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.
Biden’s climate agenda and an ‘elephant in the room’
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner highlights a critical flaw in President Biden’s climate strategy. There’s a looming problem with President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. The administration is considering taxing…
Biden could face his version of the Solyndra scandal
Matthew Foldi writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a potential energy-related scandal for the Biden administration. Republican senators are working to make the electric battery company President Joe Biden…
“Lowest cost generation available”: legislators seek to help NC’s electricity consumers
NC's standard in law for electricity provision is least-cost, reliable electricity at the flip of a switch. State electricity policy, however, is too often directed by "stakeholders" whose desires clash…
Kerry’s climate goal swings toward the extreme
Charlotte Pence Bond writes for the Daily Wire about Biden climate czar John Kerry’s disturbing ideas involving carbon dioxide. At the virtual Leaders’ Climate Summit on Thursday, climate czar John…
Biden climate summit labeled ‘unserious’
Editors at National Review Online question President Biden’s latest step on climate change. President Joe Biden is convening a “virtual climate summit” — which is a very fancy thing to…
‘Green infrastructure’ supporters would make big green
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the self-interested motives of some backers of “green infrastructure” policies. Democratic lawmakers and expert witnesses pushing President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion “green…
Bill to save the planet would hurt the poor
Democratic state senator Wiley Nickel of Wake County is pushing a carbon tax. As Locke’s Brian Balfour notes: (emphasis is mine) The “carbon tax” bill is designed to punish the…
Biden’s choice: Cut emissions or boost jobs
Rob Crilly of the Washington Examiner highlights a critical choice for President Biden. When President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday, he will bring together 40 world…
Legislators consider a bill to protect electricity consumers
A bill before the General Assembly would restore the state's protection of North Carolina's top stakeholders in electricity policy: the consumers. Such protection is absolutely vital.
Will Biden effectively ban gas-powered cars?
Editors at Issues and Insights warn readers to beware new regulations from the Biden administration that could have drastic impacts on their driving habits. In the next couple of months,…
State carbon tax proposal exposes progressives’ cognitive dissonance
A bill sponsored by Sen. Wiley Nickel (D-Wake) would levy a tax on “any carbon-based fuel product sold, used, or entered into the State.” Fortunately, the bill isn’t expected to…
Solar industry’s ties to forced Chinese labor should concern us
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights inconvenient facts for solar energy advocates. An unlikely coalition of Republicans, Democrats, and labor leaders are concerned by the solar industry’s dependence…