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Defacing art will not solve climate change

A recent spate of flashy environmental “protests” has garnered international media coverage. These protests have included throwing mashed potatoes and soup at famous paintings and vegan activists dumping milk onto grocery store floors. Despite the support these activists have received, including from prominent media sources and financial support from oil tycoon families, the efficacy of these protests is questionable at best. These activists believe that any media...

Elijah Gullett
Opinion

With climate emissions, Americans are not the problem

Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from a column that first appeared in the American Institute for Economic Research. IMPOVERISHING US IS NOT THE SOLUTION The Biden administration’s term of choice for the ridiculously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is “historic.” One reason is its “climate change” promises. The monetary costs alone are enormous, which is strangely a point of...

Jon Sanders
Opinion

Empty buses don’t improve air quality

In nearly all North Carolina communities with bus systems, ridership is significantly lower than it was just a few years ago. In Greensboro, for example, there were 1.9 million passenger trips on city buses last year, down approximately 60% from the total in 2014. Over the same period, Winston-Salem buses experienced a comparable drop-off. In...

John Hood

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Hudson supports bill to block federal use of ‘social cost of carbon’

The federal government would be banned from using the so-called “social cost of carbon” in its rulemaking process, under a bill co-sponsored by a member of the N.C. congressional delegation. U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8th District, is one of six Republican House sponsors of the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act.

CJ Staff
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Pat Michaels (1950-2022) discusses ‘Climate Coup’ with Carolina Journal in 2011

Pat Michaels (1950-2022) discussed his book, “Climate Coup,” during a 2011 interview with Carolina Journal Radio. Michaels served as a Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia for 30 years, Virginia state climatologist for...

Mitch Kokai
Opinion

Environmental policy after EPA decision

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempts to regulate emissions and require states to shift to clean energy sources from existing power plants. Environmentalists fear this harm to their cause, but it should be seen as an opportunity. Despite what headlines suggest, this ruling does not prevent the EPA from regulating air pollutants. Instead,...

Elijah Gullett