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.
GOP-linked carbon tax group makes public push
Josh Siegel reports for the Washington Examiner on a Republican group that’s touting a new federal carbon tax. A Republican-backed group pushing for Congress to pass a federal carbon tax…
Democratic senator treats climate change like a religion
Cameron Cawthorne writes for the Washington Free Beacon about one U.S. senator’s questionable approach to climate change. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii) on Tuesday called for liberal activists to believe…
Could High Energy Prices Cost Lives?
This week, JLF’s Jon Sanders published a research brief on the importance of nuclear energy in our power grid and how continuing nuclear power generation potentially saves lives. Sanders explains…
Keeping Zero-Emissions, Low-Cost Nuclear Power Saves Lives
Here in North Carolina, in this century, per-capita carbon dioxide emissions from energy generation are down over 50 percent. We are witnessing falling emissions even as we are one of…
Happer to continue fight against climate alarmism
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner reports that William Happer’s departure from the Trump administration isn’t changing his tune about climate science. William Happer failed at the chance of his…
More Journalistic Malfeasance by the New York Times
In a recent twitter thread, Bjorn Lomborg exposes many deliberate distortions in a NYT report on sea level rise due to climate change: It’s a detailed expose, so read the…
Lights out for California
Rich Lowry of National Review Online highlights California’s pitiful response to recent wildfires. California is staying true to its reputation as the land of innovation — it is making blackouts,…
“Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle”
That’s the title of a new paper by Matthew J. Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida, and Marcella Veronesi that was published by National Bureau of Economic Research this month. Here’s the abstract: This paper…
New research: getting rid of nuclear power costs lives
Research shows this to be a stark choice: higher energy prices costs lives, and lower energy prices saves lives. Playing politics with energy prices plays with people's lives.
Favor for PURPA reform from the Left
Without reform, guess where things are particularly bad? North Carolina, where ratepayers face overpaying for electricity by roughly $1.25 billion.
A quick rebuttal to climate alarmism
Benjamin Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute details “The Trouble With ‘Renewables'” for the latest print edition of National Review. The whole article is worth a read, but I particularly…
Charlotte 6th easiest city to do business in North America
A new report examines how easy it is to do business in cities around North America. The start a business, register a property, get electricity, find and keep employees, pay…