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What if you came up with a way to help save the planet, but you were barred from using it? That's how a Boone inventor describes his 25-year fight to use the patented industrial composting system he devised in the 1970s.
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A public hearing is planned in Huntersville Thursday night on Colonial Pipeline's plans to process and release treated wastewater into a creek at the site of a massive 2020 gasoline spill.
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North Carolina environmental officials are facing lots of questions as they push to adopt rules by year's end that would speed sales of electric trucks and buses.
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State environmental regulators have issued an air-quality permit that will allow the world's largest wood pellet maker to expand a plant in eastern North Carolina.
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People who operate truck fleets will be on the front lines if North Carolina adopts rules this year to get more electric trucks and buses on state roads. In Charlotte Friday, state environmental officials heard some of their concerns about cost, evolving technology, and charging.
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State officials have delayed approving an expansion for a wood pellet plant in northeastern North Carolina while they consider concerns about how the plant affects the environment and nearby communities of color.
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North Carolina's environmental justice advisory board has called a special meeting in Raleigh Thursday night to discuss concerns about the fast-growing wood pellet industry.
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The world's largest producer of wood pellets wants to expand production at a plant in eastern North Carolina — and to emit more greenhouse gases.
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Most speakers at a public hearing in Gastonia on Monday night urged state environmental regulators to deny a permit for a lithium mine on about 1,500 acres in northern Gaston County. Their main concerns: air and water pollution and losing their quality of life.
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North Carolina environmental officials have scheduled two public hearings this week — one in person and one virtual — on Piedmont Lithium's application for a lithium mining permit in Gaston County.