During this legislative session alone Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed nineteen bills from the Republican-led state legislature and fourteen have been overridden. On Tuesday, the remaining five are on the calendar.
Gov. Roy Cooper has declared the week of Sept. 25 "Clean Energy Week." Whether that indicates he will sign Senate Bill 678, "Clean Energy/Other Changes," remains unclear.
This week, Duke Energy released its new plan to meet carbon reduction requirements outlined in H.B. 951. Carolina Journal had the opportunity to catch up with Bill Norton, who works for Duke, about the details of their plan and the company's perspective on energy policy over the next few decades.
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has recently announced that two offshore wind sites located in Eastern North Carolina will not be leased due to objections from The Department of Defense.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed three lawsuits challenging permits for the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia. The decision ultimately could boost the prospects of the MVP Southgate extension into Ala
On July 27, the US Supreme Court vacated the stay imposed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The pipeline project is about 94% completed and was originally supposed to be finished by 2020, but desperate court challenges and permit delays had pushed its completion date to 2026. The...
North Carolina's Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, is leading a bipartisan coalition of 15 senators who want the U.S. Senate to embrace nuclear energy as a reliable, clean answer to a secure power grid.
The possibility of a Mountain Valley Pipeline extension into North Carolina cropped up once during more than an hour of arguments Thursday at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Appellate judges are debating whether to dismiss a case from environmental activists challenging pipeline permits.
The bill would relabel “renewable energy resources” to “clean energy resources” in the State’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (REPS) and add nuclear fission and fusion into the definition of clean energy.
