The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a stay that would have blocked work on a natural gas pipeline in North Carolina while environmental groups challenge a state permit.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals questioned Tuesday whether North Carolina regulators took proper steps to avoid environmental damage from a planned natural gas pipeline in Rockingham County.
Testing shows Rocco has the highest total PFAS levels of any water treatment plant in NC and the highest Gen-X levels of any groundwater-based system in the US.
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.
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...
At August’s Council of State meeting, North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall said her department faced “a crisis” over inadequate funding for agency staff. Addressing elected members of N.C.’s Executive Branch, Marshall, a Democrat who has served since 1997, said her department’s 185 employees have been required “to do more and more and more...
Over the next 25 years, the market for electrical power in North Carolina will undergo dramatic change. If progressives get their way, government will use a combination of subsidies and mandates to vastly expand our dependence on solar and wind. If cooler heads prevail, we will vastly expand our use of nuclear energy — which...
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.
A disruption in East Coast gasoline supplies has sparked panic buying across the region, with North Carolina among the states hit hardest. Across the state, an average of 14.7% of gas stations report that they are on empty, but that number is higher in urban areas. In the Triangle, gasbuddy.com reports that about 60% of...
