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.
Renewables Mandate Could Hurt the Environment and Your Wallet according to Dr. Don van der Vaart’s latest in The Federalist
Senior Fellow at the John Locke Foundation and former secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, Don van der Vaart, published a piece in The Federalist on the potentially negative…
Higher energy prices costs lives, and lower energy prices saves lives
A recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper shows that higher heating bills costs lives. Keeping energy prices low is doubly important because energy is a basic human need,…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Just as the University of North Carolina System is searching for a new president, the chairman of its governing board steps down. Rick Henderson assesses the significance of Harry Smith’s…
Electric Cars Can Have Worse “MPG” Than a Civic
North Carolina is on track to increase the number of electric vehicles on its roads. As a matter of fact, one of the key facets of Gov. Roy Cooper’s Clean…
Electric Vehicles: The Wrong Answer to the Right Question
Governor Cooper’s Executive Order 80 claims to seek reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat global warming. A major component of the order is the promotion of electric vehicles…
Climate Change Activists Protest Gov. Roy Cooper’s Green Energy Goals
The news has been flooded the past two weeks with stories of climate change activism. From the Global Climate Strike, to #ShutDownDC, to 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg’s comments at…
How electricity generation has changed in NC this century
Updating a chart from the 2017 Spotlight report on "The Market Forces Behind North Carolina’s Falling Emissions" with the most recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
CJ Reports: Indiana injunction could affect hemp legalization in North Carolina
This week, Carolina Journal’s Kari Travis reported on a new development in the laws surrounding hemp. Travis writes: You can’t criminalize smokable hemp, a federal judge has told Indiana lawmakers.…
No Green New Deal needed
Mark Whittington explains in the Washington Examiner why free markets have made the dubious Green New Deal unnecessary. What if climate change could be fixed without destroying the fossil fuel…
Trump administration wants California to clean up its act … er, air
Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon details the latest dispute between the Trump administration and the Golden State. The Trump administration has warned the state of California that it…
U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
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National Review editor urges readers to ignore young climate zealot
Rich Lowry of National Review Online explains why there’s no compelling reason to listen to a young, high-profile climate activist. Greta Thunberg needs to get a grip. The celebrity teen…