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.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the legislative committee that will look into concerns surrounding a $58 million Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why…
Want to think 100 percent renewable energy would work? Then don’t do the math
Even doing the math in terms of land use required is enough to show how unworkable the idea would be. And that's not even getting into the question of electricity…
JLF’s Donald van der Vaart highlights Russian infiltration of environmental groups for Spectrum News’ “Capital Tonight”
Dr. Donald van der Vaart, John Locke Foundation senior fellow, shares his concerns about the Russian government using American environmental groups as proxies in an attempt to resist natural gas…
California and OPEC oil
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller takes a closer look at America’s “greenest” state. There’s a growing call for California Gov. Jerry Brown to stop issuing oil and natural gas…
Ten fracking years
Seth Whitehead devotes a Washington Examiner column to a review of hydraulic fracturing‘s benefits. It has been 10 years since the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies reversed…
Global warming and the antithesis of reasoned debate
Wesley Smith writes at National Review Online about global warming enthusiasts’ latest campaign to shut down debate on the topic. … [I]t is a huge advocacy mistake for global-warming alarmists…
Carolina Journal reports: EPA confirms GenX-related compounds used in solar panels
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports on the EPA’s research into the effects of GenX, a compound classified as a PFAS chemical, that is found in the Teflon film that covers…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirms that controversial GenX is used in solar panel components. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why North…
California fudged the numbers to force rooftop solar on people
Steve Sexton, assistant professor of public policy and economics at Duke University, explains in The Wall Street Journal how California regulators used bad numbers to force a very bad policy on…
National Review editors welcome demise of Clean Power Plan
Editors at National Review Online explain why they’re happy to see the pending departure of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan is headed for the crematorium. Good…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Amid all the talk about Russian collusion, few people have paid much attention to possible links between the Russian government and environmental groups trying to influence American energy policy. Donald…
Van der Vaart for The Hill: To protect the environment, Trump should investigate Russian collusion
John Locke Foundation senior fellow, Don van Der Vaart, was featured in The Hill writing that Trump should investigate Russian meddling in U.S. energy policy. Just this year, the House…