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Duke considers closing old coal plants
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2010-09-02 |
| Duke Energy said Wednesday it might close seven coal-fired units at its Carolinas power plants within five years as environmental regulations intensify | |
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Vanishing ice caps have experts worried
- News & Observer (new window)
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2010-08-23 |
| When Lonnie Thompson returned to a research spot on a Peruvian ice cap in 2007, he was surprised by what he didn't see. A lake that had developed in the 1980s and was there in 2006 was gone. | |
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Plant growth declines as warming causes drought
- Fayetteville Observer (new window)
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2010-08-19 |
| Plant growth that had been spurred by global warming has reversed, despite temperatures that continue to rise. Researchers say the change could affect food security and development of biofuels. | |
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In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming
- Star News (new window)
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2010-08-15 |
| The floods battered New England, then Nashville, then Arkansas, then Oklahoma — and were followed by a deluge in Pakistan that has upended the lives of 20 million people. The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheat and thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record. Seemingly disconnected, these far-flung disasters are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes. | |
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2010 on track to be hottest year on record
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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2010-08-13 |
| The Earth continues to feel the heat. Last month was the second warmest July on record, and so far 2010 remains on track to be the hottest year. | |
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We owe it to grandchildren to reduce emissions
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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2010-08-12 |
| “Have they no grandchildren?” was the question that Tom Friedman asked his readers at the end of his recent Op-Ed “We're gonna be sorry.” He was writing about the failure of the Senate and the Obama administration to come to terms with rapidly accelerating climate change by abandoning efforts to cap U.S. carbon emissions and create a plan to reduce emissions as quickly as possible. The only legislation the Senate will consider this year is a bill that addresses the Gulf oil disaster, with window dressing for some home energy efficiency and subsidies for natural gas and electric vehicles. As Friedman rightly points out, this bill will do substantially nothing to address the enormity of the predicament of rapid global heating that our fossil fuel addiction has created. | |
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Economy Slows LEED Efforts on Properties in Triad, NC
- The Business Journal (new window)
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2010-06-25 |
| The fanfare over “green” building may still be going strong, but the recession has finally begun weighing on the number of commercial building projects pursuing LEED certification in the Triad and statewide. | |
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Duke Energy continues energy legislation efforts
- Charlotte Business Journal (new window)
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2010-06-16 |
| Federal legislation capping carbon emissions appears dead for now. But some energy bill is still likely in the current Congress, and Duke Energy continues its efforts to help shape the legislation. | |
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Climate splitting Democrats
- Sun Journal (new window)
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2010-06-16 |
| Senate Republicans fell short Thursday, 53-47, of overturning the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, but exposed a significant split among Democrats that may bode ill for passage this year of comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation. | |
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Bus plan would link Raleigh and airport
- The News and Observer (new window)
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2010-03-17 |
| Three regional transit agencies proposed changes Monday to reduce duplication in bus routes, give more options to riders between Durham and Chapel Hill and launch direct bus service between the airport and downtown Raleigh. | |
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Charlotte to seek $25 million federal grant for street car
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2010-01-26 |
| Charlotte is going to ask the federal government for $25million to help build a streetcar line uptown. The City Council voted 7-4 Monday night to apply for a grant that would pay for much of a 1.5-mile line from the Charlotte Transportation Center to Presbyterian Hospital on Hawthorne Drive in the Elizabeth neighborhood. | |
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Editorial: The Case for a Climate Bill
- The New York Times (new window)
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2010-01-23 |
| The conventional wisdom is that the chances of Congress passing a bill that puts both a cap and a price on greenhouse gases are somewhere between terrible and nil. President Obama can start to prove the conventional wisdom wrong by making a full-throated case for a climate bill in his State of the Union speech this week. | |
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Sea rising along N.C., but how quickly?
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2010-01-16 |
| Accelerating upward creep could reshape the coast and endanger Outer Banks, scientists say. | |
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Experts: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming
- News & Observer (new window)
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2010-01-07 |
| Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches. | |
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On climate, waiting for U.S. move
- News & Observer (new window)
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2009-12-17 |
| COPENHAGEN -- U.N. climate negotiators looked Wednesday to the United States to bring fresh ideas - perhaps in the form of extra billions of dollars - to try to salvage a bare-bones political agreement by the end of the week on controlling global warming. | |
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Op-Ed: Yes We Can Stop Global Warming (Without Giving Away the Store)
- Huffington Post (new window)
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2009-10-15 |
| In the chase for the 60th Senator, Senator Kerry and other leaders must ensure that a final bill actually creates the framework for a truly clean energy future, and does not become so diverted by accommodations and giveaways that the solutions we seek are in fact no closer tomorrow than they were today. | |
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Op-Ed: Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)
- The New York Times (new window)
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2009-10-10 |
| CONVENTIONAL wisdom suggests that the prospect of Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill soon is rapidly approaching zero. The divisions in our country on how to deal with climate change are deep. Many Democrats insist on tough new standards for curtailing the carbon emissions that cause global warming. Many Republicans remain concerned about the cost to Americans relative to the environmental benefit and are adamant about breaking our addiction to foreign sources of oil. | |
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Transit ridership up 16% in N.C., 2007-2008
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2009-09-23 |
| Transit ridership in North Carolina in 2008 was up 16 percent over the previous year - a strong increase fueled by Charlotte's light-rail line, according to an Environment North Carolina study released Tuesday. | |
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State hoping to turn 9,000-vehicle fleet green
- News 14 (new window)
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2009-06-17 |
| RALEIGH – Lawmakers passed a bill this week that will make the state's fleet of vehicles greener by making sure auto makers know North Carolina is no longer interested in putting more gas guzzlers on the roads. | |
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Obama Sets Emission Rules
- New York Times (new window)
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2009-05-19 |
| President Obama announced tough new nationwide rules for automobile emissions and mileage standards on Tuesday, embracing standards that California has sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush administration. | |
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Panel stiffens scrutiny for air pollutants
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2009-05-15 |
| A state environmental board on Thursday voted to increase scrutiny of the toxic air pollution coming out of hundreds of N.C. power plants and industries. | |
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U.S. opens way for wind off coast
- Raleigh News and Observer (new window)
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2009-04-23 |
| The federal government has cleared the way for developers to plant wind farms in offshore waters on the Outer Continental Shelf, a move that could have a significant impact for North Carolina. | |
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Legislators considering green bills on Earth Day
- NBC 17 (new window)
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2009-04-22 |
| On "Earth Day" we're reminded of how we can take action, and right now in the North Carolina legislature there are about 150 bills meant to help the environment according to one state lawmaker. | |
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RTP companies favor tax proposal for transit
- News and Observer (new window)
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2009-04-15 |
| Research Triangle Park employers have signaled their willingness to tax themselves as much as $3 million a year to help build a regional bus and rail transit system that would be funded mostly with a local sales tax. | |
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Lawmaker takes on emissions reductions
- Rocky Mount Telegram (new window)
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2009-04-12 |
| Environmental activists eager to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have begun to pressure a North Carolina lawmaker who’s likely to have a seat at the table this month as Congress takes up potential cap-and-trade policy. | |
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Sales tax for transit backed
- Raleigh News and Observer (new window)
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2009-03-12 |
| With backing from road builders and environmentalists, a House committee endorsed legislation Wednesday that would let Triangle voters increase the local sales tax to pay for buses and rail transit. | |
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Drought worsens across North Carolina
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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2009-02-20 |
| RALEIGH – North Carolina’s drought conditions worsened for the second straight week, as drought has now expanded to more than half of North Carolina’s counties for the first time since mid-November, according to Thursday’s map issued by the U.S. Drought Monitor. | |
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County tallies greenhouse gas emissions
- Charlotte Observer (new window)
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2008-07-07 |
| In a sign of growing attention to a warming planet, Mecklenburg County has finished its first greenhouse-gas inventory of county government operations. | |
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NC House Looks At Clean Car Program To Cut Emissions
- NBC 17 (new window)
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2008-05-27 |
| RALEIGH, N.C. -- A study bill introduced in the North Carolina State House would aim to cut emissions from cars. | |
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Senate panel votes to overturn EPA on Calif. waiver
- News and Observer (new window)
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2008-05-21 |
| WASHINGTON - A Senate panel voted narrowly Wednesday to overturn EPA's decision blocking California and more than a dozen other states from limiting greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. | |
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