A recent executive order from President Trump could help low-income North Carolinians pay their energy bills. The Energy Independence Executive Order, issued March 28, would reverse the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. The plan set a national limit on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and required states to reduce those greenhouse gases from their...
In this age of cronyism and meet-the-new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss partisan turnstile D.C. politics, maybe it really does take an “outsider” executive to give up power voluntarily. To D.C. insiders and their likeminded media, the idea is unthinkable. They lack even the vocabulary to denounce it properly. Two days after Donald Trump won the election, Politico published an...
President-elect Donald Trump is likely to reshape the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and alter some of its most burdensome regulations, which will benefit North Carolina farmers, businesses, and utility ratepayers, state Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Donald van der Vaart says. Two of President Obama’s signature regulations, the Clean Power Plan, and Waters of the...
During his March 11 campaign stop in Raleigh, Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., warned of planetary devastation from climate change unless the world shifts from fossil fuel-based energy to renewable forms of power. Meanwhile, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy has said her agency would continue advancing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan — requiring...
Gov. Pat McCrory and a host of business leaders were quick to praise the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday blocking President Obama’s signature climate change program from moving forward until a trial in federal court is concluded. McCrory lauded the 5-4 decision that could spell legal doom for the administration’s Clean Power Plan, which...
A recent lead news article in the capital city’s main newspaper ignored facts to focus on unattributed alarmist claims.
WILMINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Rouzer, a Johnston County Republican, says federal rules and regulations “are just stifling this economy,” and the final Waters of the United States rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could be devastating for North Carolina.
RALEIGH — The federal government’s proposal to restrict carbon dioxide emissions from power plants across the country could boost North Carolina’s electricity prices by as much as 22 percent, according to some estimates. The environmental benefits would be almost nonexistent. That’s the assessment from the head of the newly renamed N.C. Division of Environmental Quality, who spoke Monday to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
The impact on climate of these costly regulations would be so tiny, so close to zero, that it is not worth mentioning.
