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
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on N.C. Senate committee discussion of a bill targeting safe disposal of spent solar energy panels. John Hood’s Daily Journal explores different definitions…
LISTEN HERE: JLF’s Donald van der Vaart testifies about assessing solar panels’ environmental impact
State senators are considering new rules for disposal of spent solar panels and other solar equipment in North Carolina. During an hourlong hearing on Senate Bill 568, they heard support…
CJ Reports: N.C. has issued more than $1 billion in renewable energy tax credits
Despite the fact that the North Carolina renewable energy investment tax credit program expired three years ago, North Carolina is still issuing over $1 billion in tax credits to companies…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that North Carolina has issued more than $1 billion in renewable energy tax credits. Becki Gray’s Daily Journal predicts that a new N.C.…
Cutting out carbon tax talk
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller documents conservative opposition to a proposed carbon tax. Seventy-five conservative groups signed a public letter to Congress opposing “any carbon tax” days after reports…
Climate change as source of every possible weather event
John Hinderaker of the Power Line blog notes climate alarmists’ willingness to attribute every possible weather-related peculiarity to climate change. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the fact…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
State senators emphasize state worker pay raises in their version of the next $23.9 billion state budget. Like their House counterparts, the Senate omitted any mention of Medicaid expansion. Joseph…
Case for electric cars labeled as ‘phony’
John Merline writes for Issues & Insights about the increased push for electric cars. How is it possible that the air is vastly cleaner? Because new cars are more efficient…
Trump, tariffs, and farmers
Editors at the Washington Examiner take aim at President Trump’s support for protectionist tariffs. “I appreciate the incredible bipartisan support that my administration has had on trade and trade policy,…
Democrats and sea sponges
Molly Prince of the Daily Caller reports on Democrats’ responses to a provocative statement from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. More than two-thirds of Democrats believe Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria…
Trump to jettison another relic of Obama’s EPA?
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller details a possible change for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Trump administration will overhaul how it analyzes the costs and benefits of environmental…
Solar and wind: The most power you can rely on getting is nothing
Strata Solar disclosed that their "maximum dependable capacity is 0 MW." So are all other solar and wind plants'. If 3,750 homes were exclusively reliant upon their power, they'd be…