North Carolina’s attorney general on Wednesday challenged regulators for allowing Duke Energy to start charging consumers hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up coal ash dumps and add a potential profit margin. State...
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****UPDATE: The roadway has reopened as of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.**** Part of Pritchard Avenue is...
Read MoreCarrboro High School dismissed students early Friday due to a power outage at the school. Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools officials tweeted just after 12:40 p.m. Friday that the power outage was causing the early...
Read MoreA state appeals court will hear whether it should allow a five-year-old lawsuit trying to force Duke Energy Corp. to clean up groundwater contaminated by its North Carolina coal ash pits. The Charlotte-based electricity utility...
Read MoreNeighbors of Duke Energy Corp.’s unlined coal ash pits in North Carolina went to court after the company said their $5,000 “goodwill” payments required them to give up future health claims linked to contaminated well water, but...
Read MoreRegulators are deciding whether to set a precedent and allow the country’s largest electric company to charge North Carolina consumers the full, multi-billion-dollar cost of cleaning up coal ash dumps. The North Carolina...
Read MoreThe nation’s largest electric company is fighting to persuade regulators that North Carolina consumers should pay 15 percent more on average, including nearly $200 million a year to clean up the toxic byproducts of burning coal...
Read MoreEast Chapel Hill High held a Solar Kickoff event last Wednesday to celebrate their winning a grant to install solar panels at the school. The $300,000 grant was awarded to the school and seven other schools in the state by Duke...
Read More****UPDATE: The power was restored before nine o’clock Friday night.**** More than 1,900 residents in southwestern Orange County are without power Friday afternoon, according to the Duke Energy Outage Map. Nearly 1,000 of...
Read MoreEnvironmental regulators have approved Duke Energy’s plan for a lined landfill at a coastal North Carolina power plant so coal ash can be deposited there. The state Department of Environmental Quality announced Friday the...
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