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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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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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As tariffs settle in, John Deere, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of heavy farm equipment, continues to suffer financial losses due to tariff costs.
Published: Sunday, September 7th, 2025 @ 9:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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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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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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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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Jon Sanders, director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation, assesses Dr. Mandy Cohen’s record as head of North Carolina’s top health agency.
Published: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 11:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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When government decides to buy something, cost increases are sure to follow. One reason is that people are generally less cost-conscious when they’re spending other people’s money. Government decision-makers are people spending revenues collected from other people.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2017, the population of North Atlantic Right Whales has declined by 30 percent
Published: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 @ 10:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A headline of “BREAKING: Computer Model Produces Results As Designed” would not sound quite as horrifying as what credulous media treated us with last week.
Published: Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 @ 9:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lord Acton famously observed that “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2023 @ 10:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Utilities Commission’s initial Carbon Plan would close over 9,000 MWs of coal-fired generation by 2035
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2023 @ 7:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Raleigh unwittingly welcomed criminality, and homicides, rapes, assaults, and property crimes have all increased
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2023 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate recently passed Senate Bill 678: Promote Clean Energy, sponsored by Senators Paul Newton, Buck Newton, and David Craven.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Outer Banks Voice reported recently that construction will begin next year on the Kitty Hawk wind energy area. Outer Banks residents are properly concerned about spoiled views and other economic impacts from the project.
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2022 a major report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine warned that enormous wind turbines severely affect the marine vessel radar (MVR) used for navigating waterways shared by commercial and recreational vessels as well as extremely large commercial shipping vessel
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wind projects off Brunswick County beaches would also interfere with military training and operations, including airspace used daily by the 169th Fighter Wing out of South Carolina
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 3:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Massive "city" of enormous wind turbines would severely conflict with military training and operations
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Under SB 678, North Carolina would recognize this fact about the state's most efficient, reliable electricity source
Published: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 9:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate passed a bill unanimously on Monday, May 1.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 7:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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NC State researchers in 2016 found that 80 percent of North Carolina beachgoers would either not return to a beach rental if wind turbines were visible — or require an unreasonable discount for spoiled views
Published: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Turbines under discussion off the coast of Bald Head Island and other Brunswick County beaches would be very tall — 853 feet from base to blade tip, with towers and blade tips all flashing simultaneously 30 times per minute in all directions
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2023 @ 9:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently, federal and state government officials and wind energy advocates tried to quell Brunswick County residents’ serious economic concerns about offshore wind turbines spoiling ocean views and harming tourism
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jon Sanders, director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation, testifies Wednesday about occupational licensing before the N.C. House Regulatory Reform Committee.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 5:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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