Opinion
Just say no to the Biden – Buttigieg mileage tax scheme
North Carolina, per-capita, is one of the most rural states in the country and would be disproportionally impacted by a new mileage tax scheme.
Opinion
Fracking has reduced carbon emissions
We’ve been able to make the switch from coal to gas without burdening power customers because the fracking revolution made it economical to drill for and recover large amounts of natural gas.
News
Protesters aren’t satisfied with Cooper’s green energy goals
Gov. Roy Cooper hadn’t finished his opening remarks at the Climate Change Interagency Council meeting before noisy protesters decried his position on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. State officials joined Cooper on Friday, Sept. 27 at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh for an update on the climate council’s work. They discussed the...
Opinion
Forget the climate strike. Do something to improve the environment
Once again, a group of influential green groups and corporations are promoting a global climate strike. Today’s strike pushes young students to walk out of school and workers to leave work to protest the energy sources that keep us alive and thriving. Stunts like these may serve to raise awareness about the global climate, but...
News
N.C. governments seek to go 100 percent renewable; is it realistic?
The town of Hillsborough and Orange County have turned the holy grail of environmentalism into official public policy. They want to transform into 100 percent renewable energy-powered communities. But beyond the attention-grabbing headlines, and a 2050 deadline, details matter. Would sprawling, utility-scale solar power plants be built, and where would they go? Would homeowners be...
Podcast
Cooper pledges N.C. commitment to Paris climate deal
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 735: After President Trump announced plans to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper joined more than 1,000 public officials across the country in signing an open letter pledging continued support for the agreement. Rick Henderson, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, analyzes Cooper’s action...
News
Unusual alliance pushing energy bill through House
North Carolina electric ratepayers would save a projected $849 million on their power bills over the next 10 years under legislation that begins to peel away some of the most favorable state mandates for the renewable energy industry. House Bill 589 sailed through the Energy and Public Utilities and the Finance committees Tuesday. It will...
News
Scholars: Democrats’ ‘web of denial’ campaign threatens 1st Amendment
U.S. Senate Democrats are endangering constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and assembly in their attempts to coerce the John Locke Foundation and other free-market organizations to comply with climate change investigations, while threatening them with charges under statutes reserved for criminal racketeering, two constitutional experts say. “All they’re doing is doing what blowhards do, which...
Podcast
Judge: Election Reforms Will Be Enforced In Nov.
Rick Henderson on judge's election reform ruling; Lindalyn Kakadelis on concern over AP U.S. history class; Tom Apodaca on coal ash; Bartley Danielsen on environmental benefits of school choice; Roy Cordato on N.C. Aquarium's climate change alarmism
Opinion
Balance Needed on Coverage of Sea Level Rise
The costs of adjusting to purported increases in sea level have been left out of major news stories.
Opinion
A Supplicant’s Prayer to Earth
Only your divine intervention, Oh Green Goddess, could have broken my healthy tree so near the ground and propelled it, precisely aimed, at my bedroom.
Opinion
Flashback: Subsidies Don’t Alter Reality
No government should give special tax breaks or subsidies to oil and coal companies. Can we all get agreement on that?
