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Trump Administration Doubles Down on Coal Power in North Carolina

Duke Energy could receive $28.4 million in federal grants for upgrades, matched by $44 million in ratepayer funds.

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
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

Mist rises from the cooling towers of Google’s data center in Lenoir, N.C. Credit: Google

What Is the Economic Impact of Data Centers? It’s a Secret.

By Lisa Sorg

Craig Watts raised chicks on a factory farm for 20 years but left after he clashed with Perdue, the giant poultry company, over contract provisions and the welfare of the animals. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

By Lisa Sorg

Tim and Deborah Mabe are among the plaintiffs suing Stokes County. Their land, in the family for generations, abuts the data center property. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In N.C., Stokes County Approves a Data Center Rezoning, Triggering a Citizens’ Lawsuit

By Lisa Sorg

Brenda Schwab moved to Rowland in November 2024. She’s been sampling waterways in the area because she is concerned about waste from CAFOs potentially entering creeks and swamps. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well.

By Lisa Sorg

A creek flows near a public recreation center in Durham, N.C., where chemicals are seeping into the waterway about a half-mile upstream. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Global Chemical Giant Racks Up Violations in Durham, N.C., Where Drinking Water for a Million Is Threatened

By Lisa Sorg

An aerial view of the Port of Wilmington in North Carolina. Credit: NC Ports

North Carolina Regulators Nix $1.2 Billion Federal Proposal to Dredge Wilmington Harbor

By Lisa Sorg

A nearly 600-acre fire in Pacolet, S.C., caused substantial burning of tree roots. The roots are where kudzu vines build strong anchor points. Credit: Don Dicey/Conserving Carolina

The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires

By Jaylan Sims

An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

StarPet, a plastics plant in Asheboro, sends wastewater containing 1,4-dioxane to the city's treatment plant, which in turn discharges it into rivers and streams that are drinking water supplies. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater

By Lisa Sorg

Taylor Register, a water quality specialist with Sound Rivers, samples water from a ditch near White Oaks Farm in North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of Samantha Krop

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

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