Dr. Ivar Giaever, 1973 Nobel Prize winner in the field of Physics and an Obama voter, argued recently at a conference of Nobel Laureates in Germany that global warming was a "non problem." According to a story published at ClimateDepot.com...
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The last time any ozone (smog) monitor in North Carolina registered a reading that exceeded EPA's maximum standard of 75 parts per billion in ambient air was May 15, 2013 on one monitor in the Triad. Last year appears to have been the best on record...
Published: Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pick your natural resource: oil, land, copper, coal, you name it. At one time or another, it has been predicted that we will one day run out of that resource. These predictions have all been based on a false economic assumption, namely that because the physical quantity of something is finite...
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2015 @ 6:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The tax foundation has just published a report analyzing the various excise taxes levied on beer in all 50 states. North Carolina comes in the 8th highest, levying a $.62 per gallon tax on those who enjoy having a couple of cold ones on a hot Saturday afternoon after mowing the lawn...
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As reported in The Fayetteville Observer back in March: From 2007 to 2014...$421 million [was spent in the Cape Fear region] on solar projects. In the first 70 days of 2015, Dallas-based Principal Solar announced plans to tack on another $325 million worth of facilities in Cumberland and Bladen...
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2015 @ 11:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I write this, what is turning out to possibly be the most powerful crony special interest in North Carolina is fighting to keep part of its welfare money flowing. A regulatory reform bill that reduces the amount of super expensive solar energy that North Carolina electricity users are...
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 1:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2014 ozone (smog) season has come and gone. It started on April 1 and ended on October 31. The results for the season are in. There was not a single monitor location, out of 44 across the state, where the EPA standard of 75 parts per billion of ambient air was exceeded. As far as I can tell, thi
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 10:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is on the verge of recapturing pre-recession levels of job creation, but a controversial Obama administration ozone regulation proposal could erase recent gains and launch a new round of job losses, business and manufacturing officials said Monday.
Published: Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The company formerly known as Progress Energy, now part of the Duke Energy monopoly, is seeking a 14 percent hike in electric rates for households in its North Carolina territory.
Published: Monday, October 15th, 2012 @ 8:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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