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David Boraks is a veteran North Carolina journalist who covers housing, energy and the environment, transportation, business and other topics for WFAE.
From 2006 to 2015, David published the online community news network DavidsonNews.net and CorneliusNews.net and also worked as a weekend host at WFAE. He has been an editor and reporter at The Charlotte Observer, American Banker, The China News in Taipei, The Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle, and The Hartford Courant, among others. He was the Batten Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Davidson College in 2013.
Awards and fellowships have included the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism in Telecommunications, N.C. Information Technology Association Media Award, Davidson College Sullivan Community Service Award, and Annenberg/Knight Block-by-Block News Entrepreneur fellowship. David has a bachelor's degree in history from Cornell University and a master's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.
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A South Carolina tech company that connects homeowners with rooftop solar installers says it's moving its headquarters to Charlotte's South End. Palmetto is currently based in Charleston, South Carolina. -
A new climate change preparedness study has found that the greatest risks to Duke Energy's electrical transmission and distribution system by 2050 will be extreme heat and flooding, mainly at substations.
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Electric vehicles and renewable energy have gotten most of the attention as the city of Charlotte works to fight climate change. Other tactics aren't so visible — like cool roofs and porous pavement, known as smart surfaces.
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"Pseudoscience" is how North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson described climate science during a campaign speech in Hickory in July. Ryan Emanuel, who is both a Lumbee and a climate scientist at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, called Robinson's "pseudoscience" remark "a completely ridiculous claim."
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If you think you're seeing more electric cars on roads around North Carolina and the Southeast, you're right. A new report says EV sales grew 50% from last July through this June in the region's six states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
