Research Report
Time for a change: New legislature should realign its positions on environmental issues
posted February 14, 2011 by Dr. Roy Cordato
Over the last decade, North Carolina has led the way among southern states in advancing a more extreme environmentalist agenda. The General Assembly's new Republican majority should start anew on environmental issues. Legislators should put environmental policy into the context of the ideas of liberty, personal responsibility, and economic growth that the party ran on last fall.