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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Parties in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit must present a new plan in the coming months to the judge overseeing the case. The judge accepts an outside consultant’s recommendations…
Bernie Sanders shows why you don’t shut down nuclear
A "phase out" of all nuclear power plants in America is a part of Sanders' climate plan. It's a colossally bad idea. For that matter, so is banning hydraulic fracking, and…
Hog Farm Odor Lawsuit: Bladen Journal quotes JLF’s Dr. van der Vaart
Recently, a panel of judges in Richmond, Virginia heard oral arguments in the case, Joyce McKiver, et. al. v. Murphy-Brown, LLC. As Alan Wooten explains in his recent Bladen Journal…
House Republicans and climate change legislation
Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner reports on U.S. House Republicans’ apparent embrace of a plan to address climate change. House Republicans have convinced their most conservative members to support…
The impact of Warren’s energy policies
David Bahnsen writes at National Review Online about the potential negative consequences of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign promises. Despite her claim to be running a campaign for middle-class America, Warren has…
Asking a key question about the coal-ash settlement agreement
It would excavate and remove 70 percent of the coal ash identified at those six facilities, leaving 33.8 million tons of coal ash in the ground out of 113.5 million…
Rolling back regulatory overreach involving soggy land
Noah Rothman of Commentary magazine considers the recent change to federal regulation of “waters.” This week, the administration “finalized a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands, and…
“50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions”
CEI lays them out in a recent post. It’s a long list, but here are a few highlights: “The time of famines is upon us and will be at its…
Coal ash amounts from the settlement agreement
How much coal ash is contained at each of the six facilities involved in the coal-ash cleanup settlement agreement between Gov. Roy Cooper’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), several “Community…
Manufacturers Alliance Shares JLF Brief on Coal Ash
This week, the North Carolina Manufacturers Alliance (NCMA) shared a summary of JLF’s Jon Sanders’ research brief on coal ash. The brief goes over how, in 2014, Gov. Roy Cooper…
Did Appalachian Voices not read the settlement agreement?
Despite whatever they might say, the signatory "Community Groups" deliberately chose to have you, your neighbors, the poor, the elderly, people living check to check, etc. pay for the additional…
The high cost of a fracking attack
Mark Mills of the Manhattan Institute tallies potential consequences of a ban on hydraulic fracturing. The extraction of oil and gas through the techniques of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing…