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Environment
Exploring market-based solutions to the most pressing environmental issues facing North Carolina.
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Energy
How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 2
To meet the law’s requirements of being least-cost while maintaining grid reliability, the Utilities Commission’s initial “Carbon Plan” sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” until sufficient zero-emissions resources “are…
Research Brief
Energy
How Do the Carbon Plan’s Mandates Align with State Law? Part 1
By law, the Utilities Commission’s Carbon Plan must chart the “reasonable,” “least cost path” to emissions reductions with “least cost planning of generation” that would “maintain and improve upon the…
Research Brief
Energy
Power Generation During Blackouts Shows the Importance of Nuclear
Hourly grid data during the Christmas Eve blackouts showed wobbles in increased coal and natural gas generation, where three plants experienced equipment failures that kept those generation sources from contributing…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New-Normaling: How They Try to Get You to Accept Bad Policy Outcomes
Preface: The political class has drifted far from Lincoln’s vision of a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” — something that those words and the solemn…
Energy
FLASHBACK: Cooper Is Steering North Carolina Towards Electricity Blackouts
For years we have been warning about the dangers of replacing readily available, highly efficient, working power plants with highly expensive, extremely unreliable “renewable” sources — solar and wind —…
Energy
Reports Warn: Electric Grids Based on Renewables Don’t Need Bad Weather to Fail
It seems like just a few days ago that The News & Observer (N&O) was running banner headlines and filing multiple stories about how bad power outages are for people.…
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Energy
Mere Minutes: What ‘China Carbon Time’ Means for North Carolinians
In the name of “fighting climate change,” forcing Gov. Roy Cooper’s reductions in North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions would cost $141.7 billion to $162.3 billion, raise household electricity bills by well…
Research Brief
Energy
When Is ‘China Carbon Time’ for Your State?
The U.S. is leading the world in cutting CO2 emissions even as China keeps increasing theirs, but environmental activists, politicians, and renewable energy producers are pushing the states to adopt…
Energy
Biden Takes George III’s Imperial Approach to Regulation
Along with being one of the greatest documents for human liberty ever created, the Declaration of Independence provided an extensive list of how King George III had abused and usurped…
Environment
Reports: Anywhere on Earth Is Warming Faster Than Everywhere Else on Earth
A Google search of government and news sources since 2020 using such terms as “warming faster than rest of the world” produced this extensive list.
Research Brief
Environment
Sorry, California, Governor Cooper Has No Authority to Order a “Clean Trucks” Rule
Gov. Roy Cooper signed an “Memorandum of Understanding” with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to promote “zero-emissions” trucks and buses. Cooper’s recent executive order demands the drafting of an “Advanced Clean…
Research Brief
Energy
There’s Nothing “Market-Driven” About Cooper’s Trucking Order
Market decisions are voluntary and based in buyers and sellers exchanging their own property at prices they mutually agree upon — that is basic economics. Using executive orders, taxpayer money,…