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No one is paying much attention, but Washington is building up a vast new multitrillion-dollar welfare class: corporate America. Deep inside President Joe Biden's budget...

Eager to make use of their narrow, but still potentially powerful, majorities in the House and Senate, congressional Democrats are pursuing an assortment of legislative options aimed at tightening the federal government’s grip on health care. 

By Duggan Flanakin Oil giant ExxonMobil’s 12-member board of directors reportedly has two new members who are climate activists backed by investor “Engine 1.” Under the...

By James M. Hohman President Biden released his plan to fix American infrastructure by spending trillions. The federal government has an important role to play in infrastructure, but it...

Despite a state mandate requiring 100 percent of Hawai’i’s electricity come from renewables by 2045, many Hawai’ian environmental activists are fighting proposed onshore and offshore industrial wind projects.

President Joe Biden’s new tax proposal contains provisions that would end common business tax credits for fossil fuel companies, which the Biden administration refers to as subsidies. The tax proposal would also provide additional extended federal support for select renewable energy technologies.

A proposal in the Washington Senate, the Climate Commitment Act, would create a cap-and-trade scheme designed to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions in the state to “net zero” by 2050. It would make everything more expensive.

In anticipation of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, a two-day global gathering of more than 40 world leaders, President Joe Biden declared that...

China, India, and even African and other Asian nations are building coal-fired power plants and developing coal resources much faster than the U.S. can shut its own plants down. The great master plan to save the planet via a worldwide ban on fossil fuels is being systematically undermined by the hungry.

The government should not prop up any energy source, and should instead allow competitive markets to meet America’s energy needs. However well intentioned, tax subsidies look more like corporate welfare for politically connected industries, and much less effective at spurring a dominant, world-class energy sector.