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Mayors from 24 cities across the Southeast are calling on Congress to adopt national clean energy standards. In a letter to Congress and the White House this week, the mayors say their goal is to speed the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles, and to create jobs.
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Business and residential customers of Piedmont Natural Gas could see their rates go up Nov. 1 under an agreement the company reached last week with customer groups and the state's utility consumer advocate.
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Non-essential city building lights in Raleigh will be shut off each night from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. through the end of November to help with bird migration.
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Global Witness, an international human rights group, says a record 227 grassroots environmental activists were killed in 2020. More than half were killed in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $78 million to help fund 22 projects across the Carolinas as part of a nationwide push to expand renewable energy and lower energy costs in rural areas.
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Duke Energy has officially put two of its buildings in uptown Charlotte on the market as part of a plan to cut its Charlotte office space by 60%.
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There has been a fivefold increase in the number of documented weather-related disasters in the last 50 years, driven in large part by climate change, a U.N. agency says.
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With the global pandemic still in the spotlight, more than 200 leading health journals say climate change is an even more urgent threat.
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Coast Guard teams have been dispatched to help determine the extent of the damage from the spill, which is situated roughly two miles off the Louisiana coast. Officials say the source remains unclear.
