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.
Forget the Climate Strike. Do Something to Improve the Environment
Once again, a group of influential green groups and corporations promoted a global climate strike. Friday’s strike pushes young students to walk out of school and workers to leave work to protest…
You don’t need to be right, just self righteous
N.C.’s Top Stakeholders Are the People – Not Special Interests
This week, JLF’s Jon Sanders published a research brief on Gov. Roy Cooper’s Clean Energy Plan (CEP). Sanders writes: Governor Roy Cooper’s unserious “Clean Energy Plan” (CEP) identified 164 organizations…
Fracking or war?
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online offers a choice between controversy and conflict. Here is a news lead that begins with a bang and ends with a whimper: “The strike…
The biggest issue in electricity policy is the one thing they don’t talk about
Listen to politicians, lobbyists, talking heads, editorialists, and activists discuss ways to reform electricity policy in North Carolina. What don't you hear?
Don’t Mess with North Carolina’s Energy Policy If You Can’t Identify the Top Stakeholders
Who are the top “stakeholders” when it comes to getting electricity in North Carolina? This isn’t a trick question, no matter how baffling it may seem to the Cooper administration.…
REAL Ways to Improve the Environment
As the climate strikers began their public strike, the former secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, Don van der Vaart, published an opinion piece in Carolina Journal on…
Even those who buy into climate alarmism should support capitalism
Ronald Bailey explains at Reason.com why those who fear humanity’s impact on the climate ought to embrace capitalism. Climate Strike protests are supposed to bring attention to the science showing…
Big Families Are Better for the Environment
I can’t tell whether Lyman Stone is trolling here, but it makes sense:
National Review endorses plan to drop California auto waiver
Editors at National Review Online support the Trump administration’s approach to California auto emissions standards. The Trump administration is pushing ahead with a plan we endorsed previously. It will revoke…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Brooke Conrad reports for Carolina Journal Online on expert reaction to North Carolina’s new legislative election maps. Donald van der Vaart’s Daily Journal questions a planned “global climate strike.”
AOC believes Miami will disappear without Green New Deal
Paul Crookston of the Washington Free Beacon highlights an outlandish prediction from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said Wednesday that Miami has only a few years…