Gov. Roy Cooper announced the appointment of Peter Ledford to take over as his Clean Energy Director. Ledford previously worked for the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association. Ledford replaces Dionne Delli-Gatti, who left for another position. The clean energy director role was initially created for Delli-Gatti, who first was Cooper’s appointee to lead the Department of Environmental...
The federal government would be banned from using the so-called “social cost of carbon” in its rulemaking process, under a bill co-sponsored by a member of the N.C. congressional delegation. U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8th District, is one of six Republican House sponsors of the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act.
John Skvarla (d. 2022), during his first year as secretary of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, discusses his approach to the job. Skvarla offered these remarks during an Aug. 19, 2013, presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
Pat Michaels (1950-2022) discusses his book “Lukewarming” with Carolina Journal in 2017.
Pat Michaels (1950-2022) discusses global warming and a government-scientific complex in a 2012 interview with Carolina Journal.
