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North Carolina regulators have approved a rate increase for Duke Energy customers in the central part of the state, including Charlotte — but it's less than the company asked for. Wednesday's order by the North Carolina Utilities Commission also trims what Duke had hoped to charge customers for the cost of cleaning up coal ash. -
Courtesy of the North Carolina Coastal Federation/A large-scale effort is underway to remove abandoned and derelict boats from North Carolina’s coast.
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North Carolina seagrass in the Albemarle-Pamlico estuary decreased by almost 6% between 2006 and 2013, according to a long-anticipated report.The new… -
The red-cockaded woodpecker has been listed as endangered for more than half a century, but that could soon change.In the final months of the Trump…
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has again picked a veteran leader from the Environmental Defense Fund to become his environment secretary.Cooper announced…
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Duke Energy, North Carolina officials and a conservation group announced Monday an agreement on how the utility pays to get rid of coal ash stored in the…
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A judge has ordered the federal government to come up with a plan to release more endangered red wolves from breeding programs to bolster the dwindling…
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North Carolina has a new resident that weighs more than 1,000 pounds.His name is Payton. He is a polar bear.Payton was welcomed to the North Carolina Zoo…
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The estimated size of the largest gasoline pipeline spill in North Carolina history keeps growing. Colonial Pipeline now estimates that nearly 1.2 million gallons of gasoline spilled when a pipeline ruptured in a Huntersville nature preserve last August.
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America’s rivers are changing color — and people are behind many of the shifts, a new study said.One-third of the tens of thousands of mile-long (two…
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The developers of the now-canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline have laid out plans for how they want to go about unwinding the work that was done for the…
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Four Native American tribes on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast requested United Nations assistance this year to force action by the U.S. government on invading…
