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.
Wind Turbines “Graveyard” Causing a Stir: Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You
This week, our new CEO, Amy Oliver Cooke, shared a Bloomberg Green article titled “Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills.” The article gained a lot…
Innovators and Entrepreneurs To The Rescue
Fascinating story in Bloomberg News about the reality and problem of behemoth wind turbines that have reached the end of their working life. A wind turbine’s blades can be longer…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Parties in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit must present a new plan in the coming months to the judge overseeing the case. The judge accepts an outside consultant’s recommendations…
Bernie Sanders shows why you don’t shut down nuclear
A "phase out" of all nuclear power plants in America is a part of Sanders' climate plan. It's a colossally bad idea. For that matter, so is banning hydraulic fracking, and…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online about concerns linked to N.C. farm bankruptcies. John Hood’s Daily Journal argues that a Bernie Sanders presidential nomination would hurt N.C. Democrats.
Hog Farm Odor Lawsuit: Bladen Journal quotes JLF’s Dr. van der Vaart
Recently, a panel of judges in Richmond, Virginia heard oral arguments in the case, Joyce McKiver, et. al. v. Murphy-Brown, LLC. As Alan Wooten explains in his recent Bladen Journal…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Brooke Conrad reports for Carolina Journal Online that N.C. hemp farmers face uncertainty about the impact of new federal regulations. The Daily Journal explains how two recent court cases highlight…
House Republicans and climate change legislation
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner reports on U.S. House Republicans’ apparent embrace of a plan to address climate change. House Republicans have convinced their most conservative members to support…
The impact of Warren’s energy policies
David Bahnsen writes at National Review Online about the potential negative consequences of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign promises. Despite her claim to be running a campaign for middle-class America, Warren has…
Asking a key question about the coal-ash settlement agreement
It would excavate and remove 70 percent of the coal ash identified at those six facilities, leaving 33.8 million tons of coal ash in the ground out of 113.5 million…
Rolling back regulatory overreach involving soggy land
Noah Rothman of Commentary magazine considers the recent change to federal regulation of “waters.” This week, the administration “finalized a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands, and…
“50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions”
CEI lays them out in a recent post. It’s a long list, but here are a few highlights: “The time of famines is upon us and will be at its…