John Locke Foundation experts continue to offer expert insight into issues surrounding global warming and climate change. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions have prompted lawmakers to push renewable energy sources such as wind power. Cape Fear Business News published this week a Carolina Beat column from Legal and Regulatory Policy Analyst Daren Bakst. It discusses the push from wind-power advocates to mount large-scale wind turbines in North Carolina’s mountains. Meanwhile, Paul Chesser of Climate Strategies Watch wrote in both The American Spectator and The Washington Examiner this week about efforts to secure a southern regional cap-and-trade scheme for carbon emissions.
