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.
Buffett and PURPA
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek explains why billionaire solar energy fan Warren Buffett and his firm Berkshire Hathaway are no fans of PURPA. Berkshire Hathaway Energy says it’s not…
Environmental regulators avoiding congressional limits on their power
Tim Pearce reports for the Daily Caller on one way in which federal environmental regulators sidestep congressional oversight. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established a practice in recent years…
Leak boosts climate alarmists
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller reports on a media leak designed to boost climate alarmists’ arguments. The New York Times obtained a copy of an unreleased “sweeping federal climate…
Al Gore’s carbon footprint detailed
Drew Johnson of the National Center for Public Policy Research investigates the environmental impact of former Vice President Al Gore‘s home. In February 2007, the day after his panicky global…
The answer is to remove energy subsidies altogether
Arguing against subsidies for traditional energy sources and for more subsidies for renewable energy sources is just another example of arguing "That cronyism is bad because it can't go to…
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Two N.C. State University researchers say their employer is silencing them because they question the long-term impact of solar energy projects. Dan Way highlights their story in a Carolina Journal…
New York state also dealing with the issue of wind turbines disrupting military radar
The New York legislature is also questioning the wisdom of placing wind turbines too close to military installations and radar.
JLF joins fight against ‘social cost’ of carbon, methane, nitrous oxide
The John Locke Foundation has signed a letter supporting the federal Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2017. THERA halts the use of the fatally flawed and arbitrary…
Targeting Obama’s ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule
John Siciliano of the Washington Examiner reports on the campaign to kill the Obama administration’s controversial “Waters of the United States” rule. The rule expanded the EPA’s jurisdiction over waterways…
The solar lobby wants to squelch any and all talk of costs. Why?
There is absolutely no excuse for NC State University, a seat of higher learning, to oppose educational efforts, silence its own researchers, and fight giving people complete information.
Climate alarmists oppose summer fun
Julie Kelly parses the latest pronouncements from the prophets of climate doom in a National Review Online column. The Merchants of Misery — a.k.a., climate scientists — are working overtime…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on two N.C. State researchers who say they’ve been silenced by the solar energy lobby. Rick Henderson’s Daily Journal explains why a special…