Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas To Merge
Two major players in the Carolina energy business could soon merge. The deal would allow Duke Energy to extend it's reach in the natural gas industry.
Two major players in the Carolina energy business could soon merge. The deal would allow Duke Energy to extend it's reach in the natural gas industry.
Here are some of the stories we're following on this Thursday:
North Carolina Lawmakers Begin Studying Session Limits, Pay
The president and CEO of Duke Energy expects a challenge to new EPA regulations targeting power plants.
North Carolina's Attorney General is being pressured to investigate Duke Energy. Several environmental groups want Duke Energy to phase out North Carolina's coal-fired plants.
A North Carolina energy advocacy group is testing the state's utility monopoly law with the installation of solar panels on a Greensboro church.
More drinking wells have been found contaminated from coal ash dumps.
State-supervised testing of drinking water near Duke Energy's Belews Creek coal ash storage pond is inconclusive. Residents remain uncertain as to how safe it is to drink local well water.
Duke Energy plans to build lined landfills to bury coal ash at its closed Dan River Steam Station and the Sutton Plant near Wilmington. This comes as it works to excavate ash from its ponds by the
There's a new conflict rising out of Duke Energy's disposal of coal ash. It concerns possible plans to build a new landfill to store the waste in a low income, minority neighborhood in Eden.