In the News Want less government? Take action on climate change sooner rather than later
That prescription necessitates government intervention. Wary of government power, conservatives and libertarians are right to be skeptical. But as Josiah Neeley, the director of Energy Policy at the R Street Institute points out, even Milton Friedman noted that “there’s always a case for the government [to act] to some extent when what two people do affects a third party.”