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Friday Interview: Clean Smokestacks Benefits Questioned

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s centerpiece air quality regulation is touted as a success. But a recent report concluded that the 2002 Clean Smokestacks Bill would cost much more than projected and that there’s really no evidence of its benefits for ozone levels or any other air quality measure. Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, discussed the topic with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff
News

Costs High, Benefits Unclear from N.C. Clean Smokestacks Bill

RALEIGH — North Carolina's centerpiece air-quality regulation is expected to cost electric customers more than $3.2 billion, far more than supporters ever projected. Meanwhile, the state has offered no proof that the measure has produced any air-quality improvements, according to a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.

CJ Staff
News

JLF: AG’s Experts’ Data Misleading

RALEIGH – Forcing the Tennessee Valley Authority to reduce emissions from its coal-fired power plants would create far more costs than benefits, according to a new John Locke Foundation Policy Report. That finding directly contradicts “expert” opinions N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper cited when filing a lawsuit against the TVA in 2006.

CJ Staff
Opinion

The Magical Means to Keep the Kingdom Clean

Streets clean enough to eat off of? Not quite, but close. Trashcans are strategically placed, but no more so than in an ordinary city. Hundreds of thousands of people travel the streets of Disney World, generating tons of trash daily. But why no litter, no food debris, no castaway diapers, on these city streets?

Dr. Karen Y. Palasek

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