Category: North Carolina
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U.S. Becomes Largest Wood Pellet Exporter, Clearcutting Forests and Destroying Wetlands
Utility companies in Europe are making massive investments to convert their power plants to burn wood—known as “biomass”—as a replacement for coal and other fossil fuels …
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Historic Water Shortages Prompt Government Restrictions in Colorado River Basin
Water users in the parched Southwest U.S. were just hit with a devastating warning.
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills Advance Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda in 2013
ALEC bills in recent years have pulled states out of regional climate initiatives, opposed carbon dioxide emission standards, created hurdles for state agencies attempting to regulate pollution and tried to stop …
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Environmental Leaders Expose How the Coal Industry Poisons Our Water
Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and other environmental leaders came together in Charlotte, NC, to pull the cloak of invisibility off of toxic water pollution from coal-fired power plants …
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Top 12 States Leading the U.S. in Solar Power
The report emphasizes that it is not availability of sunlight that makes states solar leaders, but the degree to which state and local governments have created effective public policy for the development of the solar industry …