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.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on the latest developments surrounding a solar energy facility linked to Gov. Roy Cooper’s family. John Hood’s Daily Journal urges redistricting reform that…
Virginians criticize solar project
Nic Rowan reports for the Washington Free Beacon on the latest objection to a large-scale solar energy facility. A proposed solar-panel facility near Culpeper, Va., has local residents and landowners…
Green groups don’t like Trump’s deregulation agenda
Robert Bradley writes for National Review Online about the environmental lobby’s response to recent Trump administration actions. The Interior Department just revised a series of Obama-era regulations governing offshore oil…
Energy inefficiency, illustrated
Strata Solar, in its application to build a solar farm on Gov. Roy Cooper's Nash County property, disclosed that "Solar is an intermittent energy source, and therefore the maximum dependable…
CJ Reports: House bill scraps proposed wind turbine moratorium
Senate Bill 377, also known as the “Military Base Protection Act,” recently received approval from the House Energy and Public Utilities Committee, according to a story in Carolina Journal by…
The numbers on Germany’s Energiewende are not good
Michael Shellenberger writes a compelling piece in Forbes about Germany's disastrous Energiewende results. They were, he argues, inevitable.
Hemp Regulations Ready to Relax
Hemp can be used to make a myriad of products such as lotions, clothing, rope, particleboard – the list goes on. Hemp, which differs from marijuana, has been removed from…
Becki Gray On “After Spin”: What Do We Do With Toxic Materials In Solar Panels?
“This is an impending crisis. This could be the next coal ash pollution problem.” Becki Gray recently made this comment on NC SPIN’s online series “After SPIN.” The potential crisis…
JLF’s Donald van der Vaart Comments to Southern Farm Network on Controversial NC Livestock Regulations
Thursday, June 20, JLF Senior Fellow and former Secretary for the N. C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Dr. Donald van der Vaart was featured on Southern Farm Network’s website…
Can higher property taxes in Orange County save the planet?
Could Orange County do anything to influence the world's climate, with or without resorting to higher taxes? Do the math; the answer is a clear no. But they can make…
The latest rebranding of ‘global warming’
Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker highlights the latest attempt to excite people about global warming threats. Apparently not enough people are convinced that we have only 12 years left…
‘Low-cost’ solar subsidized to the tune of over a billion dollars
Carolina Journal reported that NC went over the $1 billion mark in renewable energy investment tax credits for solar. Here's a tip: something that doesn't cost you much more as consumers…