Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who faces the end of his political career, has decided to go out in a blaze of glory. Mr. Kan dramatically announced last month that Japan should end the country's reliance on nuclear power for electricity generation.

Funding alternative energy may end up being a poor use of federal dollars if local utilities regulators continue to run a short-sighted, politically motivated, counterproductive strategy.

Perhaps it is time for a revenue-neutral 50 cent per gallon tax on gasoline that would encourage energy conservation and promote the development of alternate energy sources.

Congress should apply to climate change the market-based solution that it successfully applied to acid rain nearly twenty years ago.

The current financial crisis will force Obama to put his long-term agenda on the back burner.

Central planners in the United States trying to promote green industry will fare no better at creating jobs or stimulating the economy than they did in Europe.

Contrary to some rhetoric, climate change cannot be solved by decree; there are revolutionary--albeit controversial--ways to address the problem.