Raleigh recently won a federal grant to help protect communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including flood damage and heat-related illness.
Advocates for environmental justice and eastern North Carolina residents urged Gov. Roy Cooper to block permits for future wood pellet plants and pay more attention to their effects on health.
Parishioners of St. Francis of Assisi gathered this week to celebrate something their Catholic church now has in common with the Vatican: home-grown solar electricity.
