If energy companies respond to the Interior Department's recently announced process for pursuing oil and gas exploration off the North Carolina coast, it is likely that residents or visitors will never see any rigs, pipelines, or depots, as these facilities are located either far offshore
Published: Thursday, January 18th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper and U.S Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke spoke regarding the Department of Interior's 5-year plan for offshore drilling in the Atlantic
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2018 @ 2:59 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Following an announcement late yesterday that the Trump Administration will exempt Florida from its plan to open Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters to offshore drilling, Governor Cooper today urged Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke to grant an exemption for North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 @ 9:13 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Cooper shared the following statement on the White House's announcement on offshore drilling
Published: Thursday, January 4th, 2018 @ 7:12 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper and the Department of Environmental Quality submitted formal comments yesterday to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to convey North Carolina’s opposition to oil and gas leasing for offshore drilling on North Carolina’s coast
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 11:59 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Cooper announced today that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality will submit formal comments opposing offshore seismic testing for oil drilling on North Carolina's coast
Published: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 @ 6:33 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The 2017 North Carolina Severe Weather Preparedness Week will occur the first full week of March, from March 5 through March 11, 2017
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2017 @ 12:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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An East Carolina University professor has volunteered his time and expertise with an international marine research collaborative dedicated to exploring the world's oceans
Published: Friday, January 13th, 2017 @ 10:19 pm
By: ECU News Services
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At the start of World War I, many young American men joined the Allied cause and the French Air Service as volunteers in the Lafayette Flying Corps...
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2016 @ 2:05 am
By: Russell Allen
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Obama Administration reversed its position and announced mid- and South Atlantic coastal states, including North Carolina, would not be eligible for offshore energy exploration
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 3:37 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Governor Pat McCrory, Chairman of the bipartisan Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition, issued the following statement on President Obama's Reversal on Offshore Energy
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 3:28 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The AP is reporting that, like the Locke Foundation, the Heartland Institute, and a number of other think tanks, private companies, and individual scientists, Koch Industries, headed by philanthropists and donors to free market causes David and Charles Koch, has received a letter demanding...
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the "Rights and Regulation Update" and in two separate reports I have offered an important emerging consensus in the public debate about hydraulic fracturing...
Published: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 3:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What are Kay Hagan's positions on energy issues? It depends on the audience and whether or not it's an election year.
Published: Friday, June 6th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: Christopher Maye
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We hear a lot of conversation these days about how America is losing (has already lost??) it's edge. We are no longer "exceptional". We even have a "ruler" who preaches those things and apologizes to foreign kings, satraps and the like for what he seems to view as our country's past transgressions.
Published: Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 @ 11:56 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Out of 24 schools Northside received three trophies for their events consisting of: two third place trophies and one second place trophy. Darren Harris and Desiree Horner came in second place in the Male Individual Armed event.
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 2:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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