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.
‘Stakeholder’: it doesn’t mean you get to stake a claim on other people’s business
DEQ lists 164 "stakeholders" to develop a "Clean Energy Plan." They identify "key stakeholders" as those "with a vested interest in clean energy." OK, so who cares for affordable, reliable,…
Climate change, hurricanes, and an overhyped link
Earth and atmospheric sciences professor Judith Curry urges National Review Online readers to be wary of claims involving climate change and hurricanes. In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian’s catastrophic impacts…
National Review labels Warren ‘daft’ on fracking
Editors at National Review Online are no fans of Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren‘s stance on fracking. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts promises that if she is elected president, she…
Democratic candidates’ fracking ban would be dangerous, asinine
A ban on fracking would be asinine. It would be self-destructive, devastating to the economy, a gut punch to the poor, and practically ineffective to do anything about climate change.…
CJ Reports: Insurance premiums could rise if Cooper keeps denying tax credits
This week, Carolina Journal’s Don Carrington reported on the continuing controversy surrounding North Carolina’s renewable energy tax credits. Carrington explains the situation: Before January 2016, developers of solar and other…
Why North Carolina’s Emissions Keep Falling
This week, JLF’s Jon Sanders reported on North Carolina’s decreasing emissions. According to Sanders, since 2000, total carbon dioxide emissions have decreased by 37.5%, total sulfur dioxide emissions have decreased…
Competitive Forces, Not Government, Are Behind NC’s Dramatic Fall in Emissions
I have good news. It’s news so ridiculously underreported that a recent Civitas poll found that 44 percent of North Carolinians somehow believe the environment in North Carolina is less…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal that the Cooper administration’s stance on renewable-energy tax credits could lead to higher N.C. life insurance premiums. John Hood’s Daily Journal urges lawmakers to…
Did You Know?
And that’s not the whole story of North Carolina’s energy progress, thanks to market forces. But it’s not just that North Carolina is seeing lower energy-based emissions. We’re doing this…
CJ Reports: Durham considers fee on plastic and paper bags at retail outlets
This week, Carolina Journal’s Brooke Conrad reported on a proposed bag ban in Durham. According to Conrad: In Durham, that city’s Environmental Advisory Board recently endorsed the idea of charging…
Property rights and the Amazon fires
Webb Beard explains at the Foundation for Economic Education’s website how property rights could help protect Amazon rainforest. According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), a unit of…
Charting North Carolina’s falling emissions this century (2019 update)
Here are the charts featuring North Carolina's energy-based emissions across the course of this century.