The federal production tax credit for wind energy (PTC) should be extended — and reformed. The debate over the fate of the PTC, whether to extend in its current form or allow it to expire outright on December […]

Plutonium is the nuclear nightmare of nuclear power. A by-product of conventional power-station reactors, it is the key ingredient in nuclear weapons. And even when not made into bombs, it is a million-year […]

Over the last decade, a handful of progressives and climate policy experts have argued that the dominant approach to dealing with global warming — capping emissions, putting a price on carbon — could not […]

U.S. emissions have dropped 7.7% since 2006 due to the rapid switch from coal to shale gas.  All this cheap gas came from a concerted, public-private effort dating back to the mid-1970s to cheaply extract gas […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged – amongst my friends and relations at least – that organic agriculture is better for the planet. Environmentally-conscious consumers typically are prepared to pay a hefty […]

A glut of emissions allowances in Europe has made coal the continent’s most profitable electric power fuel.

Despite highly touted climate policies, European utilities are rushing to capitalize on the […]

In the 50 years since Silent Spring was published, the environmental movement it helped create has accomplished a great deal. It may be less popular to suggest, but it is no less true, that this seminal book […]

The roots of liberal policy failure are intertwined with the dark side of scientific rationality.

During the 1980s and 1990s, experts working for the World Bank and development agencies persuaded African […]

The Washington Post has called on lawmakers to put innovation at the center of federal policies supporting wind power, in the latest endorsement of the findings in “Beyond Boom and Bust,” a report by leading […]

America is in the midst of a natural gas boom, fueled principally by the development of technologies enabling the extraction of large gas reserves trapped in shale formations. Shales now produce over 25 […]

Climate economics until recently mostly treated global warming as a challenge of distributing scarce resources (e.g., the right to pollute), not of creating new ones (e.g., cheap zero carbon energy sources). […]

Coal power use will rise an estimated 13.5 percent in Germany this year, resulting in at least 14 million metric tons of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, even as the nation continues to 

In yet another sign of a growing consensus in support of energy policies that prioritize innovation, the New York Times on Sunday endorsed the recommendations of “Beyond Boom and Bust,” a recent report by […]

The recent gains made by clean tech sectors in the United States are shadowed by the looming collapse of federal subsidy support, which has been a powerful driver of expanding clean energy markets. As […]