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Friday Interview: Corporations and Free-Speech Rights

RALEIGH — Corporations aren’t people, but a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling focused on the circumstances under which corporations enjoy the same legal rights as individuals. In Citizens United v. FEC, the court upheld political free-speech rights for corporations, nonprofits, and labor unions. Daren Bakst, director of legal and regulatory studies for the John Locke Foundation, discussed the ruling with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff
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Commission Pushes $2B Transit Plan

RALEIGH — The Triangle’s two metropolitan planning organizations have joined forces to bring an ambitious mass-transit system to the region that could cost $2 billion, but critics say the new proposal is worse than a previous rail-transit plan that failed because of lack of federal commitment.

David N. Bass
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Pa. Group Guides NC CO2 Panel

RALEIGH — A nonprofit environmental advocacy group, which staunchly believes global warming must be reduced through reductions in human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, controls another nonprofit organization that advises a climate action panel started by the N.C. Division of Air Quality. The DAQ-created group, in turn, makes recommendations on carbon-dioxide reductions to the Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change.

Paul Chesser
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Air Quality Improving in NC and US

RALEIGH — Contrary to exaggerated claims by environmental extremists that air pollution is worsening, air-quality expert Joel Schwartz told three separate audiences in NC last week that conditions have improved nationwide and in their state. Using data culled from studies published by the Environmental Protection Agency, Schwartz demonstrated that pollution trends for all major cities in the United States are on a downward trajectory. He said the truth contradicts what the majority of Americans have shown they believe in various polls. “Americans think the air has gotten worse,” Schwartz said in Raleigh. “Of course, just the opposite is the case.”

Paul Chesser

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