state department providing science-based environmental stewardship in North Carolina
In 2019, in the name of “fighting climate change,” Gov. Roy Cooper put forth his “Clean Energy Plan,” seeking to commit the state to a “70% reduction in power sector…
A couple of years ago, I asked whether Gov. Roy Cooper could finally support nuclear power, since even Pres. Joe Biden was. Our existing nuclear power plants have pulled off…
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 —…
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…
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,…
Fishing communities in every coastal state have tried to alert the Biden administration to offshore wind energy's threat to their industry and marine habitats, biodiversity, and oceanography. The oceanic waters…
In a little-discussed executive order issued Jan. 7, Gov. Cooper imposed unrealistic electric vehicle sales quotas on the state's auto industry, among other draconian diktats.
North Carolina’s Clean Energy Plan, a proposal put together by the Department of Environmental Quality at the behest of Gov. Roy Cooper, calls for a 70% reduction of greenhouse gas…
North Carolina’s Clean Energy Plan, a proposal put together by the Department of Environmental Quality at the behest of Governor Roy Cooper, calls for a 70-percent reduction of greenhouse gas…
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on the N.C. Senate’s rejection of Gov. Roy Cooper’s nominee to lead the state Department of Environmental Quality. Ray Nothstine’s CJ Opinion contrasts…
Late Wednesday morning, N.C. Senate leadership announced this in a news release: If Gov. Cooper doesn’t withdraw his nominee to lead the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Dionne Delli-Gatti, the…
Prior to becoming governor, AG Roy Cooper spoke strongly against consumers being made to pay coal ash cleanup costs, but under his governorship and two settlement agreements later, consumers appear…