A review of the literature.

In this paper written for Environmental Progress and Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, Michael Shellenberger proposes that Section 230 liability protections be made contingent upon social media platforms allowing adult users to moderate their own legal content.

Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to Homeland Security Subcommittee for Oversights, Investigations, and Accountability

For a hearing on: "Censorship Laundering Part II: Preventing the Department of Homeland Security's Silencing of Dissent"

Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

By Krista L. Baughman

It’s a worry for the West’s economic development, never mind energy security and climate action. If solar is anything to go by, the great transition seems less based on data, than a mixture of blind faith and vested interests.

A Google survey of over 2,300 people conducted last year by Civilization Works, found that 53% of people surveyed in the U.S. agree with the false statement, “Climate change is making hurricanes more frequent”

Courage Award given to Diablo Canyon Workers

We should do more to address climate change but in a framework that prioritizes energy abundance, reliability, and security.

On behalf of RePlanet NL, an NGO dedicated to advocating science-based solutions to environmental and economic development challenges, and of the undersigned like-minded groups and individuals, we hereby offer for your information our critical review of the leaked draft of the Delegated Regulation Sustainable Finance Taxonomy.

This review highlights problematic elements of the proposal and provides recommendations to improve them. 

Germany is expected to increase its fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation in 2022, if its weather conditions and electricity demand are similar to 2021, a new analysis from Civilization Works (nee: Environmental Progress) finds. 

Solving that problem doesn't require that rich nations become poor — or that poor nations remain poor.

Drug overdoses are today the number one cause of accidental death in the United States as a result of America’s historic addiction and overdose epidemic.

A new study finds that, of the people released from jail before trial in San Francisco, half committed new crimes and 1 out of 6 committed a violent crime.

The policy interventions required to ensure friendly investment conditions for renewables, including the lowering of acceptable reserve margins or the counting of “average” contributions, even if reduced, from variable renewables, are interfering with grid resiliency.

The Senate can play a constructive role in maintaining the reliability, resiliency, affordability, as well as the diversity and sustainability, of our grid by taking policy action now to keep operating the nuclear plants that have been critical to preventing power outages in recent years.

Policymakers should explicitly reject policies that significantly raise food and energy prices, directly or indirectly. Republicans and Democrats alike should affirm their commitment to human flourishing and prosperity, both of which depend on cheap food and energy.