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.
Wall Street Journal: ‘State AGs for rent.’ What about NC?
This troubling new scheme gives privately funded environmental litigator/activists — who are unaccountable to the people — state police power, if the attorney general demonstrates environmental fealty to the special-interest…
Democrats and carbon taxes
Rep. Steve Scalise and Grover Norquist share with Washington Examiner readers concerns about Democrats’ future tax plans. Thanks to Republican reforms like the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Americans across…
Gov. Cooper apparently thinks we can mitigate hurricanes by incentivizing electric cars
If you're a manufacturer or lobbyist for electric vehicles, forget lottery fever; Gov. Cooper just flung the door wide open for government cronyism in your field. As they say in…
Cooper’s $58 million pipeline agreement under the microscope
JLF Senior Fellow Joe Coletti previews an upcoming legislative committee meeting that will begin looking at questions raised by an agreement between Gov. Roy Cooper and companies building the Atlantic…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Veto-proof Republican supermajorities are up for grabs in next week’s N.C. legislative elections. Becki Gray analyzes the potential impact on state policy during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the appointment of Dr. William Roper to serve as interim president of the UNC system. Joseph Coletti’s Daily Journal focuses on the…
North Carolina can’t affect the world climate
The idea that we could save the climate by cutting our emissions reductions just a mite faster than we already have been doing for two decades is daft.
Squinched up and about to barf: The face of climate purity
The UN says we have 12 years to cut CO2 emissions drastically or face climate catastrophe. That means we'll have to stop eating meat, too. I suspect they're amping up…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the Federalist Society’s forum this week for the three candidates seeking a seat on the N.C.Supreme Court. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal explains…
The rest of the story on an oft-repeated statistic
North Carolina is "second in solar" despite no obvious geographical distinctions from the other U.S. states that could explain it. Here is the story of an unsustainable energy source.
Another Long-Term Study Finds Fracking isn’t Contaminating Groundwater
From John Locke Foundation’s Jon Sanders: Yet another long-term university study of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has found no evidence that the process contaminates drinking water. This one is a four-year…
FIND IT HERE: JLF’s Latest Spotlight Report on GenX and it’s Threat to Southeastern NC
Last year, North Carolinians were alerted to the discharge of a relatively new, unregulated chemical compound called “GenX” as well as other similar compounds in the Cape Fear River. In…