John Locke Foundation

Utilities, fossil fuel companies, and aligned groups filed public comments last month supporting a pair of Trump administration proposals to repeal EPA limits on harmful emissions of air pollution and greenhouse gases from power plants.   One of the Trump administration’s proposals would reverse a Biden-era EPA rule that strengthened Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS),...

North Carolina lawmakers this week will begin considering the nomination to the North Carolina Utilities Commission of Donald van der Vaart, whose wife’s work would present potential conflicts of interest for him in this role, and who has been a lightning rod for controversy due to extreme positions questioning humans’ role in driving climate change....

Duke Energy contributed $25,000 to the John Locke Foundation (JLF), a leading voice of climate science denial and renewable energy rejectionism in North Carolina. The contribution, which occurred in 2021 and which Duke disclosed in a rate hike case at the N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC) on Jan. 19, 2023, came as the think tank prepared...

The State Policy Network (SPN) announced on its website last month that it will focus on working with state lawmakers to prevent states from adopting wind and solar power in 2024.  SPN is the national organization that serves as the central hub of a network of affiliated think tanks located in all 50 states, and...