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Settlement Reached in Largest U.S. Coal Ash Cleanup

January 2, 2020 admin cleanup, Coal, coal ash, deq, duke energy, Legal & Regulatory, news, North Carolina

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:14:33 +0000

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Duke Energy will save about $1.5 billion in coal ash cleanup costs under a settlement between the utility and environmental and other groups announced Jan. 2 by North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The DEQ said Duke Energy will need to excavate about 80 million tons of coal ash currently stored in basins at […]

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Siemens Delivers World’s First HL-Class Gas Turbine to North Carolina Site

November 27, 2019 admin Business, duke energy, Gas, gas turbine, hl-class, lincoln county combustion turbine station, news, North Carolina, Plant Design, siemens, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:57:52 +0000

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Siemens has delivered its first-ever HL-class gas turbine to Duke Energy’s Lincoln County Combustion Turbine generation station, located near Denver, North Carolina. The HL-class gas turbine was derived from proven Siemens H-class technology in what the company calls “an evolutionary development step.” The advanced air-cooled gas turbine is a next-generation design that uses a series […]

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Black Farmers Were Driven From Their Land for Decades. Now, Some Are Reclaiming It.

November 25, 2019 admin African-American, Black, farming, North Carolina, organic, racial justice

Credit to Author: Milena Mikael-Debass| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 13:16:09 +0000

“They’re looking for ways to live out their values. And returning to the land is one dramatic way that they can do that.”

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These 5 States Are the Next Battlegrounds in the Abortion Wars

October 22, 2019 admin abortion, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, roe v. wade, Scotus, Supreme Court, Women, Women’s Health

Credit to Author: Carter Sherman| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:18:45 +0000

Abortion rights groups are pouring tens of millions into these states to flip their legislatures in 2020.

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Toyota Introduces The New 2021 Mirai, But Without A Plan For A Fueling Network

October 10, 2019 admin 2021 toyota mirai, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen fueling stations, North Carolina, renewable hydrogen, toyota, toyota mirai

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 02:33:47 +0000

This week, Toyota pulled the wraps off the new 2021 Mirai, boasting an impressive 30% increase in range thanks to a new and improved fuel cell stack paired with slightly larger hydrogen storage tanks. The new tanks have a total of 122.4 liters of volume and can hold about 5 kilograms of hydrogen when full

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BMW i3 Is A Perfect Out-Of-Town EV, Smoothly Flowing Through Mountain Roads — BMW i3 vs. The Mountain (Video)

October 6, 2019 admin Appalachia, appalachian mountain, BMW, bmw i3, bmw i3 long-term review, bmw i3 mountains, bmw i3 reviews, bmw i3 rex, bmw i3 rex long-term review, bmw i3 rex mountains, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, COLORADO, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev road trips, North Carolina, tesla, tesla model 3, US

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 15:09:35 +0000

The Model 3 is the standout, Zen-of-zero-emissions electric vehicle that is meeting peoples hopes and wishes straight on. Even though I don’t have a Model 3, I’d agree with anyone singing Model 3 praises. I have ridden in one many times, and I’ve previously written about the expansive back seat experience in a Tesla Shuttle. The praise the Model 3 gets is well deserved

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i3 Arrives As The Sun Sets On Natural Blue Smoky Mountains

September 28, 2019 admin Appalachia, batteries, bmw i3, bmw i3 long-term review, bmw i3 rex, bmw i3 rex long-term review, bmw i3 rex reviews, bmw i3 road trips, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reviews, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev road trips, great smoky mountains national park, lithium-ion batteries, North Carolina, smoky mountains, United States

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:07:58 +0000

It was the final day of my long-distance travel in the BMW i3 from Southwest Florida to the Appalachians — my journey seeing the sights of 4 states out of the i3’s generous windows as I made my way from charger to charger

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Adventures In Anti-Renewables PR: North Carolina Duke Energy Solar Edition

September 13, 2019 admin air quality, charles and david koch, clean power, disinformation, duke energy, Fossil Fuels, HEALTH, heartland institute, institute for energy research, Media, media bias, natural gas, North Carolina, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, Solar energy, United States, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:00:49 +0000

A North State Journal article on Duke Energy and solar was an anti-renewables PR hit piece funded by anti-renewables fossil fuel industry money in an outlet that is a right-wing broadsheet that pretends to have journalist standards. Yet it pretended to be otherwise. That’s the anti-renewables disinformation campaign in a nutshell