Energy and Environment

Is Climate Change a Prisoner's Dilemma or a Stag Hunt?

• Vann R. Newkirk II
• April 21, 2016

Game Theory and Climate Change: Defining the Problem

• Vann R. Newkirk II
• April 19, 2016

The Environmental Impact of Gun Ranges

The residual lead from years of spent bullets can endanger human health and contaminate the surrounding area. And yet there’s little federal oversight.

• Alex Yablon and The Trace
• April 19, 2016

The Democrats' Most Substantive Climate Debate Yet

It’s probably the best exchange on energy that American voters will hear this year.

• Robinson Meyer
• April 15, 2016

Using Game Theory to Break the Climate Gridlock

• Vann R. Newkirk II
• April 12, 2016

Obama Abandons Plans to Drill in the Atlantic Ocean

Oil and gas exploration off the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico will move forward.

• Robinson Meyer
• March 15, 2016

The Real Cause of the Flint Crisis

America’s infrastructure was once the envy of the world, but in an era of government-bashing, it has been allowed to crumble.

• Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
• March 7, 2016

The Supreme Court Didn't Block These Obama Climate Policies

Even without the Clean Power Plan, dozens of White House environmental regulations are still shifting energy use.

• Robinson Meyer
• February 18, 2016

Will a Reconfigured Supreme Court Help Obama's Clean-Power Plan Survive?

A sudden vacancy scrambles the prospects for the administration’s climate-change rules.

• Robinson Meyer
• February 14, 2016

Did the Supreme Court Doom the Paris Climate Change Deal?

The Clean Power Plan is in bad shape, but the planet might not be.

• Robinson Meyer
• February 12, 2016

The Supreme Court's Devastating Decision on Climate

The move raises the stakes of the presidential election for those concerned about global warming.

• Robinson Meyer
• February 10, 2016

Obama's $10 Oil-Tax Pipe Dream

The president is proposing a big per-barrel fee. It won’t be passed by this Congress, but what about the next?

• Russell Berman
• February 4, 2016

The Massive, Empty Federal Lands of the American West

The U.S. government owns half of the land in 11 western states—but almost no one lives there.

• Andrew McGill
• January 5, 2016

United States v. Volkswagen

The Justice Department is suing the automaker over illegal emissions-control software installed in thousands of diesel vehicles.

• Marina Koren
• January 4, 2016

San Francisco's Self-Defeating Housing Activists

Tech companies and workers are vilified while longtime homeowners who fight high-density growth continue to profit from rising rents and property values.

• Conor Friedersdorf
• December 29, 2015