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 executive orders have real-life job-killing impact
Salena Zito writes for the New York Post about the damage done by President Biden’s early executive orders. On the morning of Jan. 20, every room of the two-story Stroppel…
Two settlements later, guess who is stuck paying nearly all of coal-ash cleanup?
What changed between 2014 and now? Why is it no longer better to come down on the side of consumers?
Stein’s coal-ash settlement agreement means even higher rates for Duke customers
Prior to becoming governor, AG Roy Cooper spoke strongly against consumers being made to pay coal ash cleanup costs, but under his governorship and two settlement agreements later, consumers appear…
Bernie Sanders is Darn Near Giddy
It’s not the mittens memes that has self-described socialist and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in “as close to a good mood as he can get right now,” as reported by John…
The potential federal gas tax hike and why it will harm the poor
Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he is open to a federal gas tax hike. One of the arguments for hiking the federal gas tax is that it hasn’t been…
Battery storage is not what you think
You might think that battery storage would provide power for the time when the sun doesn’t shine. You might think battery storage would eliminate the need for combustion turbines. You…
Biden’s bad message to Canada about Keystone XL pipeline
Rich Lowry of National Review Online explains why new President Biden’s decision about a new pipeline marks a slap at Canada. Poor Justin Trudeau. The Canadian prime minister must have…
Keystone pipeline decision labeled foolish
Editors at National Review Online pan the new president’s approach to the Keystone XL Pipeline. Joe Biden has not yet been sworn in, but already, he is at war with…
Climate change and systemic racism
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the Biden climate team’s latest bizarre pronouncements. A pair of top incoming White House environmental aides has blamed “systemic racism” as a…
New session highlights second chance for previous ideas
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 Yesterday kicked off the new two-year…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
COVID-19 and the government shutdowns tied to it have created special challenges for entrepreneurs in North Carolina’s alcohol-related industries. John Trump reviews those challenges during the next edition of Carolina…
Senate Leader Phil Berger Announces Committee Appointments
A Jan. 7 news release from Sen. Leader Phil Berger’s office announces committee assignments. The General Assembly reconvenes Wednesday, Jan. 13. Be sure to join the John Locke Foundation’s government…