Environment
Exploring market-based solutions to the most pressing environmental issues facing North Carolina.
Electric Vehicles: The Wrong Answer to the Right Question
Governor Cooper’s Executive Order 80 claims to seek reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat global warming. A major component of the order is the promotion of electric vehicles…
Forget the Climate Strike. Do Something to Improve the Environment
Once again, a group of influential green groups and corporations promoted a global climate strike. Friday’s strike pushes young students to walk out of school and workers to leave work to protest…
Get out your coats: Reduce all CO2 emissions in the US, cool off by .25 degrees F
View in your browser. Allegedly the point of reducing carbon dioxide (often erroneously and sometimes maliciously referred to as just “carbon”) emissions is to keep the planet from overheating —…
How much global warming will be mitigated by the Obama/EPA CO2 restrictions?
View in your browser. Search high and low on the EPA web site, including their boastful “By the Numbers” document where all the alleged benefits of their new CO2 reduction…
New push for carbon dioxide tax — by conservative economists
View in your browser. 1. New push for carbon dioxide tax — by conservative economists This article from the Wall Street Journal reports on a recent push for a new…