Colonial Pipeline
The estimated size of the largest gasoline pipeline spill in North Carolina history keeps growing. Colonial Pipeline now estimates that nearly 1.2 million gallons of gasoline spilled when a pipeline ruptured in a Huntersville nature preserve last August.
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Courtesy of SRA Jeremy Smith, USAF/Combined Military Service Digital Photographic FilesRemoving “forever” chemicals from drinking water is not an easy task. -
2020 and 2016 are virtually tied for the hottest year on record. That means more powerful hurricanes, more intense wildfires, less ice and longer heat waves.
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The report for the Environmental Defense Fund tallies potential costs of climate change over the next 20 to 30 years in eight areas, including real estate, health and safety, tourism and various industrial sectors.
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Environmental Protection Agency contractors will be back in Davidson Wednesday for more soil tests at homes near an old asbestos mill. They're trying to see if any additional properties are contaminated with asbestos from the former Carolina Asbestos factory near downtown.
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Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones has named Sarah Hazel permanently to the job of overseeing the city's sustainability efforts.
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Advocates for public transportation are calling on Congress to approve emergency aid for local public transit systems nationwide and to boost long-term funding for transit, including an expanded bus and train network around Charlotte.
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A district inside a national park in western North Carolina has approved a project which will help sustain and expand its trail system. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the Pisgah National Forest's Grandfather Ranger District approved the Mortimer Trails Project this week.
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State utility regulators have given Duke Energy partial approval for a pilot program to install electric vehicle charging stations across the state.
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Seventy-six miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina will be rebuilt thanks to funding Congress approved this past summer. The parkway is among a series of deferred maintenance projects funded under the Great American Outdoors Act signed by President Trump.
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Charleston, South Carolina has remained relatively unscathed this hurricane season. That means more time to mull a $1.75 billion proposal by the Army Corps of Engineers that features a sea wall along the city's peninsula to protect it from deadly storm surge during hurricanes.
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Several big farm groups, traditionally hostile to environmental regulations, are now working with environmental advocates in support of farmer-friendly actions to reduce carbon emissions.
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Colonial Pipeline says it still doesn't know how much gasoline spilled when one of its pipes burst at a Huntersville nature preserve in August. And the company still can't say how long it will take to clean up the largest gasoline spill in North Carolina.
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