The Ecomodernist

The Ecomodernist

California's Hidden Gas Tax Is Due for Reform
With the gradual re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz, gas prices have finally started falling.
 • Dan Blaustein-Rejto and Lauren Teixeira
Regulating in the Dark
The Data Void Behind Clean Water Act §401
 • Marc Levitt and Elizabeth McCarthy
It's Time for the World Bank to Scrap Its Climate Finance Targets
The diversion of development dollars to climate mitigation over the past decade hollowed out aid programs for no gain
 • Vijaya Ramachandran and Ted Nordhaus
The CAPEX Challenge Is Key to Industrial Competitiveness
Want critical minerals and reindustrialization? Offer low-cost loans
 • Seaver Wang, Ryan Alimento, and Matt Hellig
A Defense of Utility Deregulation
In Response to BTI’s “Stealth Deregulation” Argument
 • Breakthrough Institute
You Can’t Defend Industrial Food Without Defending Industrial Meat
A Review of Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg’s Feed the People
 • Alex Smith
Rich World, Poor World
RCP 8.5, IPAT, and Climate Impacts Reconsidered
 • Ted Nordhaus
Building Nuclear Reactors the Way Ford Builds Trucks
Making the DOE Reactor Pilot Program Work
 • Adam Stein and Spencer Toohill
Caught Between Hormuz and a (Chinese) Hard Place
Nuclear Energy Is Japan’s Only Way Out
 • Ted Nordhaus

May 2026

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