Environment

This week’s stifling heat has our bodies working overtime to stay cool, and for many residents, the high temperatures are also straining their financial health.

Dangerous heat continues across the Carolinas today, and it’s not just daytime heat that’s taking a toll. Warmer nights may also be putting people’s health at risk.

Charlotte experienced near record-breaking high temperatures this past holiday weekend. But where you live determines a lot about just how hot it gets.

Gaston County purchased 562 undeveloped acres along Lake Wylie in Belmont for a future public park. The goal is to increase public access to the lake and preserve land that directly contributes to water and habitat quality.

President Trump’s campaign against wind energy in North Carolina advanced this week. Three months after French-owned TotalEnergies relinquished its lease off the Carolina Coast, Duke Energy reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of the Interior to end the utility’s offshore wind lease off the coast of Wilmington.

State regulators are drafting two air quality permits for Duke Energy and Amazon Data Services. Amazon plans to build its $10 billion Energy Way Tech Campus data center in Hamlet in Richmond County, with some help from the utility.

The dog days of summer are barking at the door. Meteorologists forecast a dangerous heat wave next week that could culminate in a sizzling Fourth of July.

The absence might bar Commissioner Donald van der Vaart from ruling in a potentially landmark decision that will shape the state’s grid over the coming years.

Duke Energy president Harry Sideris previously discussed the company’s collaboration with local governments to attract data centers to its service territories in both Carolinas.

Amid growing pushback over data centers and rising utility bills, consumer advocates are urging state regulators to create new rates for large electricity users.