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.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the end of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline deal and Gov. Roy Cooper’s pattern of executive overreach. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why…
Democrats target tax code for Green New Deal goals
Ryan Ellis writes for the Washington Examiner about congressional Democrats’ latest efforts to secure their Green New Deal. Advocates of the “Green New Deal” … want to use the tax…
Governor Cooper’s pattern of obfuscation
Growing up in North Carolina, I was told to distrust those who were dishonest because “one fib leads to another.” Indeed, neurological research has reported physiological changes that occur when…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
The COVID-19 pandemic already has injected an unexpected element into North Carolina’s 2020 elections. Now the looting and riots linked to recent protests in the Tar Heel State could affect…
Freedom is the foundation for ensuring black lives matter
A message from our CEO Amy Cooke: Thomas Jefferson said, “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” All of us at the John Locke…
JLF’s Jon Sanders Discusses Energy Costs for Radio Show “Mornings with Joe Catenacci”
On Wednesday, May 20, JLF’s Director of Regulatory Studies, Jon Sanders, went on the radio with Joe Catenacci of Wilmington’s Big Talker 106.7 FM. Sanders and Catenacci discussed the reopening…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Thousands of N.C. public school students have been learning online in recent weeks. But many students have not participated at all in remote learning since COVID-19 shut down brick-and-mortar schools.…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online why North Carolina’s next phase of reopening might not help struggling restaurants and bars. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal explains how to protect N.C.…
Now more than ever, we need least-cost, reliable electricity
The post-COVID economy is going to be stark. People are going to be hurting. This is no time for expensive policy games that were barely tolerable even when times were…
High Energy Bills Cost More Than Dollars
North Carolina had held the title “second in solar” for a few years now, but that title does not come cheap. And as JLF’s Jon Sanders writes in his latest…
Electricity policy in the post-COVID economy
Energy poverty is a serious issue. Research shows that higher energy prices cost lives. The U.S. Energy Information Agency showed in 2018 that one in three families struggled to pay…
Natural gas fares well in tanking energy market
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner highlights one bright spot in the flailing energy sector. Natural gas is withstanding the coronavirus-fueled economic crash in a way that its closely associated…