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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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