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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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Twenty-two state attorneys general, led by Tennessee’s Jonathan Skrmetti, are warning financial services companies that they may be violating antitrust and consumer protection laws by engaging in a climate activist alliance aimed at achieving net zero carbon emissions.
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 @ 6:23 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Environmental Protection Agency released new carbon emissions standards for power plants that burn coal and natural gas, a move which some energy experts and lawmakers caution will decrease power reliability and artificially increase electricity costs for households.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 11:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation unveiled its Clean Transportation Plan Wednesday. They say it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance “environmental justice,” and create good-paying jobs tied to clean transportation.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 1:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The belief that North Carolina’s electricity-based CO2 emissions are still going up is wrong; they’ve fallen by 46.1 percent since 2005
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 6:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Deep Decarbonization Pathways Analysis highlights significant opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deploy clean energy solutions across the state
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 8:49 pm
By: Governor's Office
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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 available and can replace at scale what gas contributes to the system”
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 reliability of the grid”
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 7:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) released its long-awaited Carbon Plan, which aims to significantly reduce carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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 over a thousand dollars per year, and risk capacity shortfalls and rolling blackou
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 8:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, an ardent proponent of reducing carbon emissions, has taken taxpayer-funded private jets rather than commercial planes at least 18 times since he was inaugurated into office, a new report says.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 4:00 am
By: Daily Wire
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Ministers in the European Union reached a provisional agreement on Thursday to completely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions on roads by 2035.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2022 @ 10:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a sweeping executive order that directs the state’s Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to take a number of major actions to mandate increased use of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) among public and private medium-and-heavy duty (MHD) vehicles.
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2022 @ 2:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Order will accelerate economic development and job creation in the quickly growing zero-emission vehicle sector, expand access to cleaner and more affordable vehicles and advance the state’s climate and environmental justice goals
Published: Sunday, October 30th, 2022 @ 9:07 am
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina has been cutting CO2 emissions this whole century without costly offshore wind energy being forced on electricity consumers
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 1:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of Gov. Cooper’s reasons for seeking to build 8 GW of offshore wind near our beaches is to fight climate change by reducing North Carolina’s energy emissions
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 7:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in West Virginia v. The Environmental Protection Agency that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the constitutional authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 10:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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"China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined."
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 7:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Media outlets are finally calling out the hypocrisy of the United Nations’ climate conference, but not for the obvious reasons like the amount of carbon emissions produced by world leaders using individual private jets to fly around the world to attend.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 12:24 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A new study released today by the John Locke Foundation spells out just how superior nuclear and natural gas are in achieving carbon emission reduction goals for the state.
Published: Thursday, August 5th, 2021 @ 12:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the governor continues to tout an energy policy insistent on wind and solar, lawmakers leverage growth in natural gas and nuclear to meet future demand and lower emissions in a new energy proposal.
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 2:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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China — the world’s top producer of carbon emissions — is shirking climate goals to prioritize economic growth.
Published: Saturday, June 26th, 2021 @ 3:15 am
By: Daily Wire
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Goldman Sachs announced on Thursday that it is setting a new goal to reach a carbon-emission level of net-zero by the year 2030.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 11:13 am
By: Daily Wire
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Here in North Carolina, in this century, per-capita carbon dioxide emissions from energy generation are down over 50 percent. We are witnessing falling emissions even as we are one of the nation's fastest-growth states.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 10:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Duke Energy touts the fact that its total carbon emissions are down 31 percent from their peak in 2005. It hopes to reach a cumulative 40 percent reduction by 2030.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 12:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Trump is deeply unpopular. According to RealClearPolitics, his favorability ratings now stand at just 41 percent - near-historic lows.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2019 @ 3:15 am
By: Daily Wire
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It should be pretty clear that carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon are not the same things
Published: Wednesday, October 10th, 2018 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolinians with ideas about how to use $92 million from a court settlement to improve North Carolina's air quality are encouraged to share their ideas as the State of North Carolina develops its plan
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017 @ 5:50 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Motor vehicle "biofuels" like ethanol made from corn and soybeans may cause more carbon emissions than gasoline, based on a new study from John DeCicco, a professor and researcher at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, challenging claims by environmentalists that vehicles using biofuels are
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 @ 11:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Patrick McHenry, North Carolina’s Representative from the 10th District in the U.S. House, credits a bill he introduced with causing the Environmental Protection Agency to back off plans to penalize racecar owners when they modify the emissions systems on their former street vehicles.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 5:20 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Reducing carbon emissions (and thereby preventing catastrophic global warming) has always been one of President Obama's primary goals. In his 2008 victory speech he declared, "Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that ... this was the moment when the rise of...
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 3:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis talked Obamacare, energy policy, the federal budget, and the Export-Import Bank during a meeting with Americans for Prosperity activists during a luncheon Monday at the Langtree Plantation in Mooresville
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Watts Up With That blog reports that the no-global-warming trend now stands at 17 years, 11 months. This is in spite of the fact that carbon dioxide emissions and atmospheric concentrations have continued to increase throughout this period.
Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 @ 5:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those who want to place government-mandated limits on carbon dioxide (often erroneously and sometimes maliciously referred to as just "carbon") emissions claim that their goal is to keep the planet from overheating — that is, to prevent global warming.
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Division of Air Quality announced recently that mercury emissions in North Carolina are down by 70 percent.
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2012 @ 1:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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