Tests: Few Heavy Metals in River After Coal Plant Dam Burst
Despite the gray muck that fouled the Cape Fear River near a Wilmington power plant after...
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Duke Energy
Duke Says Its Data Show No Harm From Flooded Coal Ash Dump
Duke Energy said Monday that results from water samples collected downstream of a flooded North Carolina coal ash dump show no negative impacts to the Cape Fear River. The data Duke released were from a sample collected over the...
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Power Restored in Hillsborough After ‘Town Treasure’ Tree Falls
****UPDATE: Duke Energy restored power to Hillsborough late Friday night.**** Duke Energy is...
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Power Being Restored in Hillsborough
****Duke Energy is reporting that most of the outages have been restored as of 2 p.m. Roughly 135...
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Power Restored in Downtown Pittsboro
****UPDATE: Power has been restored to the main outage that caused downtown Pittsboro to lose...
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Durham Tech Reopening Orange County Campus Monday
****UPDATE: Durham Tech’s Orange County campus is scheduled to reopen on Monday, July 16,...
Read MoreNC Consumers Could See $5 Billion Coal Ash Cleanup Bill
A string of decisions by state regulators means electricity consumers could see a multibillion-dollar bill to clean up mountains of waste Duke Energy created by spending decades burning coal to produce power.
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Crews Working to Restore Power Across Orange County After Overnight Storms
More than 500 customers are without power Monday morning, according to Duke Energy, after a strong...
Read MorePower Being Restored After Overnight Outages in Chapel Hill
A transformer reportedly caught fire early Tuesday near the Hong Kong Buffet adjacent to Fordham Boulevard causing “a widespread power outage,” according to Chapel Hill Police. The power outage came amid storms that...
Read MoreNorth Carolina Court Upholds Group’s Solar Power Violation
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday quickly rejected a challenge to regulators who decided a clean-energy advocacy group broke electric-service rules by selling solar power to a church. The justices heard oral arguments...
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