Opinion

Save NC’s endangered farmland from overbuilding solar facilities

The American Farmland Trust (AFT) ranked North Carolina second in the nation for farmland threatened from residential development. It’s a big concern. Agriculture is the state’s top industry, employing about one-fifth of the state’s workforce. According to North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, North Carolina has about 8.3 million acres of farmland. Per AFT estimates,...

Jon Sanders
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NC counties shouldn’t mandate EV infrastructure market doesn’t want

New technology is exciting, but politicians who flex their influence and power to force premature adoption do a disservice to their communities. As a New Hanover County commissioner, I write to caution my county — and all the other counties and municipalities in North Carolina — against imposing harmful electric vehicle (EV) mandates. In January,...

Dane Scalise
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Judges uphold five of seven targeted boards in Cooper v. Berger appointments fight

A unanimous three-judge panel has upheld five of seven newly constituted state boards Gov. Roy Cooper had targeted in a lawsuit. The Democratic governor had argued that all seven boards violated the state constitution because Republican lawmakers took away Cooper’s appointment powers.

CJ Staff
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NC, Iowa cases challenge federal agency’s actions ignoring Supreme Court

Property owners in North Carolina and Iowa are working with the Pacific Legal Foundation to challenge Army Corps of Engineers actions that appear to ignore US Supreme Court precedent. Federal court documents filed in both states argue that the Army Corps is relying on an interpretation of Clean Water Act rules “soundly rebuked” by the high court in the 2023 case Sackett v. EPA.

CJ Staff
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Cooper’s quiet climate collusion with UN

The left’s forced march into its aggressive green agenda has left devastation in its wake in states across the country, but that hasn’t stopped Gov. Roy Cooper from quietly colluding with the elite left to force the agenda North Carolinians.  Headlines tell the story that politicians and bureaucrats won’t. A Politico headline about California warns,...

Amy Cooke

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Judges reject injunction in Cooper v Berger appointments fight

A three-judge panel has denied Gov. Roy Cooper’s request for an injunction blocking recent actions from the state Environmental Management Commission. The panel made that unanimous decision Friday after a nearly three-hour hearing in a lawsuit pitting Cooper against Republican legislative leaders. The decision also dissolved a temporary restraining order against the EMC that had remained in effect for a month.

CJ Staff
Opinion

Green is God

“God is dead,” observed the title character of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in 1883. The notorious claim, often interpreted as a celebratory declaration, was not delivered as a boast. Rather, Nietzsche made his observation about a rapidly changing Western culture with a profound sense of foreboding. The fear arose from the...

Jeff Moore