It is ironical that the region of the country most vulnerable to economic loss from climate change-related extreme weather is the Southeast. One says ...
The correlation between the ideological environmental negativity of other Republican-controlled "red" state congressional delegations and sub-par conditions in their respective jurisdictions remains striking.
Statistics are all too often used as a cop-out in dealing with climate change instead of serving to sound the alarm and encourage the public to become more engaged.
In 1998 and for the subsequent eight years or so, I remained agnostic regarding what I viewed as the trade-offs between cap-and-trade and carbon taxes. What happened to change that? Three words: The Hamilton Project.
You don't hear many Republicans praise the drop in the unemployment rate below eight percent. Why couldn't they give the American economy credit where credit was due?
By dismissing Obama's clean energy initiative as wasteful, wishful thinking, Mitt Romney and the Republican Party are displaying obliviousness to potential oblivion. They have totally ignored an elemental objective of the Obama program -- slowing the pace of global warming.
The negotiating teams are now tasked under the Durban Platform with identifying a new comprehensive policy architecture. The negotiators are therefore hungry for new ideas, in particular for outside-the-box thinking.
Recent back-to-back speeches given by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) illustrate the sharp contrast in that chamber between environmental activists and their opposition.
Both he and President Obama have so far avoided any significant reference to environmental matters that have potentially life and death implications for future generations, if not out own. How does one correct this great disservice to the American people?
In many respects, the recent United Nations Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro was a sad commentary on the international community's -- and our own -...
Unlike the environmental threats addressed successfully in past U.S. legislation, climate change is essentially unobservable to the general population.
There is no denying the inexorable law of supply and demand's effect on the earth's remaining natural resources.
Since when are low prices considered to be a problem? To understand what's going on, we need to remind ourselves of the purpose (and promise) of a cap-and-trade regime, and then look at what's been happening in the respective markets.
In previous White House contests, environmental concerns rarely surfaced in the exchanges between candidates. But the 2012 campaign could be different.
Of course the pollutocrats don't pitch their agenda as pro-pollution and anti-nature. Instead, they make it sound as though the only things standing between us and economic nirvana are some fussy environmental rules enforced by arrogant officials.
In 2009, the U.S. Congress considered but ultimately failed to enact legislation aimed at limiting U.S. greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. The bill unde...
The Sixth Edition of Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings has just been published by W. W. Norton & Company of New York and London. Throug...
The national delegations from around the world now have a challenging task: To find a way to include all key countries in a structure that brings about meaningful emissions reductions on an appropriate timetable at acceptable cost.
Two weeks of international climate negotiations begin today in Durban, South Africa. These are the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of ...
Republican congressional leaders persist in the belief that advancing economic expansion at the expense of environmental protection is a winning strategy. They never learn.
In the U.S., political polarization has decimated what had long been the key political constituency in the Congress for environmental action, namely, the middle, including both moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats.
Why have Congressional House Republicans unleashed an unprecedented assault on the nation's environmental regulatory framework even as they profess to care as much as anyone about clean air and water?
Uneven media coverage of climate change is undoubtedly contributing to the United States' dubious distinction of being the only nation with a sizable segment of its population in global warming denial.
The international community may have begun to recognize that incremental steps in the right direction are better than acrimonious debates over unachievable targets
How does the eventual Republican nominee appeal to a wider audience without alienating his or her base?
