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.
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
More than 135,000 N.C. students get their education through homeschooling. Another 101,000 attend private schools. Terry Stoops analyzes the significance of those numbers for the next edition of Carolina Journal…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on the state treasurer’s goal of saving $300 million a year for the State Health Plan. Jon Sanders’ Daily Journal dissects misleading arguments…
Don’t tell the N&O, but there are questions worth asking about the Amazon Wind Farm
Carolina Journal reporting discusses issues surrounding the Amazon Wind Farm that other media prefer to ignore.
Carolina Journal Reports: Navy Study Says No More Wind Turbines at Amazon site
Carolina Journal’s Don Carrington provides this update on his ongoing look at the Amazon wind farm: A new study from the U.S. Navy says expanding the Amazon Wind Farm site…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on a U.S. Navy study that says the Amazon Wind Farm should add no more turbines. Andy Taylor’s Daily Journal lists the most…
Who needs Paris?
The Paris climate accord, that is. Apparently, the United States is doing just fine without it. Hunter Lovell of the Washington Free Beacon explains. The United States in 2017 experienced…
Carolina Journal: Some NC solar panels have GenX
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal today about GenX use in solar panels. State policies have heavily incentivized and promoted solar energy facilities without even requiring reclamation bonding for the sites.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on policymakers’ questions surrounding potential contaminants in solar panels. John Hood’s Daily Journal uses baseball (and soccer) to describe different approaches to targeted…
Puerto Rico offers valuable lesson about renewable energy and natural disasters
John Siciliano of the Washington Examiner highlights an important finding about energy sources in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico’s power plants that use coal, oil, and natural gas are operating at…
We’ll Always Have…Lower Emissions without Paris
On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate accord. The response from media, Democrats, and leftists worldwide was as it…
Don’t look now, but U.S. emissions are at their lowest level since 1992
The June 2018 data release from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. are now at their lowest level since 1992. Also, emissions per…
Carolina Journal tallies the ongoing cost of renewable energy investment tax credits
Reminder: the "moneyed interests" in the energy policy debate are often on the side of renewables, given the generous subsidies and cronyism available.