The Reign of Error, Renewable Energy Edition

Greetings from North Carolina, where our legislature gets to more crazy in a week than yours does in an entire session. You're probably sick of hearing about it, but Plugged In wants to keep you plugged in. Okay, legislative dumbassery the first: the legislature would like to ban greenhouse gas laws. Yep --NC Senate Bill 171, filed March 5, prohibits "state agencies and local governments from adopting, implementing, or enforcing a rule or ordinance that regulates greenhouse gas emissions. " Which is good because it does more than merely prevent the state's many sensible communities -- Asheville, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Raleigh, and Durham, and many others are all energy-forward-thinking municipalities, offering free electric car charging stations and the like -- from implementing strategies overtly addressing one of the greatest challenges of our time, clogging up the channels of science. [More]