Environment

Sean Reagan The debate over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge resurfaced last week when the Obama administration announced new restrictions on Alaska's vast, oil-rich landscape. The Interior Department is placing 30,000 square miles of ANWR under a drilling ban, and the president is asking Congress to designate the reserve...

Paul Kuek We often complain about government and how it makes farming more difficult. But the situation could be much worse. Take Argentina, for example. The country’s producers were some of our biggest competitors just seven years ago.[1] In 2005, Argentine farmers produced more than 3.1 million tons of …

Martin Tillier I would bet that most people in the developed world are already familiar with the essence of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” For those who aren’t, it’s a technique used to extract oil and gas from previously inaccessible underground shale (rock formations). Fracking has had a major impact on the energy industry …

Martin Tarpev* More and more people are concerned about the conditions for people with disabilities in Bulgaria and around the world. This is good news, because the problems in this direction are many and serious. In general, people, especially in Bulgaria, have a slightly strange attitude towards their fellow citizens with disabilities, which is also reflected …

More and more people are concerned about the conditions for people with disabilities in Bulgaria and around the world. This is good news, because the problems in this direction are many and serious. In general, people, especially in Bulgaria, have a slightly strange attitude towards their fellow citizens with disabilities, which is also reflected in the state ...

A quick stroll down the central streets of Portugal's two largest cities - Lisbon and Porto - is enough to reveal a serious problem with the Iberian country's real estate market. Half a dozen empty buildings litter the landscape of Lisbon's equivalent of the Champs-Elysees, Avenida da Liberdade - up to ...

Cities are where we can witness many of the problems that arise from poorly defined or poorly enforced property rights – most notably in the form of numerous negative externalities. The topic includes the often-discussed issue of road ownership (for example), but here we will …

For years, economists have been warning that the model of supporting renewable energy sources is ineffective. Subsidies have a high opportunity cost and an energy bubble is inflating. Industry and households are paying more for electricity. Data for Spain and Germany show that the criticism is justified and the green fairy tale is coming to an end. And where …