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Energy
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.
Energy
Trump, Biden, and the Paris climate deal
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner explains the convoluted details of U.S. involvement with the Paris deal on climate change. No matter the result of the presidential election, one thing…
Energy
State sponsors climate resiliency art contest
Elections & Public Integrity
Biden attacks a ‘great American industry’
That’s the way National Review editor Rich Lowry describes the Democratic presidential nominee’s approach to fossil fuels. Joe Biden wants to take one of the great American success stories of…
Elections & Public Integrity
Biden energy policy would prove destructive
Editors at National Review Online pan the Democratic presidential nominee’s approach toward energy. Whoever’s job it is to tell Joe Biden what he thinks about oil is dropping the ball.…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Federal taxpayers cannot afford another bailout of state and federal governments. Joseph Coletti explains why during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Jon Guze highlights questions N.C. voters should…
Energy
Electric Cars: Bad for the Environment, Good for China
Electric cars are often praised in the media as beacons of environmentalism. However, the reality is less flattering. As JLF’s Dr. Don van der Vaart writes in his most recent…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Gov. Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan,” Part 4: Helping the Environment or Just Helping China?
PEVs would increase electricity use and actually exacerbate global warming to the extent GHGs are the cause. Cooper should instead focus on reducing the carbon intensity of our electricity grid…
Research Brief
Energy
Gov. Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan,” Part 3: Raising Prices and Polluting More?
Solar power requires the use of fossil fuels. Solar requires fossil fuel–fired combustion turbines to provide 79% of the load. To the extent manmade GHGs are impacting global warming, then,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Biden’s drilling ban would create major economic hole
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner highlights an industry report about a key energy proposal from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s pledge to block oil and gas drilling…
Energy
Cooper’s Flagrant Disregard of Green Nuclear
On September 1, JLF’s Dr. Don van der Vaart, former Secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, published a research brief examining the inception of Dem. Gov. Roy Cooper’s…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Gov. Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan,” Part 2: Why it excludes the cleanest, cheapest energy source
Nuclear energy is a clean (zero-emissions), cheap, and abundant energy source. But Gov. Cooper's "Clean Energy Plan" requires a straightforward, categorical rejection of nuclear power.
Energy
“US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor”
From the AP report: U.S. officials have for the first time approved a design for a small commercial nuclear reactor, and a Utah energy cooperative wants to build 12 of…