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It's been five years since the Charlotte City Council set a goal of eliminating the use of fossil fuels in city vehicles and buildings by the end of this decade. The city is inching toward that, by adding electric vehicles and rooftop solar panels, improving energy efficiency and planning two solar farms. But officials acknowledge they won't make it, and local climate activists are pushing back.
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The EPA has awarded $53 million in grants for air quality testing in communities around the country, including three in North Carolina. The money will go to areas where pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic have led to environmental and health disparities.
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Federal climate scientists say the global average temperature continued an upward trend in 2021, adding fresh data for arguments that humans need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. WFAE's climate reporter David Boraks talked with North Carolina and national experts.
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In this two-part series "The Wood Energy Dilemma," reporters from WFAE and WUNC visit communities feeding the world’s appetite for wood energy.
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European countries are importing more and more wood pellets from plants across the U.S. South to be burned for energy in place of coal. In this installment of The Wood Energy Dilemma, we visit the Enviva plant in North Carolina's Northampton County.
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North Carolina environmental group Clean Air Carolina is relaunching and rebranding as CleanAIRE NC to focus on climate change and environmental justice.