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.
Lights out for California
Rich Lowry of National Review Online highlights California’s pitiful response to recent wildfires. California is staying true to its reputation as the land of innovation — it is making blackouts,…
“Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle”
That’s the title of a new paper by Matthew J. Neidell, Shinsuke Uchida, and Marcella Veronesi that was published by National Bureau of Economic Research this month. Here’s the abstract: This paper…
New research: getting rid of nuclear power costs lives
Research shows this to be a stark choice: higher energy prices costs lives, and lower energy prices saves lives. Playing politics with energy prices plays with people's lives.
Favor for PURPA reform from the Left
Without reform, guess where things are particularly bad? North Carolina, where ratepayers face overpaying for electricity by roughly $1.25 billion.
A quick rebuttal to climate alarmism
Benjamin Zycher of the American Enterprise Institute details “The Trouble With ‘Renewables'” for the latest print edition of National Review. The whole article is worth a read, but I particularly…
Charlotte 6th easiest city to do business in North America
A new report examines how easy it is to do business in cities around North America. The start a business, register a property, get electricity, find and keep employees, pay…
Decrying ‘climate Stalinism’
Joel Kotkin writes for City Journal about climate alarmists’ disturbing tactics. The Left’s fixation on climate change is cloaked in scientism, deploying computer models to create the illusion of certainty.…
California’s burning should not be blamed on climate change
Bronson Stocking explains at TownHall.com why it’s wrong to blame climate change for recent California fires. Liberals are blaming California’s wildfires on “climate change.” Apparently, climate change now causes wildfires,…
In the Fayetteville Observer: JLF’s Mitch Kokai Urges NC Dept. of Revenue to Honor Its Word
The Fayetteville Observer republished an opinion piece by JLF’s Mitch Kokai on renewable energy tax credits. Kokai writes: “For roughly two decades, state law permitted some version of a 35%…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Brooke Conrad reports for Carolina Journal Online on experts’ assessments of the benefits tied to cleaning up North Carolina’s criminal code. John Hood’s Daily Journal reports on a coal-ash regulation…
Fund focuses on radical climate protests
John Fund of National Review Online highlights climate alarmists’ latest high-profile tactics. I have seen what may be the future of climate-change protest. It isn’t pretty, and be prepared because…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Brooke Conrad reports for Carolina Journal Online on the future of building on North Carolina’s barrier islands. The Daily Journal explains why the rule of law should dictate the outcome…