Category: Green Building LEED News
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Duke Energy Announces Coal Ash Spill Cleanup Will Take 2+ Years; Emails Show Collusion Between Regulators and NC Utility
Duke Energy, North Carolina’s largest electric and gas supplier, announced Friday it would take the company more than two years to clean up February’s massive coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River with 60,000 tons of toxic sludge. [caption id="attachment_326282" align="alignnone" width="500"] Environmental regulators in North Carolina consulted Duke Energy last year…
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Friday Roundup: South America’s 1st LEED auto plant, ‘father of LEED’ makes case
Feature image: Here’s our weekly collection of green building clips: GM Has First LEED Certified Plant In South America, Hybrid Cars News. The Joinville, Brazil, plant is General Mot…
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Waterkeeper Alliance: Factory Farm Swine Operation Violates Clean Water Act
The Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation and Waterkeeper Alliance issued a notice of intent on Friday to sue an industrial swine feeding operation in order to stop illegal discharges of swine waste into groundwater, wetlands and streams that flow to North Carolina’s Contentnea Creek and Neuse River watersheds. [caption id="attachment_326182" align="alignnone" width="500"] People living near the Stantonsburg Facility…
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Court Victories and Contracts Bring First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Closer to Development
It’s been a decade-long journey for Cape Wind, the developer of what could be the first offshore wind farm in the U.S., and this week the project took major steps toward becoming a reality. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton issued a ruling upholding the federal Department of Interior’s (DOI) approval of Cape Wind,…
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Texas Group Exceeds Signature Requirement for Fracking Ban on Nov. Ballot
Frack Free Denton today announced they have gathered substantially more than the required signatures to put their fracking ban initiative on the November ballot. Denton City charter requires signatures equal to 25 percent of votes cast in the most recent general election for an initiative to get on the ballot. [caption id="attachment_326235" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo…