Pope Francis is opening a divisive meeting on preserving the Amazon and ministering to its indigenous peoples, as he fends off attacks from conservatives opposed to his ecological agenda.
Both advocates and critics of solar and renewable energy have pounced on a Duke Energy request to North Carolina regulators to modify air-quality permits for natural gas power plants. The issue: Does solar power make air pollution worse?
Can Charlotte, NC be low-carbon? Charlotte City Council passed a strategic energy plan to reduce carbon emissions, and the city is one of 20 recognized by Michael Bloomberg for efforts to fight climate change.
The U.S. environmental agency has found high levels of a toxic substance in a home flooded near a S.C. Superfund site. The agency asked one resident to leave her house as it tests other homes for pollution.
Florence has been blamed for 32 deaths: 25 in North Carolina, 6 in South Carolina and one in Virginia. Among the dead are two infants and a 1-year-old, all in North Carolina.
A group of Democratic senators is asking the administration to explain its ties to Charles and David Koch after the conservative, wealthy brothers bragged to donors that they were responsible for some of President Donald Trump’s policies his first year in office.
