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.
Earth Day? What Earth Day? COVID-19 overshadows environmentalists’ spectacle
Henry Miller and Andrew Fillat write for Issues and Insights about the COVID-19 epidemic’s impact on an annual event for environmental propaganda. In recent years, however, Earth Day has devolved…
COVID-19 reaction bodes ill for doom-predicting computer models of all types
Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker explores one potential consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s bad news for those touting catastrophic computer models. We have learned the hard way that…
Bernie supporters want Biden to steer left on climate
Josh Siegel reports for the Washington Examiner on a pressure campaign involving presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. On paper, Joe Biden has the most aggressive plan to address climate…
Fred Singer Has Died
The great climate iconoclast was 95 when he passed away last week. He will be sorely missed. Here’s an excerpt from Princeton physicist Will Happer’s tribute: Fred Singer has fought…
Unlike climate change, COVID-19 is an actual existential threat
The COVID-19 pandemic has readjusted many of our priorities. The country is pulling together for a common goal: to “flatten the curve.” Many are putting their jobs, careers, education, and…
Plastic bags make comeback in the COVID-19 pandemic
Kyle Smith writes at National Review Online about the revival of an item despised by the environmental left. Single-use plastic bags are a miracle of modern technology. Cheap, light, convenient,…
Coronavirus highlights problem linked to ‘green’ shopping bags
John Tierney of City Journal writes about the negative impact of a popular “green” shopping technique. The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians…
A Leftist Environmentalist Reveals His True Colors
Sky News editor Ed Conway writes: [I]f you were a young, hardline environmentalist looking for the ultimate weapon against climate change, you could hardly design anything better than coronavirus. Unlike most…
Coronavirus: If Matt Ridley’s Worried, We Should All Be Worried
In a recent opinion piece called “Coronavirus is the wolf on the loose,”English science writer Matt Ridley begins by saying: In Aesop’s fable about the boy who cried “Wolf!”, the…
Virginia’s about to hammer its own people to pay $50 Billion more for electricity
Calling this thing is "an example for other states" is like calling Wile E. Coyote an example for other bird watchers and rock climbers. It's an example of what not…
SPN Interviews Locke Foundation CEO Amy Oliver Cooke
At the beginning of the year, the John Locke Foundation welcomed our new CEO, Amy Oliver Cooke. Recently, the State Policy Network (SPN) published a get-to-know-you interview with Cooke. Among…
Reductions in CO2? Thank Fracking
America’s fossil fuel production has been on the rise over the past decade. Simultaneously, the nation’s energy-related CO2 emissions have been on a significant decline. Many might ask “How can…