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.
Three Dead Whales in Three Days
From Corolla, North Carolina, to Virginia Beach, Virginia, three dead whales washed ashore in three days in early March. Investigations and studies from environmentalists, whale conservationists, and concerned citizens argued…
The Heavy Toll of Government Environmental Policies on American Farmers
A new report from the Buckeye Institute finds that environmental policies harm farm workers. In the push for environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality, governments around the world have implemented various…
Let’s Broaden North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox
Recognizing that overregulation is stifling innovation, a regulatory sandbox allows for an incubation period for new products and services under a guided relaxation of legal and regulatory stringencies. The General…
Report Finds Vast Disparity Between Computer Models’ Predictions of Climate Change and Actual Observations
Pres. Joe Biden, Gov. Roy Cooper, and other leaders and bureaucrats would force wrenching changes to how people power their homes, drive, eat, and more in order to stave off…
North Carolina Hog Farming Needs Regulatory Healing, Not Hollywood Squealing
On Monday, a piece I wrote was published by Fox News. The piece covers hog farming, “environmental racism,” and a recent documentary being pushed by Hollywood actors. Highlights: “While opponents…
How a Budget Provision Keeps the Cooper Administration from Creating a Tax out of Thin Air
The Biden administration seeks to fund extreme environmentalist initiatives at the state level, including cap and trade programs. Such programs amount to “an energy-rationing scheme that acts as an energy…
Buc-ee’s and EVs: How the Private and Public Sectors Differ in Meeting People’s Needs
While the Cooper and Biden administrations try to find more ways that government can install EV charging stations, in the private sector Buc-ee’s has announced it’s going to create 120…
How a Billionaire Seeks to Empower Small Farmers
A recent profile in the Colorado Sun documented the journey of farming advocate Stefan Soloviev, who has purchased over 400,000 acres of farmland in and around Colorado. While some may…
Duke’s Worrisome Text
Late afternoon on Thursday, January 4, customers of Duke Energy received a text message alerting them to expected high energy demand the next day and requesting they “take steps to…
How Cooper and Clean Energy Cronies Use Blackouts to Argue for More Blackouts
Amy O. Cooke, retired Locke CEO, wrote a piece yesterday in Carolina Journal discussing the strange take in response to the Christmas Eve 2022 blackouts offered by Gov. Roy Cooper…
Energy Rates in NC Going Up
Duke Energy's move to more "renewable" energy will take a bigger bite of your budget - with no benefit.
Discussing the Costs of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources
Electricity from existing power plants is cheapest, and state law lets the cost of building new power plants fall on electricity consumers through increases in their power bills. New solar…