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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.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Yet Another Reason to Oppose Bag Bans
In “A Mixed Bag: The Hidden Time Costs of Regulating Consumer Behavior,” which was published this week by the University of Chicago Press, Rebecca L. C. Taylor finds: The nonmonetary costs…
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Energy production up and CO2 emissions down thanks to fracking
What can possibly unite these two items? Not only do they seem unrelated, but they also seem opposite. The first is from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It’s a graph…
Energy
How can the US lead the world in producing oil and gas AND reducing CO2 emissions?
Hasn't everything we've been told over the past two decades said that those were impossible? Weren't we under the impression that those things worked in opposition — that we'd have…
Energy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online that a recent court ruling leaves Republicans little flexibility when it comes to reforming Medicaid. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal highlights the latest evidence…
Energy
UK studies: Plug-in hybrids emit up to three times more CO2 than advertised
The case for EVs to curb climate emissions (let alone mitigate hurricanes) is too weak for Gov. Cooper to force. Worse, the trend of research makes them seem much more…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Trump’s fracking big deal
Daniel John Sobieski writes for the American Thinker about the impact of Trump administration energy policies. After three years of apocalyptic wailing and gnashing of environmentalist teeth over President Trump’s…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the N.C. Association of Educators’ increased interest in left-of-center, radical activism. John Hood’s Daily Journal notes the major role of fracked natural…
Energy
Don’t hold your breath for widespread use of electric vehicles
Abby Smith writes for the Washington Examiner about future prospects for electric vehicles. Consumers have been slow to buy electric cars, despite there being many more electrified options. The Sustainable…
Energy
“The anti-fracking movement is to geology as the anti-vaxx movement is to medicine.”
From this tweet: H/T: Matt Ridley
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Waste problems from wind and solar? Yes, it’s why we need proper decommissioning
This week Bloomberg Energy issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills. This problem is only going to get…
Energy
Wind Turbines “Graveyard” Causing a Stir: Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You
This week, our new CEO, Amy Oliver Cooke, shared a Bloomberg Green article titled “Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills.” The article gained a lot…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Innovators and Entrepreneurs To The Rescue
Fascinating story in Bloomberg News about the reality and problem of behemoth wind turbines that have reached the end of their working life. A wind turbine’s blades can be longer…