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 criticism of solar energy output ratings. John Hood’s Daily Journal highlights the link between economic freedom and business development.
CJ reports: Latest Civitas Poll shows likely voters concerned about environment, education spending
Carolina Journal reports on the latest Civitas Poll results. Most North Carolina voters think the media has covered Robert Mueller’s investigation too much, but a majority also approve of Mueller’s…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on legislative reaction to the U.S. Department of Defense’s take on possible N.C. wind farms. Lindsay Marchello reports Civitas polling data on voters’…
The environment’s getting cleaner, but we’re still hectored into thinking it’s getting worse
Meanwhile, the U.S. quietly (with help from North Carolina) leads the world in emissions reductions. Why quietly? Good question.
WATCH: JLF’s Donald van der Vaart discusses renewable energy’s role in N.C.
Dr. Donald van der Vaart, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, discusses the role renewable energy plays in North Carolina. Van der Vaart offered these comments during the April 25, 2019,…
An economic critique of the Green New Deal
Benjamin Zycher analyzes the proposed Green New Deal for the American Enterprise Institute. The proposal wilts under even a small level of scrutiny. [N]otwithstanding the assertions from GND proponents that…
Child Warrior or Wounded Child?
Thanks to her “school strike for the climate,” a 15-year-old Swedish girl named Greta Thunberg has become an international celebrity and the object of effusive praise by intellectual, political, and religious…
Who needs electric vehicle tax credits?
It’s generally accepted that hybrids and fully electric vehicles make the gas tax regressive because buyers tend to have higher incomes and the cars use less gas. Tax incentives for…
Want to ‘save the earth’? Focus on fracking, nuclear power
Editors at the Washington Examiner explain why one idea associated with the Green New Deal is particularly ill-informed. [I]n the process of making all U.S. electrical generation carbon-neutral, the Green…
Earth Day fact: The US leads the world in cutting emissions
U.S. emissions are at their lowest level since 1992. Per-capita U.S. emissions haven’t been this low since 1950. Emissions have been falling all century in North Carolina, too.
German study: Electric vehicles aren’t zero-emission, they’re worse than conventional cars
Once again, we see governments forcing policies that produce the opposite results from what they're intended to produce, while markets independently outdo the governments' intended results in seeking greater appeals…
Hayward decries ‘climate cult’
Steven Hayward writes for the Power Line blog about irrational climate alarmists. I’m fond of referring to the climate campaigners as the “climatistas” because they remind me of the Sandinistas…