Energy and Environment
February 26, 2009 -
North Carolina is not a coal mining state, but its electric utilities are still involved in one of the most destructive mining practices used today -- mountaintop removal mining, which involves blasting off Appalachian peaks to get to the coal and dumping the resulting waste into valleys below.
February 24, 2009 -
The Tennessee Valley Authority's board of directors met earlier this month, its first gathering since last
February 23, 2009 -
By Phil Mattera
February 17, 2009 -
Did Duke Energy get special -- and potentially illegal -- treatment from clean air regulators in North Carolina?
February 13, 2009 -
High arsenic levels have been discovered in water
February 12, 2009 -
Clean energy advocates scored a victory yesterday when a provision to provide $50 billion worth of taxpayer loan guarantees for new nuclear and high-tech coal plants was stripped out of the final version of the economic stimulus bill negotiated by the House and Senate.