Center for Food, Power, and Life
The Center for Food, Power, and Life aims to protect and expand freedom in the vital policy areas of agriculture, energy, and the environment, which we believe will enhance North Carolinians' lives by better access to food, power, and more of life's needs and wants.
Foreign Ownership of American Agriculture Continues to Grow
China held $2 billion worth of American farmland in 2020, up tenfold in just a decade.
Cooper’s Committee to Overhaul State’s Auto Industry
Let there be no doubt, this "Clean Transportation Plan" will come with a hefty price tag and a forcible overhaul of the state's auto industry.
Unmasking Putin’s Propaganda Machine
Some of the most sanctimonious and morally righteous environmental left groups have been conduits of Russia’s propaganda machine for years. As part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, Russia…
Biden’s Latest Blame Game for Gas Prices Fails
It's more important to them to assign blame elsewhere than to provide relief from skyrocketing prices.
Cooper’s Absurd Electric Vehicle Order
Cooper Tries to Order North Carolinians to Change How They Go Places
Gov. Cooper ordered 1.25 million electric vehicles (EVs) to be registered and for EVs to account for half of all sales in North Carolina by 2030. Cooper directed state agencies…
Cooper Tries to Change the Entire North Carolina Economy with an Order
On Jan. 7, Gov. Cooper issued an executive order demanding that everyone — from government officials to businesses to people in general — "take significant action to achieve" his goals…
Cooper Order Would Forcibly Transform NC Auto Industry
In a little-discussed executive order issued Jan. 7, Gov. Cooper imposed unrealistic electric vehicle sales quotas on the state's auto industry, among other draconian diktats.
California rooftop solar roiled by prospect of “deep cut to incentives”
As you can imagine, only a certain class of consumers can do this: the wealthy. The poor, especially renters, can't. They're stuck not only paying full retail price for their…
NBC reports on environmental dangers of mining nickel for electric cars
We have written for years about the hidden but manifold environmental dangers posed by electric vehicles. These dangers are important to remember as people like Pres. Joe Biden and Gov.…
Climate Agenda Features Inconvenient Facts, Including a Lack of Popular Support
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explores a recent proposal to focus climate change policies on developing countries. [I]f this argument were written more directly, it would be denounced as…
Climate Craziness Leads to a World Gone Mad
Editors at Issues and Insights take aim at climate alarmism. Each day the media are filled with “news” stories blaming various events and conditions on “climate change,” which are of…