David Boraks
David Boraks previously covered climate change for WFAE. He also had covered housing and homelessness, energy and the environment, transportation, and business.
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.
David's 2021 project "Asbestos Town" won Best Radio Documentary of 2021 from the Society of Professional Journalists. Other 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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As Duke Energy prepares to shut down and demolish its coal-fired Allen plant west of Charlotte, it's planning a new use for the site — huge batteries to store electricity generated elsewhere. -
Beaches in Dare County were closed this weekend after another house fell into the ocean in Rodanthe amid high waves from Hurricane Ernesto. The unoccupied two-story house collapsed Friday evening after years of erosion that left it in the middle of the public beach. Debris has been found up to 11 miles north. The National Park Service, which manages nearby Cape Hatteras National Seashore, says several other oceanfront structures nearby also have substantial damage. -
The giant wood pellet maker Enviva has filed for bankruptcy as it tries to stave off collapse from falling prices and heavy debts. -
Environmental groups argued at the state Court of Appeals Wednesday that North Carolina regulators erred when they approved new rules and rates for rooftop solar installations and that the changes hurt the state's solar industry. -
As David Boraks winds up his assignment as WFAE's climate reporter this month, he's thinking about what we're doing right. "Don't get me wrong, I'm still deeply concerned, and the outlook is hardly rosy. But the winds of change are strengthening." -
A man who sent two threatening emails to the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte in October has agreed to plead guilty in the case. -
Heavy rains this week have eased drought conditions across much of North Carolina, according to data released Thursday. -
It's been a big year for climate change news. 2023 will go down as the hottest year on record, clean energy development continued to grow, and the transition brought hundreds more clean-energy jobs to the Carolinas. This week, we take a look at some of the year's top stories on the climate beat. -
A year ago, during a Christmas Eve cold snap, a half-million electricity customers across the Carolinas had their power cut off for hours in a series of rolling blackouts. Could that happen again? -
Federal regulators on Tuesday gave developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline three more years to finish construction of an extension of the natural gas pipeline from Virginia into North Carolina.
