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Nuclear generation's lack of greenhouse gas emissions has brought new supporters for building nuclear power plants. There are currently fewer than 450 nuclear plants operating in the world today, roughly 100 of them in the United States.

The Wall Street Journal believes that creating ethanol from food crops and nonfood crops does not make economic sense.

A Pay-as-You-Throw program, or PAYT, provides a direct economic incentive to residents to reduce their waste. Under PAYT, cities would charge households for their waste collection based on the amount of waste they throw away.

The reduction of packaging by using less resources is practical economics and helps to better our environment. By reducing the use of plastics in the bottle manufacturing industry, major corporations are minimizing real or perceived risks to the consumer and helping their bottomline costs. l

The U.S. Congress's mandate to blend ethanol from corn into our gasoline supply has contributed to higher food costs. Producing ethanol from corn can be  energy-intensive and competes with our food supply. 

The withdrawal of AirFrance-KLM from negotiations on the sale of Alitalia means that the airline is living on borrowed time. The government has extended a €300 million emergency loan to keep the company afloat for a few more months. The question of what happens to one of the...

The counterfeiting of drugs -- which encompasses not only products that are completely fake, but also those that have been tampered with, contaminated, diluted, repackaged or mislabelled in a way that misrepresents the contents, dosage, origin or expiration date -- is a huge and growing problem. ...

More regulation is not synonymous with greater safety or enhanced benefits to society.  Often, the opposite is true because excessive regulation is a drag on innovation, diminishing competition and the number of products available to consumers, and inflating prices.  Instead of overreacting...

The combination of a huge regulatory burden plus the uncertainty and the vast costs related to product liability threatens innovation.  "Preemption" -- the presumption that drugmakers are not culpable for mishaps with their drugs, as long as they have fully satified federal regulators...

For the voluntary carbon offsets to be credible, an offset project should meet several criteria: the reductions should be real, measurable, verifiable, and "additional". Carbon trading in Europe for environmental projects in poorer nations are being questioned by the U.N. In the U.S. the Federal...