Swain County, N.C., is receiving a $35.2 million settlement for an incomplete road the federal government started in 1943.
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N.C. Solar Developers Lose Challenge to Duke
The North Carolina Utilities Commission denied requests to review conditions for battery storage Duke Energy inserted into power-purchase agreements for 680 megawatts of new solar projects.
N.C. Slashes Duke Energy Carolinas Rate Hike
North Carolina regulators denied Duke Energy Carolinas’ request to enact a 13.6 percent overall rate hike, instead approving a 0.3 percent increase for residential customers for four years before rates rise.
Blue Ridge Energy: An uncooperative cooperative?
As a resident of the North Carolina High Country and a member of Blue Ridge Energy, Appalachian Voices’ Rory McIlmoil believes the co-op can and must do better by its members.
TAGS: Blue Ridge Energy clean energy Electric Cooperatives Energy Efficiency North Carolina rural electric cooperatives
Protect our communities. Stop the MVP Southgate fracked-gas pipeline
The developers behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline will host meetings on June 25-28 to get local feedback in some of the communities the 72-mile proposed MVP Southgate extension would traverse.
Duke Energy’s grid modernization pilot still shortchanges ratepayers
Appalachian Voices and our allies are raising concerns related to the process and substance behind Duke Energy’s grid modernization pilot.
Rising resistance to pipelines
Resistance to the fracked-gas Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines is growing, crossing all sorts of divides. Government agencies and officials supporting the projects are on the wrong side of history.
TAGS: Atlantic Coast Pipeline fracking mountain valley pipeline Natural Gas North Carolina pipelines Virginia West Virginia
Pipeline Resistance Grows on Multiple Fronts
Tree-sits, legal battles and more have sprung up in response to the natural gas pipelines being proposed and built across the region.
TAGS: Appalachians Against Pipelines Atlantic Coast Pipeline mountain valley pipeline North Carolina pipelines resistance tree-sit Virginia West Virginia
One Neighborhood’s Fight for Representation
How the predominately African-American neighborhood of Walnut Tree in Stokes County, N.C., won clean water and local voting rights.
Environmental Protection Agency Aims to Deregulate Coal Ash
The Trump administration’s proposal to roll back federal coal ash safeguards gives more leeway to states — and advocates worry that would put drinking water at risk.
TAGS: CCR Coal Ash coal ash cleanup coal ash rule deregulation Environmental Protection Agency EPA Kentucky North Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia
