Topic: Environmentalism

Picking Winners Before the Green Flag is Waved

“Is it possible that by placing bets on who will win the race early on, government officials actually end up fixing the race so the best car doesn’t always win?” ~ Sean Mulholland and Anthony Gill

The Collapse of the USSR Was One the Best Things that Happened to the Environment

“These proportions suggest that the collapse of the USSR was an incredibly cheap climate-change mitigation ‘policy.’ Indeed, the mitigation was itself a benefit to economic growth rather than a cost.” ~ Vincent Geloso

Emotions and Climate Change

“Conversations on campus are increasingly radical and will inevitably bleed into the mainstream dialogue. Be ready.” ~ Paul Schwennesen

Reduce, Reuse, and…Refuse?

“The last thing we want is to make our virtue signaling but inefficient recycling the modern equivalent of buying indulgences to atone for alleged environmental sins.” ~ Bruce Rottman

Achieving Ecological Reflexivity: The Limits of Deliberation and the Alternative of Free-Market-Environmentalism

Earth Day, Waste and Productive Complements

“The analysis of productive complements opens the door to understanding the incentives that private property rights and markets provide to reduce waste and pollution, which is so at odds with one of the most common defamations made against them.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Comment on Docket No. OP-1793,’Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions’

Regulatory Decentralization and Stringency: The Case of Comparative Minimum Wage and Renewable Energy Policies

ESG Investing: Today’s Virtue of Tomorrow’s Taboo?

“In the same way that society destroys statues erected to commemorate yesterday’s heroes, EGS investors run the risk of being judged harshly by future citizens who have the benefit of hindsight.” ~ Ramon P. DeGennaro

An All-Electric-Vehicle Industry? Really?

“Our future with electric vehicles will have some unexpected bumps in the road, too. We see some already — problems getting critical materials, attracting consumers, building a national charging network. But at least we know the federal government will be with us.” ~ Jane Shaw Stroup

Nature Unbound: Bureaucracy vs. the Environment

Green vs. Green: The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production