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The Speed Test
What Generation Can Actually Come Online in Time? In the first article of this series, The Missile and the Meter, I traced the direct line from Iran’s missile strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG complex to the power bills of families in North Carolina. The mechanism is not abstract. It is arithmetic. Global gas prices…
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The Missile and the Meter
How a Strike on Qatar Will Show Up on Your North Carolina Power Bill Since the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, Iranian missiles have struck Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City multiple times. Ras Laffan is home to the largest liquefied natural gas export facility on earth. The initial drone strikes on March 2…
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A Year to Move: Why North Carolina Should Seize the Clean-Transportation Moment
Every now and then, opportunity shows up wearing a bureaucratic name tag. “Surface Transportation Reauthorization” might not sound like the stuff of bold climate action, but for North Carolina, it just might be. As Volts recently highlighted in a conversation between David Roberts and Liya Rechtman of Evergreen Action, governors across the country still have one powerful…