This year's Earth Day emphasized the need for "clean energy" sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass power. Environmentalists argue that this change is necessary primarily to confront global warming, but also to reduce pollution in general. The following are selected readings and presentations from Cato scholars about energy policy, environmental policy, and environmentalism.

The Best Energy Policy Is No Energy Policy (Commentary by Jerry Taylor, March 13, 2000)

EPA Funds Anti-Sprawl Politics with Tax Dollars (Commentary by Randal O'Toole,
February 25, 2000)

Do Environmental Regulations Increase Economic Efficiency? (Jane S. Shaw and Richard L. Stroup, Regulation Vol. 23, No. 1, 2000)

The Greens' Ear-ie Ads (Commentary by Steven J. Milloy, December 27, 1999)

Arctic Melts While Logic Fiddles (Commentary by Patrick J. Michaels, December 21, 1999)

Kyoto's Chilling Effects (Commentary by Patrick J. Michaels, December 11, 1999)

Measure Risk, Not Just Emissions (George M. Gray, Regulation Vol. 22, No. 4, 1999)

Smart Growth at the Federal Trough: EPA’s Financing of the Anti-Sprawl Movement (Cato Policy Analysis No. 361, by Peter Samuel and Randal O’Toole, November 24, 1999)

Clearing the Air (Commentary by Indur M. Goklany, November 23, 1999)

Energy Efficiency: No Silver Bullet for Global Warming (Cato Policy Analysis No. 356 by Jerry Taylor, October 20, 1999)

Carbon Dioxide: A Satanic Gas? (Congressional Testimony from Pat Michaels, October 6, 1999)

Managing Planet Earth; Adaptation and Cosmology (Curtis A. Pendergraft, The Cato Journal Vol. 19, No. 1, 1999)

Bootleggers and Baptists in Retrospect (Bruce Yandle, Regulation Vol. 22, No. 3, 1999)

The Increasing Sustainability of Conventional Energy (Cato Policy Analysis No. 341, by Robert L. Bradley Jr., April 22, 1999)

The Costs of Reducing Carbon Emissions: An Examination of Administration Forecasts (Briefing paper by Peter VanDoren, March 11, 1999)

Putting the Law Back into Environment Law (David Schoenbrod, Regulation Vol. 22, No. 1, 1999)

Regulation Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1998
Special Environmental Issue Features:

• Where the Boys Are: Sex Ratios and Environment
• Emissions Trading for Global Warming
• The Environmental Transition to Air Quality
• Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not "Green" (Cato Policy Analysis No. 280, by Robert L. Bradley Jr. August 27, 1997)

Regulation Magazine Vol. 19, no. 4, 1996
"Behind the Green Curtain" Environmental Issue Features:

• The Bankruptcy of Environmental Federalism by David Schoenbrod
• Green Politics and Dirty Profits by Jonathan Adler
• EPA’s Clean Air Report by Crandall, Steger, & RueterThe Cost of Antiterrorist Rhetoric by Robert Hahn
• The Bay Bridge Blunder by Stephen Shmanske

Beyond the Grazing Fee: An Agenda for Rangeland Reform (Cato Policy Analysis No. 234, by Karl Hess, Jr. and Jerry L. Holechek, July 13, 1995)

Time to End the Alaskan Oil Export Ban (Cato Policy Analysis No. 227, by Samuel A. Van Vactor, May 18, 1995)

Polluting Our Principles: Environmental Prosecutions and the Bill of Rights (Cato Policy Analysis No. 223, by Timothy Lynch, April 20, 1995)

Federal Ecosystem Management: A "Train Wreck" in the Making (Cato Policy Analysis No. 217, by Allan K. Fitzsimmons, October 26, 1994)

Energy Conservation and Efficiency: The Case against Coercion (Cato Policy Analysis No. 189, by Jerry Taylor, March 9, 1993)

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