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In February, the N.C. Utilities Commission gave Duke Energy approval to build two natural gas-fired units at an Asheville power plant. Natural gas is…
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Duke Energy Progress says it will convert another power plant from coal to natural gas. Duke Energy's plans for the facility at Lake Julian in Asheville…
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Duke Energy Progress says it will convert another power plant from coal to natural gas. Duke Energy's plans for the facility at Lake Julian in Asheville…
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The North Carolina House of Representatives has approved a plan to comply with proposed federal requirements to curb planet-warming carbon pollution from…
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Last weekend marked the fifth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West Virginia—the nation’s worst coal mine disaster in decades. Massey…
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Last weekend marked the fifth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in West Virginia—the nation’s worst coal mine disaster in decades. Massey…
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Did you miss it? The Diane Rehm Show devoted an episode earlier this week to the coal ash spill in Eden, NC.(The spill was caused by a pipe failure at a…
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A new study from Duke University says new air quality standards could spur a shift away from coal power to natural gas as a means of generating…
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Progress Energy will close one of its older coal-fired plants tomorrow.Officials with the Duke Energy subsidiary say the Lee plant near Goldsboro is one…
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Emissions of toxic mercury from North Carolina coal-fired power plants have dropped significantly in the last decade.Jeff Tiberii: In 2002 the General…