Energy
Advocating for making energy more affordable and reliable, Locke provides groundbreaking research and policy proposals that looks to halt the government’s destructive green energy transition.
Biden’s Baffling Approach to Pipeline Problems
Charles Cooke of National Review Online considers the president’s puzzling reaction to the Colonial pipeline shutdown. Sometimes I’m left unsure as to what progressives believe the government is for. In…
If Biden Can Support Keeping Nuclear Power Operating, Can Cooper?
There simply is no “nuclear generation replacement” that could “meet NC’s future baseload electric[ity] needs” without greatly increasing both electricity prices and energy emissions.
If Biden Can Support Keeping Nuclear Power Operating, Can Cooper?
With zero emissions, unrivaled reliability, and lowest costs, existing nuclear power checks all the boxes for what different people want from electricity. Losing nuclear power has been shown to increase…
Biden’s climate agenda and an ‘elephant in the room’
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner highlights a critical flaw in President Biden’s climate strategy. There’s a looming problem with President Joe Biden’s climate agenda. The administration is considering taxing…
Biden could face his version of the Solyndra scandal
Matthew Foldi writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a potential energy-related scandal for the Biden administration. Republican senators are working to make the electric battery company President Joe Biden…
“Lowest cost generation available”: legislators seek to help NC’s electricity consumers
NC's standard in law for electricity provision is least-cost, reliable electricity at the flip of a switch. State electricity policy, however, is too often directed by "stakeholders" whose desires clash…
Kerry’s climate goal swings toward the extreme
Charlotte Pence Bond writes for the Daily Wire about Biden climate czar John Kerry’s disturbing ideas involving carbon dioxide. At the virtual Leaders’ Climate Summit on Thursday, climate czar John…
Biden climate summit labeled ‘unserious’
Editors at National Review Online question President Biden’s latest step on climate change. President Joe Biden is convening a “virtual climate summit” — which is a very fancy thing to…
‘Green infrastructure’ supporters would make big green
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the self-interested motives of some backers of “green infrastructure” policies. Democratic lawmakers and expert witnesses pushing President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion “green…
Bill to save the planet would hurt the poor
Democratic state senator Wiley Nickel of Wake County is pushing a carbon tax. As Locke’s Brian Balfour notes: (emphasis is mine) The “carbon tax” bill is designed to punish the…
Biden’s choice: Cut emissions or boost jobs
Rob Crilly of the Washington Examiner highlights a critical choice for President Biden. When President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday, he will bring together 40 world…
Legislators consider a bill to protect electricity consumers
A bill before the General Assembly would restore the state's protection of North Carolina's top stakeholders in electricity policy: the consumers. Such protection is absolutely vital.