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.
Carolina Journal: GenX concerns cloud possible expansion of solar facility
You’ve heard of GenX, but did you know this? Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports: The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that concerns about GenX are complicating the debate about a solar facility in eastern North Carolina. Roy Cordato’s Daily Journal explains that experts…
The Relationship Between Energy Independence & Foreign Policy
Trump administration official Dan Brouillette made the case at a Raleigh forum on Friday that America is on the verge of energy independence — and that has a direct relationship…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on emotional reaction to Wednesday’s planned teacher walkout. Dan Way reports a U.S. Energy Department’s recent comments in Raleigh that the United States…
Unlike all the other energy sources, natural gas isn’t a net subsidy-taker
The most heavily subsidized energy sources are renewables, especially if you consider it in terms of electricity generated per dollar of federal subsidy.
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on nuclear power backers’ push for classification as “clean” energy worthy of government subsidies. Kristen Blair’s Daily Journal ponders the role of virtual…
Today in Raleigh: Foreign Policy, Trade, and Energy in the Age of Trump
The John William Pope Foundation and the Jesse Helms Center are co-hosting a foreign policy symposium this Friday, May 11, 2018, from 12:00 – 9:00pm at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree…
EPA to reverse another Obama-era restriction
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller highlights another step from the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency that would reverse Obama-era regulatory overreach. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans on repealing…
Property rights in urban America
Gary Libecap has spent a career examining property rights and the environment—water, fisheries, land surveying, and mineral rights, among other topics. In his current working paper he argues that America’s…
Denver Post: Comparing Fossil Fuels To Tobacco is Folly
The debate over the role of fossil fuels in today’s world is following a path we’ve seen before. Some critics of fossil fuels — and some supporters of ‘renewable’ sources…
Who needs the Paris climate agreement?
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily explain why hubbub over U.S. involvement in the Paris climate agreement means little. When the U.S. announced last year it would withdraw from the job-killing…
Investor’s Business Daily: Media ignore as US cuts emissions faster than anyone else
Three major societal changes Americans desperately wanted in the 2000s have happened: American energy-independence, cheaper fuel prices, and lower energy emissions.