North Carolina Division of Air Quality

REVISED: So What’s the Ozone Story this Year?

View in your browser. For the last several years, from April to October, this newsletter has featured weekly reports on ozone (smog) levels in North Carolina. (For example, see the…

Clearing the air on automobile emissions inspections

View in your browser. Automobile emissions inspections have been in the news this week as the North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) held a public hearing over eliminating inspections…

With Gaston County suffering from a whopping 10.9 percent unemployment rate, environmental pressure groups oppose Gaston toll road because it may bring economic growth

View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…

Sloppy Science and Environmental Scaremongering

In his weekly newsletter today, Dr. Roy Cordato highlights two really interesting examples of highly exaggerated claims by the environmental establishment. The first regards the North Carolina Division of Air…

Sea Level Rise Prediction and NC’s Regulatory Reform Law

View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…

View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…

Don’t grill this Father’s Day (unless, of course, it’s vegetables)

View in your browser. 1. Don’t grill this Father’s Day (unless, of course, it’s vegetables) Last week the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center issued a press release titled…

Solar radiation responsible for warming?

View in your browser. 1. Solar radiation responsible for warming?   A new study from the procedures of the "Proceedings of the Royal Society" title: "Experimental Evidence for the role…

N.C. energy policy model ‘not credible’

RALEIGH – A model the Appalachian State University Energy Center used to project the economic impact of N.C. climate change policies has “serious flaws” that undermine its credibility. That’s the…

Lung Association Lies

The American Lie, I mean, Lung Association yesterday released its latest scare numbers on how bad the air is around the country, giving Mecklenburg County an F for ozone. Really?…

Ozone O-fer

Heat? Check. Humidity? Check. Sweat? Drip, drip, drip. Ozone? Not so much. Thus far this ozone season has seen zero Code Red readings from the nine area ozone monitors. They…

Code Orange? Not!

Today’s News and Obserever went out of its way to herald yesterday as the area’s first code orange alert day. What they didn’t mention is that while July 6 was…