Environment

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on a John Locke Foundation scholar’s critique of Gov Roy Cooper’s recent decision to join the U.S. Climate Alliance. Kristen Blair’s Daily Journal highlights new research that boosts the argument for starting school later in the morning.

Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller highlights the latest evidence that climate alarmists have been touting overly pessimistic projections. Another group of prominent climate scientists have published research claiming humanity may have a couple extra decades before pushing the world past what the U.N. calls “dangerous” levels of…

Hurricane Harvey’s damage to Houston-area gas pipeline operations helped bump up gas prices in North Carolina. State officials invoked the state price gouging law. Roy Cordato explains in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio why that law creates more problems than it solves. Katherine Restrepo…

This great news. It also removes any justification to kill off entire industries, throw thousands of people out of work, and hide the enormous costs to people to make a symbolic stand against energy emissions.

Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon delivers important news to those who believe climate change is responsible for Hurricane Harvey. While media outlets are suggesting climate change is to blame for exacerbating Hurricane Harvey’s conditions, a much worse hurricane hit Texas more than a century ago—before Americans…

James Lileks muses at National Review about climate scolds’ latest dubious pronouncement. PERHAPS you saw the story ping-ponging around the Internet in August: Climate-change activists want to ban dogs and cats. You weren’t surprised. If something gives ease and joy to human life, someone yearns to ban it.

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on one former lawmaker’s argument that North Carolina’s plastic bag ban on the Outer Banks is likely unconstitutional. John Hood’s Daily Journal emphasizes the importance of value-added measures in public education.

Tim Pearce reports for the Daily Caller on one way in which federal environmental regulators sidestep congressional oversight. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established a practice in recent years that allows the agency to “create its own de facto power of the purse,” according to a report…