Environment & Energy

When people think of Hollywood and politics, they are likely to envision Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, or any of a host of politically active stars waxing poetic about the environment and volunteering their efforts to raise money for the common cause.

In a victory for private property rights, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that taking one owner’s private property and giving it to another for private use is an unconstitutional use of the power of eminent domain.

Canada’s drawn-out deliberation over whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol is threatening to upset a carefully crafted, global environmentalist agenda.

The United States Supreme Court in April brought to a close 14 years of litigation by Lake Tahoe Basin property owners. In doing so, the Court opened the door to increased restriction of private property by governments at every level.

The collapse of the World Trade Center twin towers brought the issue of asbestos back into the spotlight, both for the harm it may have prevented and the harm it may have caused.

As the Battle of Malibu was being waged on the West Coast, some of the biggest stars of the entertainment industry headed East and played out another episode of environmental activist scandal.

Contrary to well-publicized claims by the anti-automobile Surface Transportation Policy Project, cities that have emphasized transit over highways experienced the greatest increases in congestion over the past two decades.

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This table lays out the time traveled, the hours spent on the road, etc., by noted smart growth and transportation scholar Randall O'Toole.

In fast-growing regions, “smart-growth” advocates often use people's fears that existing residents are forced to subsidize newcomers in order to build support for restricted growth policies.

A growing number of severe forest fires in recent years has many environmental scientists convinced America should open up its National Forests to a greater annual timber harvest.

More than 20,000 people held a “bucket brigade” in Klamath Falls, Oregon on May 7 to protest the federal government’s decision to cut off irrigation water that serves more than 90 percent of the farmers in the area.

To no one’s surprise, the latest traffic congestion numbers from the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) show that traffic congestion is increasing across the nation.

Anti-logging and anti-commercial fishing advocacy groups on May 1 petitioned the federal government to grant endangered species status to a group of Pacific Northwest orcas known as the “southern residents.

Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has decided to scrap a Clinton administration plan to reintroduce grizzly bears into areas of Montana and Idaho.

A federal judge in Idaho has blocked a ban on new roads in nearly half of America’s National Forests, ruling the ban would cause irreparable harm to multi-use interests.

In an early March briefing before congressional staff, members of the press, and scientists, Professor Richard S.

Introductions of new species or restoration efforts can be construed as quite presumptuous.

According to many New Era Environmentalists, the partnership of Carol Browner at EPA and Bruce Babbitt at the Interior Department has been a long nightmare for rural Americans, advocates of sound science, and market-based environmental policies.

Ralph Nader's Green Party arrived on the scene last summer with a big bang. Many people feel it left with a whimper when the dust settled on the strangest of all national elections.

From a tea party in Boston Harbor to Vietnam War marches, protesting against government is firmly rooted in the American psyche.

Cape Town, South Africa—Recent world conferences on agricultural biotechnology have made it unmistakably clear that if governments foil the growth of this technology, mankind will be denied solutions to a host of problems that plague many nations,

Project 21, an African-American leadership network, has been joined by African leaders in urging that Africa be provided with the tools it needs to feed its people.

In August 1999, television viewers across the country tuned in to CBS Evening News heard correspondent Wyatt Andrews say, “This growing concern over biotechnology in the food chain is also reflected in a new study, the first field study to show that