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“This gets us closer to deploy nuclear power when and where it is needed to give our nation’s warfighters the tools to win in battle,” Duffey said.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 @ 12:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors, including North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, are pressuring the nation’s largest regional electric grid operator to rein in rising electricity costs.
Published: Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 @ 6:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As western North Carolina continues to recover more than a year later from Hurricane Helene, Gov. Josh Stein’s office has released several announcements in recent days detailing funding for infrastructure repairs.
Published: Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 @ 10:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Holiday lights bring cheer and joy, until the electric bill arrives at the end of the month. However, Duke Energy, the largest energy company in North Carolina, offers tips to help its customers reduce their utility usage and minimize the impact on their monthly bills.
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2025 @ 4:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Trump administration is opening up seven additional lease areas for oil drilling in the Gulf of America.
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2025 @ 4:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today Governor Josh Stein signed Executive Order 23, establishing the North Carolina Energy Policy Task Force to strengthen the state’s electricity infrastructure and energy affordability as demand increases.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2025 @ 7:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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Trump recinded waivers allowing California to impose harsh emissions standards.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2025 @ 5:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Early in the morning of June 24, amid a blistering heat wave affecting most of the nation, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) granted a request from Duke Energy Carolinas by issuing an emergency order authorizing Duke to exceed environmental emissions levels if needed
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A coalition of organizations is urging Congress to terminate the subsidies associated with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the elements of the Green New Deal it codified in policy.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2025 @ 9:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Ford Motor Company revealed this week that it lost more than a hundred thousand dollars for every electric vehicle that it sold during the first quarter.
Published: Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 @ 2:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Trying to turn our oceans into sprawling, on-again/off-again electric stations is becoming even more prohibitively expensive.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 @ 1:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mercedes-Benz is scrapping its plans to only sell electric vehicles after 2030 as consumer demand for EVs remains lower than what automakers projected.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 @ 11:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Toyota, Kempower, and Epsilon Advanced Materials – all companies in clean energy industries – top the year’s $12.9 billion project list
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 @ 12:09 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Epsilon Advanced Materials (EAM), India’s leading battery materials company has announced a $650 million investment in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 1:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I recently wrote about “How the Budget Stops California from Setting North Carolina’s Transportation Policy.”
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 1:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, the North Carolina General Assembly overrode five bills that had been vetoed by Governor Roy Cooper. Since the legislature held its first override vote in March, there have been a total of 19 veto overrides this year.
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 2:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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They also show why the General Assembly was wise to put the least-cost and reliable guardrails into law
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 @ 9:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s no-more-stringent law forbids state environmental agencies from imposing stricter environmental regulations than required by the federal government
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state is one of America's top oil producers, but the state Democratic Party's platform could seek to change that
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 9:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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Gov. Roy Cooper has declared the week of Sept. 25 “Clean Energy Week.” Whether that indicates he will sign Senate Bill 678, “Clean Energy/Other Changes,” remains unclear.
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 7:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A solar energy company recently awarded $3 billion by the Biden administration has been accused of scamming elderly people, and Republican leaders in the House and Senate are now asking the Energy Department to provide more details about the deal.
Published: Thursday, December 28th, 2023 @ 9:57 pm
By: Daily Wire
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From December through mid-August, 60 large whales have washed ashore East Coast beaches, coinciding with the issuance of several federal permits for whale “harassment” as a consequence of offshore wind energy development activities
Published: Monday, December 25th, 2023 @ 3:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that North Carolina was selected as a partner in the EVeryone Charging Forward™ program, a $30-million, 10-year initiative of the Siemens Foundation.
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2023 @ 2:16 am
By: Governor's Office
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With a large load forecast and a need for reliable electricity provision, Dominion Energy also balks at closing traditional power plants
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Having access to the Mountain Valley Pipeline would reduce customer costs by $1.7 billion by 2038, and $2.6 billion by 2050."
Published: Friday, November 24th, 2023 @ 11:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has recently announced that two offshore wind sites located in Eastern North Carolina will not be leased due to objections from The Department of Defense.
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 7:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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So every two months, China adds more coal power than North Carolina can possibly retire
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 1:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Breaking Down Locke's Latest Policy Victory
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While states consider enormously expensive plans to rework their entire electricity systems to cut CO2 emissions, energy-based emissions are still increasing across most of the world, especially China
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 5:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Duke Energy Corporation has filed its update resource plan with the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC).
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 6:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Biden administration is planning to give up to $12.5 million in grant funding for equity-driven emissions reduction research.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 3:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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"With this kind of support at the federal level, it should be a wake-up call for regulatory reform to speed up the permitting process so we can build more nuclear," said SPN Energy Fellow, Amy Cooke.
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2023 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' hearing Thursday about the future of the Mountain Valley Pipeline included one reference to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 11:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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