Scientists reported to have a perceived “anti-fracking bias” add to the growing consensus that fracking is not intrinsically dangerous.
Katherine Restrepo on why N.C. is right not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare; the public weighs in at fracking forums; Kay Hagan & Thom Tillis debate Obamacare; Paul Stam on why school choice helps all; Jane Shaw on colleges reaching out to dropouts
Rick Henderson on judicial appointments & fall elections; Gov. McCrory, Mark Martin & others on Martin's appointment; Gene Boyce on 14-year-old legal battle with Roy Cooper; Algenon Cash on economics of fracking; Jon Sanders on myths about fracking
Becki Gray on legislative session highlights; House members on coal ash clean-up plan; lawmakers on finding owners of unclaimed savings bonds; Robert Shibley on free-speech rights on N.C. college campuses; Terry Stoops on opportunity scholarships
RALEIGH — Roughly 99 percent of the fluid used in the hydraulic fracturing process consists of water and sand. Most of the rest of the chemicals used in fracking are found in common household products. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report highlights these and other facts about fracking’s chemical composition.
RALEIGH — How safe is fracking? Does it contaminate water? Use too much water? Use secret chemicals? As opponents of hydraulic fracturing continue to criticize the process, a new Policy Report turns to evidence to answer these and other common questions.
Factual investigations have debunked tales concocted by foes of hydraulic fracturing.
Becki Gray on oil exploration via fracking; Terry Stoops reacts to legislative comments about dropping Common Core; legislators discuss protecting the electric grid; John Staddon on pros & cons of British health care model; Roy Cordato on e-cigarette tax
Terry Stoops on Gov. McCrory's teacher pay plan; legislators debate how privilege taxes imposed by local governments; Charlie Helms on collecting N.C. taxes; Mark Cares on working in shale oil industry; Sarah Curry on possible regulation of wood stoves
Becki Gray recaps the legislative session; Rick Henderson reacts to legislative debate on fracking; Jon Sanders on economic impact of cronyism; Amelia Frahm on why nuclear literacy among kids is key; JLF's Sarah Curry recaps the new General Fund budget
RALEIGH — North Carolina lawmakers are ready to capitalize on what some are calling the “natural gas boom.” A bill lifting the state’s moratorium on fracking — a method for releasing natural gas that environmentalists feel is controversial — passed the state Senate by a landslide recently and is making its way through the House.
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