Energy
Fuel price is no reason to pick renewables over natural gas
For years, the John Locke Foundation’s Center for Food, Power, and Life has been warning of electricity price hikes in the wake of the 2021 passage of the Carbon Plan…
Environmental Defense Fund
United States environmental advocacy organization, headquartered in New York City
Liberty
Leftist Groups to Spend $500M for Local Media Influence
Eric Lendrum writes for American Greatness about a new spin campaign from left-of-center interest groups involving local media outlets. On Thursday, a group of 22 left-wing organizations announced the formation…
Liberty
A New Weapon in the War on Free Speech
In a recent post at Environmental Progress, Michael Shellenberger reports that: Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson has filed a lawsuit, demanding $10 million in damages, against the peer-reviewed scientific…
Elections & Public Integrity
So much for that opposition to ‘dark money’
One of the high prophets of “campaign finance reform,” Russ Feingold, is singing a new tune these days. Juliegrace Brufke reports for the Daily Caller. Former Sen. Russ Feingold failed…
Energy
Climate alarmists continue to get it wrong
Bjorn Lomborg reviews for the latest issue of Barron’s a book-length exposition of global warming alarmists’ key arguments. In a much-quoted paper of 2009, … Harvard University economist Martin Weitzman,…
Liberty
More evidence that out-of-control government is bad
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online reminds us of the dangers associated with an unchecked government. Social observers from Aristotle and Juvenal to James Madison and George…
Liberty
With hydraulic fracturing, well construction is the key
View in your browser. How safe is hydraulic fracturing for North Carolina? The process, which has been around since the 1940s, has an impeccable safety record. Over a million wells…
Liberty
I’d like to thank the EPA…
…For ordering up such a beautiful week so that this doesn’t happen: ….Greg Andeck of the Environmental Defense Fund says that leaving climate change unchecked could hurt the economy, particularly…
Regulation
A potential Baptist-bootlegger scenario with fracking
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek offers a good example of possible Baptist-bootlegger collusion that could lead to negative results for consumers. Fred Krupp of the Environmental Defense Fund discusses his efforts…
Liberty
State taxpayers pay Asheville restaurants to “go green”
View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the…
Liberty
Asheville area restaurants receive over a quarter of a million dollars in state taxpayer money to “go green”
Seventeen Asheville area restaurants using a $285,000 grant from a little known state government agency called the NC Green Business Fund to the Asheville Independent Restaurant association. I guess the…
Law & Public Safety
Appeals Court also rules in dispute linked to infamous Duke lacrosse case
Misleading DNA analysis in the infamous 2006 “Duke lacrosse rape case” cost Brian Meehan his job with DNA Security. This morning, a unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of…