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In a late-night legislative session, the N.C. House passed an energy bill early Thursday morning, July 15
Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021 @ 5:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s installed solar power is second only to California’s.
Published: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 @ 8:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In response to a public records request, a document Gov. Roy Cooper said was an email appears to be something else.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Duke Energy lobbyist said Gov. Roy Cooper’s senior policy adviser, Ken Eudy, wasn’t truthful when making statements to a legislative committee investigating the Cooper administration’s role in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and an associated $57.8 million discretionary fund.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 4:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A legislative investigation into the permit process for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a sham, say representatives of Gov. Roy Cooper.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 10:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It started with a simple request on Saturday morning, Jan. 13, 2018. Duke Energy lobbyist Kathy Hawkins asked Ken Eudy, Gov. Roy Cooper’s senior adviser, to help expedite a state official’s signature on an agreement tied to Duke’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline project.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 10:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Just days after warning of the need to regulate solar panel disposal, Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, scrapped his bill for a relaxed version.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper and his staff laid out a comprehensive plan to sell the public on the approval of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a $57.8 million discretionary fund connected to the project
Published: Monday, April 1st, 2019 @ 7:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ohio-based Fifth Third Bank claimed in a March press release it’s the “first Fortune 500 company and first bank to contract for 100 percent renewable power through a single new project.”
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear River Basin could contaminate the Wilkinson Solar Plant in the Terra Ceia community of Beaufort County
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Iredell County opponents of an industrial-scale solar project continue facing roadblocks in their goal to prevent the facility from getting a permit
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 @ 12:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As more and more rural communities push back against renewable energy developers and the encroachment of solar generating plants on open space, another fight gets far less attention
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 3:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously reversed a Superior Court ruling supporting Currituck County’s authority to block a solar farm
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 @ 5:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday that North Carolina would join 13 states and Puerto Rico in the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition opposed to President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 3:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics say N.C. State University's Clean Energy Technology Center is little more than a promotional ally of the solar industry, and the state should pull the plug on its funding
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Chris Millis, R-Pender, warns North Carolina "may be on the way to [becoming] the next Superfund site" because it lacks a closure plan for hundreds of millions of tons of solar farm materials containing hazardous substances when the solar facilities wear out.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has no environmental rules for shutting down solar projects safely, state officials say, and may lack sufficient facilities to dispose of the glass, steel, industrial lubricants, and toxic elements after solar panels in the state's expanding solar industry reach the end of their usefu
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 8:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Internet giant Google collected $262 million in incentives when it located a data center in North Carolina, and now is urging the General Assembly to continue offering hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy investors.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Morrison, chief operating officer of Strata Solar in Chapel Hill, on Wednesday was lauding the brisk growth of sun-powered electricity in North Carolina in comments to the North Carolina Energy Policy Council. His company has built solar farm and solar array projects across North Carolina with
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 2:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In January 2011, Thom Tillis was elected speaker of the state House. In March, 2011, it hit the media that House leaders were attempting to kill a conservative-promoted measure to eliminate the state's "renewable energy" mandate.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 11:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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