Energy and Environment
November 29, 2011 -
FALL 2011 | A conservative think tank has filed a controversial Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the University of Virginia seeking emails and other documents related to former professor Michael Mann, a leading scholar of global warming. Facing South explores who the American Tradition Institute is and the implications of its actions.
November 29, 2011 -
As record numbers of North Carolinians struggle to put enough food on the table, Duke Energy pushes for the biggest residential rate hike in 20 years -- while raking in huge profits and avoiding federal taxes.
November 29, 2011 -
The United Houma Nation is petitioning for federal tribal status while fighting to maintain a way of life imperiled by the BP oil disaster.
November 22, 2011 -
As we get ready for the Thanksgiving holidays, we give thanks to you, our readers, and look back at a few of Facing South's biggest stories this fall.
November 21, 2011 -
Several North Carolina legislators are in Pennsylvania today for a fact-finding mission about the controversial natural-gas drilling method known as fracking -- and their tour guide is Chesapeake Energy, one of the nation's largest fracking companies.
November 17, 2011 -
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants to stick the region's ratepayers with the bill for reactor design changes necessitated by the Japanese disaster -- but a coalition of nuclear watchdogs is trying to prevent that from happening.
November 15, 2011 -
A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how power generation is impacting watersheds and makes the case for wiser planning.