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.
SPN Interviews Locke Foundation CEO Amy Oliver Cooke
At the beginning of the year, the John Locke Foundation welcomed our new CEO, Amy Oliver Cooke. Recently, the State Policy Network (SPN) published a get-to-know-you interview with Cooke. Among…
Reductions in CO2? Thank Fracking
America’s fossil fuel production has been on the rise over the past decade. Simultaneously, the nation’s energy-related CO2 emissions have been on a significant decline. Many might ask “How can…
Yet Another Reason to Oppose Bag Bans
In “A Mixed Bag: The Hidden Time Costs of Regulating Consumer Behavior,” which was published this week by the University of Chicago Press, Rebecca L. C. Taylor finds: The nonmonetary costs…
Energy production up and CO2 emissions down thanks to fracking
What can possibly unite these two items? Not only do they seem unrelated, but they also seem opposite. The first is from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It’s a graph…
How can the US lead the world in producing oil and gas AND reducing CO2 emissions?
Hasn't everything we've been told over the past two decades said that those were impossible? Weren't we under the impression that those things worked in opposition — that we'd have…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that a recent court ruling leaves Republicans little flexibility when it comes to reforming Medicaid. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal highlights the latest evidence…
UK studies: Plug-in hybrids emit up to three times more CO2 than advertised
The case for EVs to curb climate emissions (let alone mitigate hurricanes) is too weak for Gov. Cooper to force. Worse, the trend of research makes them seem much more…
Trump’s fracking big deal
Daniel John Sobieski writes for the American Thinker about the impact of Trump administration energy policies. After three years of apocalyptic wailing and gnashing of environmentalist teeth over President Trump’s…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the N.C. Association of Educators’ increased interest in left-of-center, radical activism. John Hood’s Daily Journal notes the major role of fracked natural…
Don’t hold your breath for widespread use of electric vehicles
Abby Smith writes for the Washington Examiner about future prospects for electric vehicles. Consumers have been slow to buy electric cars, despite there being many more electrified options. The Sustainable…
“The anti-fracking movement is to geology as the anti-vaxx movement is to medicine.”
From this tweet: H/T: Matt Ridley
Waste problems from wind and solar? Yes, it’s why we need proper decommissioning
This week Bloomberg Energy issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills. This problem is only going to get…