While domestic drilling in the short term may not contribute to lower gas prices later on, there may be surprising benefits for the environment.

Many environmentalists claim that natural resources are running out, species are being driven to extinction at alarming rates, and, in general, that the state of the environment is spiraling out of control--but are these claims true? Not according to Bjorn Lomborg, a professor of statistics and former member of Greenpeace....

This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the costs and benefits of regulating mercury emissions using the effects on IQ levels as a measure of benefits.

America's wireless communications industry has grown dramatically in recent years, as fierce competition and explosive technological change have improved service and driven down prices. These improvements have come about in a relatively low-key regulatory environment. But the very success of the industry, which has transformed service from a luxury to...

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America’s wireless communications industry has grown dramatically in the last decade, as market competition and technological change have improved service quality and driven down prices. These improvements have come about in a relatively low-key regulatory environment. But the maturing industry...

We all wish that there were money enough to solve all of the world’s pressing social and environmental problems: HIV and malaria kill tens of millions of people each year; eight hundred million people are malnourished or starving; billions lack proper sewerage; and by some accounts, climate change may threaten...

This volume investigates the potential performance of the Kyoto Protocol's international trading mechanisms in the presence of diverse types of domestic greenhouse policy instruments.

Global climate change policy has reached a stalemate. Europe, Japan, and other major countries have signed on to the Kyoto Protocol. However, the United States has refused to join, in part because China and other developing countries are not subject to the emissions limitations under Kyoto. As the call...