The federal government spends billions replenishing beaches for the affluent. The bill will soon skyrocket thanks to climate change.
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Posted inJanuary/February 2015, Magazine
In the Jaws of Climate Change
To a hungry polar bear losing its natural habitat, humans are just meat.
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2014, Magazine
How the West Was Reinvented
Nudged by Bill Clinton, an economy based more on recreation than extraction is transforming the rural West.
Posted inMagazine
The Monthly Interview: Ted Nordhaus
A conversation with Ted Nordhaus, the head of a green think tank who thinks that environmentalism is dead, nuclear energy and gas are alive, and maybe the conservatives had it right all along.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Magazine, November/December 2012
How We Could Blow the Energy Boom
America’s vast new surplus of natural gas could lead to great prosperity and a cleaner environment. But if we don’t fix our decrepit, blackout -prone electric grid, we could wind up sitting in the dark.
Posted inEconomy, July/August 2012, Magazine
Rooftop Revenue
Government helps big corporations make billions off green energy. How about cutting the average family in on the deal?
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, May/June 2012
A Fish Story
How an angler and two government bureaucrats may have saved the Atlantic Ocean.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April 2012
Not a Drop to Drink
How water scarcity will soon be Asia’s defining crisis.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2012, Magazine
Boarish Behavior
Feral pigs are violent, dirty, and ugly, and they ravage every ecosystem they live in—still, who knew killing them could be such fun?
Posted inJanuary/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
The Environment
The end of the EPA as we know it.
