Environment & Energy

Senate and House leaders have come to an agreement on a final version of the legislature's spending plan. All eyes will move to the Governor after this week. Click on the video ... Keep Reading

The House Agriculture committee discussed HB 1093 yesterday, also known as Agriculture Regulatory Reform.  If passed, the bill would establish a number of means towards reducing ... Keep Reading

Friday’s Bad Bill of the Week on HB 1139 featured just another instance of needless and inefficient “green legislation.” What happens when corporations can’t meet the standards ... Keep Reading

A new bill surfaced in the state Senate to set rules and authorize drilling for natural gas under the surface of North Carolina. The legislature passed Senate bill 709 that would ... Keep Reading

Now that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) says shale drilling or "fracking" could be done safely in North Carolina lawmakers are going ahead with ... Keep Reading

A state Senate committee on energy issues began its own study of how to expand energy exploration in North Carolina. The General Assembly passed a bill to authorize a study of such ... Keep Reading

State Representative Mike Hager (R-Rutherford) had just returned from a trip to Pennsylvania for a tour of the exploration for natural gas with hydraulic fracturing of shale called ... Keep Reading

The House voted to override the Governor's veto of SB781, the Regulatory Reform Act of 2011. The new law is an attempt to take some of the burden of rules off businesses and ... Keep Reading

First Governor Beverly Perdue  vetoed SB532 that would have made changes at the Employment Security Commission (ESC) and put it under the director of the Secretary of Commerce. ... Keep Reading

Poof. Just like that, global warming hysteria is starting to evaporate. Consider this from Lorne Gunter of Canada's National Post: Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western ... Keep Reading