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Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in Rural North Carolina

Residents say they were left out of the decision-making process for a project that includes hundreds of polluting diesel generators.

By Lisa Sorg

 When finished, the Amazon data center in Hamlet, N.C., will have 21 buildings and roughly 600 backup diesel generators that will emit tons of air pollutants each year. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News
Traffic clogs a highway on Jan. 15 in Charlotte, N.C. Part of the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program was intended to help CleanAIRE NC install air quality monitors throughout Mecklenburg County. Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images

Federal Judge Orders EPA to Administer Environmental Justice Grants

By Lauren Dalban
The headquarters of American Efficient in Durham, N.C. Credit: Matt Ramey/The Assembly

North Carolina Energy Company Accused of Fraud Files for Bankruptcy

By Lisa Sorg
Mike Watters stands in a granular activated carbon filtration system that Chemours was required to give him after his well in Grays Creek was contaminated with several types of PFAS. Credit: Mehmet Demirci/Inside Climate News

A Key Forever Chemicals Lawsuit Settles Out of Court in North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg
Braven Environmental stopped operating its Zebulon chemical recycling plant last year and began hauling the last of its equipment away this summer. The circular outline indicates the former location of a tank. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Chemical Plant Mishandled Hazardous Waste for Years, Then Quietly Shuttered

By Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg
The construction site of a natural gas pipeline. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A Pipeline Company Says It Will Protect the Environment in North Carolina. Its Record in Tennessee Says Otherwise.

By Lisa Sorg
The coal-fired Cumberland Fossil Plant operated by Tennessee Valley Authority. Credit: TVA

Trump Administration’s Coal Investments Breathe New Life Into Plants With Repeated Violations

By Ajani Stella
Members of the Lumberton Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Las Amigas Incorporated march along Britt Road on April 18 in St. Pauls, N.C., against the Robeson County Landfill expansion. Credit: Morgan Casey

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg
Researchers look at an air quality monitor on April 10, 2025, in Imperial Beach, Calif. Credit: Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants, Judge Rules

By Lauren Dalban
Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

By Lisa Sorg
Duke Energy’s coal-fired Roxboro plant sits on the shores of Hyco Lake in Person County. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Trump Administration Doubles Down on Coal Power in North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg
A gas turbine is delivered to Duke Energy’s natural gas-fired power plant in Lincoln County, North Carolina, in 2019. Credit: Duke Energy

A New N.C. Ratepayer Bill Puts the Brakes on Data Centers, but Incentivizes Fossil Fuels

By Lisa Sorg
Muddy flood waters of the Catawba River pour over the Oxford Dam, threatening a highway bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024, in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Steve Exum/Getty Images

Supreme Court’s Limitation on Wetlands Protection Will Make Flooding Worse

By Lisa Sorg
A view of a methane digester at Straus Dairy Farm in Marshall, Calif. Credit: Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg
An aerial view of Duke University’s West Campus in Durham, N.C. Credit: Duke University

Duke University Plans a Data Center It Says Will Boost ‘Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability’

By Lisa Sorg
Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline are seen at the construction site near Wauburn, Minn., on June 5, 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

A New Enbridge Pipeline Spurs Opposition in Central North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg
Duke Energy receives tax breaks for its data centers, even though it reported $4.9 billion in gross profits last year. Credit: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images

Duke Energy Received Tax Breaks on Its Three N.C. Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg
The headquarters of American Efficient in Durham, N.C. Credit: Matt Ramey/The Assembly

Feds Fine Durham-Based Energy Efficiency Company $722 Million

By Lisa Sorg
A team of contractors work to install a Transco pipeline in Lebanon, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Transco Pipeline Project Faces Legal Challenge

By Lisa Sorg

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