Environment

North Carolina residents will get their say on Duke Energy's request to raise electricity rates to help pay for coal ash cleanup. A public hearing is scheduled Wednesday night in Greensboro.

Residents of some Moscow suburbs complain their lives are being ruined by the smell and sight of giant garbage dumps that ring the city. There is no recycling of garbage in the Russian capital, all trash goes into the expanding landfills.

Visitors to national parks across the United States will see the impact of the government shutdown. Many parks will remain open but services are being discontinued.