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....

The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics​—​the Chicago-based Heartland Institute​—​turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.

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

In a new AEI book, Claude E. Barfield addresses a broad range of issues critical to the survival of the World Trade Organization.

Does the campaign against plastic bags make environmental sense?

Since the beginning of the climate change story more than 20 years ago, it has been hard to sort out whether the IPCC represents the “best” science, or merely the findings most compatible with the politically driven climate policy agenda. Both sets of Climategate emails have lifted the lid on the insides of the process, and it isn’t pretty.

Let"s talk about fiscal policy, or what passes for fiscal policy in the "Alice in Wonderland" dream world--or perhaps the nightmare world--that Congress is now in.

Speakers at a June 11 AEI conference considered the accelerating growth of advocacy-oriented nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in liberal democracies.