The Energy Report
Clean Energy Advocates Criticize APCo Solar Proposal
Appalachian Power Company seeks to add fees to its costumers who switch to solar energy, causing many to worry that this cost may discourage some from choosing this clean energy option.
Read MoreCancer Risks from Nuclear Too Expensive To Study
A pilot study to determine whether any cancer risks are associated with living near nuclear facilities has been cancelled due to lack of funding.
Read MoreNatural Gas Pipelines Encroach on Appalachia
A circuit court judge ruled that a natural gas pipeline project could not survey private land without the owner’s permission.
Read MoreTwo Coal Companies Guilty of Water Pollution Violations
In recent decisions, two coal companies were found guilty of violations to the Clean Water Act.
Read MoreEnergy Report News Bites
Robust Opposition to Atlantic Offshore Drilling, Benefits of Natural Gas and Coal Refuted, and Virginia Establishes Green Community Program
Read MoreBankruptcies Roil Coal Industry and Worry Regulators
Major coal companies are filing for bankruptcy, causing concerns that they may not clean up contaminated lands or meet their obligations to workers.
Read MoreCourt Ruling Sets Back EPA Mercury Standards
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did not properly consider the price of a rule to curb mercury pollution and other toxic emissions from coal plants.
Read MoreFracking Investigations Stir Questions, Fines
Kentucky researchers prepare to test for fracking-induced earthquakes, a university fracking site stirs controversy in West Virginia, and suspicion rises that there may be natural gas beneath Stokes County, North Carolina.
Read MoreN.C. Solar Snapshot
A 20-megawatt solar farm under construction near Biscoe, N.C., is projected to power the equivalent of 3,500 homes when it is completed in November.
Read MoreGroups Test Boundaries of N.C. Solar Laws
In a direct challenge to North Carolina laws governing electricity sales, clean energy group NC WARN financed a solar project on a church roof and plans to sell the energy to the church for about half of Duke Energy’s solar rate.
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