Cooper's office and state offices receive grants for funding staff climate positions.
Gov. Roy Cooper announced the appointment of Peter Ledford to take over as his Clean Energy Director. Ledford previously worked for the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association. Ledford replaces Dionne Delli-Gatti, who left for another position. The clean energy director role was initially created for Delli-Gatti, who first was Cooper’s appointee to lead the Department of Environmental...
Are offshore wind farms a job creating investment that makes North Carolina’s energy portfolio more environmentally friendly? That is debatable, but, more important, who gets to make the call one way or another? Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson doesn’t think it should be the left up to one partisan politician, and so, when Gov. Roy Cooper...
To the extent voters wanted a check on Trump, they’ve already gotten it with a Democratic U.S. House, so our 2019 special congressional elections will play out in a very different context.
As the specifics — and many of the absurd objectives — of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal have come to light, the common refrain from Democrats who support it is that the plan is “aspirational.” In other words, they believe that the world Ocasio-Cortez envisions is somehow ideal. It is the world we all...
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