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| 2010-06-16 | |
| Raleigh--With an approaching June 18 deadline for Southern Company to decide whether to accept billions in federal loan guarantees, and Duke Energy stepping up calls to state policymakers to ease financing for nuclear power, Environment North Carolina exposed the risks nuclear financing poses to taxpayers, ratepayers and the environment. | |
| 2010-05-26 | |
| Raleigh-North Carolina could see at least 28,000 high-quality new jobs along with a cleaner environment by achieving an ambitious, but attainable, benchmark for solar power, according to a new Environment North Carolina Research & Policy Center analysis. | |
| 2010-04-28 | |
| Today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced the Department of the Interior’s final approval of the Cape Wind offshore wind project off the coast of Massachusetts. The announcement means that by 2012, Massachusetts residents could be the first in the nation to receive energy from offshore wind power. | |
| 2010-03-31 | |
| North Carolina families could save $1400 every year on their energy bills by 2030 if the government invests in the energy efficiency of our buildings today, according to a new report by Environment North Carolina. Saving energy in our buildings would also help North Carolina’s fight against global warming by reducing projected greenhouse gas emissions from buildings by 38 percent. | |
| 2010-03-23 | |
| Today the Environmental Protection Agency released its second annual list of U.S. cities with the most Energy Star buildings, on which Charlotte ranked 22nd. In 2009, nearly 3,900 commercial buildings earned the EPA’s Energy Star rating across the country, saving Americans more than $900 million in utility bills every year while reducing annual carbon dioxide emissions by more than 4.7 million metric tons. The Energy Star is awarded to commercial buildings that perform in the top 25 percent of buildings nationwide compared to buildings with the same purpose. Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Denver and Chicago topped the list and are leading the charge to jumpstart our economy and protect our environment by making our country’s buildings more energy efficient. | |
| 2009-11-18 | |
| Raleigh, NC—North Carolina could meet a substantial portion of its electricity needs from the sun, according to a new report by Environment North Carolina Research and Policy Center. The study, “Growing Solar in North Carolina,” projects increasing numbers of solar farms and nearly 700,000 solar panels on top of homes and businesses in the next twenty years, including 100,000 solar roofs in the Triangle alone. | |
| 2009-09-09 | |
| Charlotte, NC- -President Obama’s clean energy plan would save North Carolina households $373 each year and create 16,800 sustainable jobs statewide over the next twenty years, according to a new report released today by Environment North Carolina and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The report, "Energy Efficiency in the American Clean Energy Security Act of 2009: Impacts of Current Provisions and Opportunities to Enhance the Legislation," showed that North Carolina stands to gain more jobs than 40 other states if the bill becomes law. | |
| 2009-08-06 | |
| Raleigh, NC—The state Senate voted today to ban commercial and community wind power projects on the state’s mountains—closing the door on pollution-free turbines that could produce enough electricity to power nearly 200,000 homes. | |
| 2009-07-16 | |
| Raleigh, NC—It seemed inevitable that the state Senate would ban commercial and community wind power projects in the state’s mountains—closing the door on emission-free turbines that could produce enough electricity to power 150,000 homes or more. But clean energy advocates dodged a powerful bullet yesterday when, thanks to Sen. Steve Goss (D-Watauga), lawmakers ultimately deferred the matter to another day. | |
| 2009-06-25 | |
| Charlotte—Combine the planet’s original energy source—the sun—with a simple, age-old technology, and you get reduced energy costs and less global warming pollution. That’s the calculation Mecklenburg County is making. | |
