Soon-to-be Utah senator Mike Lee is already shaking things up on Capitol Hill by requesting public, recorded voting for earmark legislation.

This event will discuss who should set the rules for geoengineering, What should those rules permit or forbid, and how should they be enforced.

For more than twenty years, policymakers have struggled to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to stop global climate change. Congress is likely to enact federal climate legislation in 2009, but many scientists fear that emissions reductions may not occur quickly enough to prevent significant warming. Some scientists...

A now-irrelevant provision of the Voting Rights Act may soon be no more.

The consequences of global warming are hard to predict, but geoengineering might well be the only feasible solution if they prove to be serious.

While the media has focused on the rise of the Tea Party movement and the success of conservative insurgents in GOP primaries, there is a quiet insurgency taking place under the radar of more moderate Republicans for whom fiscal discipline is not a top priority.

The Committee sees no good reason for the SEC to intensify the regulation of short selling. Short sales play an important role in our stock markets, allowing investors to express legitimate concerns about accounting irregularities and other reasons for the overvaluation of individual firms.

Recent corporate environmentalism has been driven by economics, as companies seek financial savings.