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.
What is the Current State of the Political Debate Over Climate Change?
Dr. Patrick Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the libertarian Cato Institute and author of the book Lukewarming, offers a current assessment of the political…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on questionable claims from the renewable energy industry about its “home-grown” nature. The Daily Journal highlights legislators’ concerns about the costs linked to…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on state government approval of a controversial solar energy project in Beaufort County. John Hood’s Daily Journal contends that Gov. Roy Cooper is…
Misleading poll questions to pressure GOP candidates into cronyism for renewable energy? Sounds familiar.
It's bad enough the polls are misleading. What worse it, it's obviously being done by people who know they have to mislead in order to gain political power for their…
Trump EPA ends ‘Sue and Settle’ scheme
The EPA is finally ending the scheme whereby the federal government sends millions of dollars to radical environmentalist outfits while they foist costly rules on us without going through the…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
North Carolina school officials were happy to announce recent gains in SAT scores and Advanced Placement participation. Terry Stoops looks beyond the headlines during the next edition of Carolina Journal…
At long last, EPA moves to repeal ‘Clean Power Plan’ rule
EPA's move to repeal the CPP would avert staggering costs on the economy, on business and industry, and on poor ratepayers. Meanwhile, all century long energy-based emissions have been falling…
Apple clean energy project faces environmental fine
Don Carrington details a setback for an Apple project devoted to clean energy. The N.C. Division of Environmental Quality has fined Apple Computer’s data center in Maiden more than $40,000…
A speed bump for solar
Avi Salzman and Bill Alpert devote the latest Barron’s cover story to the impact of Trump administration policies on the solar power industry. Cheap imported solar cells have fueled an…
Flow control: How one man’s trash is another man’s…cronyism
Among other things, Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of House Bill 56 stopped a measure that would prevent counties from unnecessarily hiking trash disposal costs on families and local businesses.
How can your ‘almost there’ industry STILL need several decades’ worth of tax credits?
Since at least the 1970s, renewable energy advocates have said their industry is just a few short years away from competing with traditional energy sources, so they need government support…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on a John Locke Foundation scholar’s critique of Gov Roy Cooper’s recent decision to join the U.S. Climate Alliance. Kristen Blair’s Daily Journal…