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.
CJ Reports: Durham considers fee on plastic and paper bags at retail outlets
This week, Carolina Journal’s Brooke Conrad reported on a proposed bag ban in Durham. According to Conrad: In Durham, that city’s Environmental Advisory Board recently endorsed the idea of charging…
Property rights and the Amazon fires
Webb Beard explains at the Foundation for Economic Education’s website how property rights could help protect Amazon rainforest. According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), a unit of…
Charting North Carolina’s falling emissions this century (2019 update)
Here are the charts featuring North Carolina's energy-based emissions across the course of this century.
Update: North Carolina energy emissions continue to fall, thanks to market forces
NC isn't just seeing falling energy-based emissions all century. We're doing this while continuing to be one of the nation's fastest-growth states in terms of population.
Climate alarmist loses defamation suit
Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker highlights an important court victory for free speech. Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph”…
Once people get an idea of how much a ‘carbon tax’ will cost, they oppose it
It is easy to tell a pollster you favor something when its costs and benefits are both hypothetical. It's a different thing altogether when the benefits are still speculative, while…
An Inconvenient Truth About the El Paso Shooter’s Manifesto
Michael Shellenberger posted an insightful piece today at Quillette: Democratic Presidential candidates and the New York Times rightly condemned the use of inflammatory words like “invasion” … to describe … people coming…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online about the state budget impasse’s impact on preparations for a new public high school financial literacy course. John Hood’s Daily Journal questions renewable…
CJ Reports: Is Cooper’s revenue department rejecting legitimate tax credits?
This week, Carolina Journal’s Don Carrington reported on the potential denial of as much as $500 million in renewable energy tax credits to investors. Carrington reports: For two decades, the…
Good for thee, not for me: Gas-guzzling D.C. edition
Todd Shepherd of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a questionable decision from the District of Columbia’s government. The District of Columbia municipal government is exploring an environmentalist lawsuit against oil…
JLF’s Don van der Vaart appointed to N.C. Environmental Management Commission
The John Locke Foundation’s Don van der Vaart has been appointed to the Environmental Management Commission. The Environmental Management Commission is a 15-member commission responsible for adopting rules for the…
Oil exports and energy independence
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online attempts to clear up some myths about American energy supplies. Is the United States really energy independent? Is Iran? As the two nations inch…