The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is among the nation's most important and powerful environmental laws. It is also a source of great conflict and controversy.

When champions of genetically modified crops come face to face with the organic lobby, any common goals often get drowned out.

It is the world's most successful public health insecticide, saving millions upon millions of lives from insect-borne diseases. Yet DDT remains the world's most misunderstood chemical.

The Endangered Species Act, passed by Congress in 1973, embodied a consensus that conserving endangered and threatened species is a critical public goal. Unfortunately, the implementation of the Act has strayed from this intent and has led to a failure to recover species, a significant expansion of federal power over...

Since the Great Depression, lobbying by farmers has proved particularly lucrative but has threatened to detach agricultural production from the objective of efficiently producing food for consumers. Today, farm policy consists of an array of subsidies, regulations, spending programs, and land-use restrictions which are widely blamed for the increased cost...

Contrary to popular belief, vastly expanding our use of ethanol fuel would increase food prices, greenhouse gas emissions, and local air and water pollution.

The authorsanalyze the best available economic data and conclude that American consumers--particularly the less affluent--have benefited tremendously from Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices."

Despite this support, renewable electricity has only a small share of the market, and ongoing developments in the market for competitive fuels—in particular, the prospect of declining prices for natural gas—make it likely that renewable electricity will continue to face severe constraints in terms of competitiveness for many years to come.