Recent news that General Motors is abandoning its $10 billion self-driving taxi initiative reminds us that some technological breakthroughs are still beyond our grasp. The freight rail industry faces the opposite problem: Tech can do more to save money and lives, but regulators have been ...
The pall that descended on the latest U.N. climate confab in the wake of Donald Trump’s election was justified. It’s a foretaste of things under an administration determined to part company with global environmentalists. Along with issuing the obligatory proclamations of impending ...
In a well-ordered laboratory in Owings Mills, a suburb of Baltimore, an engineer has been perfecting a device that might be called the missing link in renewable energy. Now, it is ready to begin its transformative role in electric generation, bringing electricity to the remotest places in ...
With Donald J. Trump coming to shake up Washington, he should focus on tax reform that makes the tax code simpler for typical Americans, removes cronyism and eliminates sneaky excise taxes. A flat-tax code that makes it easy for Americans to file taxes on a small postcard and ridding the tax ...
If there was a question of how risky heavy dependence on China for critical minerals is, it was dispelled with China’s plan to restrict the export of graphite, a key battery metal needed for everything from weapons production to electric cars and the transmission of solar and wind ...
Spirit Airlines is bankrupt, which should embarrass the administration, which blocked JetBlue from acquiring the company earlier this year in an attempt to preserve low fares and competition. In the short term, blocking the merger worked: JetBlue and the post-bankruptcy Spirit will continue ...