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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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House Speaker Kevin McCarther (R-CA) blasted President Joe Biden’s energy policies as an “attack” on American energy that is empowering our enemies.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 7:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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RINO / Democrat NC energy policy is following European and German lead
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Steed
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Says wind and solar not reliable; this is a wake up call for North Carolina
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2023 @ 7:55 pm
By: John Steed
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Leaked memo shows that permits for oil drilling were rejected, despite knowing they could producer “greater energy security”
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Policymakers in the United States are focused on a renewable energy transition despite the geopolitical and economic risks that emerge from a lack of reliable and cheap power sources.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Officials estimate that potential rolling blackouts could cause mass death across the continent
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 12:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sam Brinton, the disgraced non-binary Biden administration nuclear energy official who was arrested for stealing women's luggage at airports, previously helped create a school policy that encourages hiding children's gender changes from parents.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 @ 6:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a “price gouging penalty” for oil companies this week as Golden State lawmakers assembled to deliberate energy policy.
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 9:29 am
By: Daily Wire
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"He has embraced the woke, or berserk wing, of the Democratic party."
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 2:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The American energy industry is being strangled by White House policy consumed by green energy
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper declares state of emergency as Duke Energy responds to potential power outages
Published: Monday, October 17th, 2022 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Chairman of the Energy Policy Council, Lt. Governor Robinson is pleased to announce the establishment of the Energy Innovation Committee. This committee will serve the state and work to inform the Energy Policy Council about new, and emerging energy technology.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 3:03 pm
By: ENC NOW
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On September 14, 2022, Locke CEO Amy Cooke testified before U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations regarding the importance of free and open debate in energy policy.
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 8:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As winter approaches, much of Europe considering potentially life-threatening energy restrictions
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 6:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Protests in the Netherlands and Sri Lanka Demonstrate the limits of people’s interest in climate change policy
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2022 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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even the left is figuring this out
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 8:04 am
By: John Steed
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Michael Shellenberger calls out Biden on climate crusade disaster
Published: Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 @ 8:18 am
By: John Steed
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Below is the presentation I gave the North Carolina Energy Policy Council on May 18, 2022.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 5:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said late on Friday that he supports increasing domestic oil and gas drilling to offset energy problems that the U.S. is facing due to policies from the Biden administration and the war in Europe.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 9:25 pm
By: Daily Wire
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blasts prime minister's energy policy
Published: Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Steed
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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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Gov. Roy Cooper pushes wind energy panacea via executive order, but Chairman of the N.C. Energy Policy Council Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson deems the move an overstep of authority that does not ‘follow the science'
Published: Friday, June 18th, 2021 @ 11:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Tristan Justice writes for the Federalist about one potential outcome of the recent Colonial Pipeline fiasco and a New Mexico oil problem.
Published: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When we think of Leftist energy policy, a lot of us think of federal policy — the Green New Deal and the Biden version of the Green New Deal.
Published: Thursday, April 8th, 2021 @ 2:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon highlights Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s energy and environmental policy priorities.
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2020 @ 4:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Duke Energy lobbyist said Gov. Roy Cooper’s senior policy adviser, Ken Eudy, wasn’t truthful when making statements to a legislative committee investigating the Cooper administration’s role in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and an associated $57.8 million discretionary fund.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 4:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Because of President Trump's energy policies the U.S. has achieved virtual energy independence – no more beholden to the Middle East
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 @ 5:52 pm
By: LifeZette
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State tax credits for solar energy projects made for bad public policy. That doesn’t excuse recent action from the N.C. Revenue Department that denies those credits to solar energy finance companies.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 3:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Who are the top "stakeholders" when it comes to getting electricity in North Carolina?
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 3:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Passage of House Bill 589 this year brought major changes to energy policy in North Carolina
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2018 @ 6:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently enacted North Carolina renewable energy regulations to control costs and help green energy flourish will be a model other states embrace. Or don't
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 5:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two prominent state lawmakers pushing to make North Carolina's energy policy more friendly to consumers say they will press vigorously for freezing or reducing state mandates to use more renewable energy when the General Assembly returns for the 2016 short session.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:40 pm
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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WRAL's Laura Leslie wrote about an Energy Forum held at the Legislature yesterday organized by opponents of renewable energy programs. (Translation from WRAL speak: opponents to taxpayer-funded renewable energy programs.) The central theme of Leslie's article seems to be the famous "Koch Brothers."
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The previous newsletter discussed in brief how the renewable energy lobby has, over decades, been promising politicians and voters some things they have yet to achieve. Those promises are that...
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine that you are the CEO of a company, and there are several different materials or technologies that you can use to produce your product. For example, it is not unusual that a product can be made using steel, aluminum, or plastic. Within those categories, it can be made using different...
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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New research from the Institute for Energy Research shows more than ever before how the Obama administration's approach to energy policy is fulfilling the president's 2008 vision of "necessarily skyrocket[ing]" electricity rates.
Published: Sunday, July 19th, 2015 @ 7:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two reports this week from the John Locke Foundation discuss the costly unintended consequences of state government mandates.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 10:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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