
  Reports ignore stated uncertainty
  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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