Regional Leaders Seek Solar Schools Partnership with Duke Energy
By Randall Rigsbee, Chatham News + Record Staff Local elected officials are calling on Duke...
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State Local Officials Push for Solar Power Partnership with Duke Energy
34 local elected officials recently wrote a letter to the CEO of Duke Energy seeking a partnership to install solar power and energy storage systems at North Carolina schools. Officials from school systems, counties and cities...
Read MoreDuke Energy Sued for 2014 Coal Ash Spill Environmental Harm
The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country’s largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that left miles of a river shared...
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Power Restored in Carrboro
****UPDATE: All power has been restored in Carrboro.**** ****UPDATE: Duke Energy is reporting that...
Read MoreStudy: Heavy Metals in N Carolina Lake Bottom Extensive
A toxic stew of coal ash has spilled repeatedly and apparently unnoticed from storage pits at a Wilmington power plant into an adjoining lake, according to a Duke University scientist who said Monday that flooding last September...
Read MoreN Carolina, Duke Energy Contest Coal Ash Cost, Removal Scope
North Carolina’s environmental agency exceeded its authority by ordering Duke Energy Corp. to dig up all of its coal ash and move it from unlined storage sites where toxic chemicals have seeped into water supplies, the...
Read MoreDuke Energy to Contest N Carolina Coal Ash Excavation Order
The country’s largest electric company says it’s challenging an order by North Carolina’s environmental agency to excavate coal ash from all of its power plant sites in the state. Duke Energy Corp. said...
Read MoreNorth Carolina Orders Duke Energy to Excavate All Coal Ash
The country’s largest electric company was ordered Monday to excavate coal ash from all of its North Carolina power plant sites, slashing the risk of toxic chemicals leaking into water supplies but potentially adding...
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Chapel Hill Saves With Energy Efficiency, but Officials Say More is Needed
Efforts to conserve energy in the Community Center, Town Hall and the Homestead Aquatics Center...
Read MoreFewer than 400 Remain Without Power in Orange County
6 a.m. Tuesday UPDATE: Duke Energy reported that most outages in Orange County were restored by early Tuesday morning; there were just under 400 Duke Energy customers without power. Piedmont Electric reported that all of the...
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