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.
EPA vs. NYT
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller details the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to push back against recent New York Times reporting. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing back…
Zane supports the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and for good reason
Gov. Roy Cooper has been quietly trying to stall the project for months. This suggests he wishes to please his environmental constituency but knows the issue wouldn't sit well with…
“Yeesh. This requires government money?”
Last week, I got an email from a colleague that read, “Yeesh. This requires government money?” and a link to the page on Wake County’s website about Commercial Waste Reduction…
California’s housing crisis offers lessons to NC
“The great American single-family home problem” is an excellent piece today from the New York Times. It looks at the housing crisis in California, but it has lessons for all…
Let’s not avoid reviewing North Carolina’s exorbitant avoided-cost rates
While House Bill 589 brought major changes to energy policy in North Carolina, it did not do anything at all about North Carolina's exorbitant avoided-cost rates. Electricity consumers need those…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
The N.C. Medicaid budget appears headed toward reaching budget goals for a fourth straight year, and the program continues its move toward managed care. Dan Way provides a state Medicaid…
Daily Caller tells van der Vaart’s story
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller interviews Donald van der Vaart about his pending retirement from the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality. A scientist who’s worked at North Carolina’s environmental…
OPEC still struggling with the fracks of life
OPEC is stuck. They can't undercut American shale oil without harming themselves too much, too. And the more they limit supply, the better the market gets for their American competitors.
Shocker! Obama EPA likely violated federal law
Chris White of the Daily Caller details the latest evidence of malfeasance within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Obama. Former President Barack Obama’s EPA used a social…
All electric cargo ship being put to good use
And the headline reads… China’s first all-electric zero-emissions cargo ship is going to be used to transport coal The vessel, designed for inland waterway transport, will have a pilot shipping…
Re: Those ‘zero-emissions’ electric cars, aren’t
If, as Jon Sanders quotes in a recent post, “Larger electric vehicles can have higher lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than smaller conventional vehicles,” maybe a carbon tax would be more neutral…
MIT research: Those ‘zero-emissions’ electric cars, aren’t
Another study, this one from MIT, finds that electric vehicles can have greater lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions than some regular cars with internal-combustion engines. It's an object lesson for regulators.