"Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are going to make lots of noise this fall with their high-profile Breakthrough, a book that received a mega-advance and that followed up "The Death of Environmentalism," an essay that horrified the environmental establishment when it made the rounds two years ago.

The pair of...

It may simply be too ironic to ignore. Last week, former Massachusetts Governor Willard Mitt Romney told reporters at a private fundraising event in Corona, California that the nation needed to strive for energy independence.

Romney's schtick: The United State depends too heavily on foreign oil.

And in the July...