North Carolina enacted a rare energy law in the South in 2021 that directed power plant emissions be sharply reduced.

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene downed power lines and washed out roads all over North Carolina’s mountains, the roar of gas-powered generators is both unpleasant and essential.

Nearly 700,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. Southeast are still without power more than a week after Hurricane Helene blew through the region.

The South Carolina Senate has started its homework assignment of coming up with a comprehensive bill to guide energy policy in a rapidly growing state and amid a quickly changing power-generation world.

Authorities say a driver tried to crash through the exit gates of a South Carolina nuclear plant about an hour after security asked the same car to leave when it tried to enter.

A lesser-known form of solar power that has several advantages over the traditional kind is gaining traction.

Duke Energy says it has completed repairs on substation equipment damaged in shootings over the weekend and that it's restored power to all but a fraction of the thousands of customers who lost electricity in a central North Carolina county.

Duke Energy says it expects to be able to restore power by Wednesday night to a county where electric substations were attacked by gunfire.

Investigators believe a shooting that damaged power substations in North Carolina was a crime.

A milestone energy bill that targets sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions from North Carolina power plants has become law.

Family members of the five people who drowned in the Dan River in June have filed a lawsuit against Duke Energy.

One of four survivors of a deadly tubing accident said by the time her family saw the dam on the Dan River, it was too late.

A search has resumed for two missing tubers on a North Carolina river after three others were found dead and four were pulled from the water.

More than 50 of the largest U.S. companies paid nothing in federal income taxes last year, even though they reported big pretax profits as a group.

This Sept. 14, 2020 photo shows shows a Duke Energy natural gas-fired electric power plant on Sutton Lake in Wilmington, N.C. It went online in 2013 and replaced a coal-fired plant that had polluted the lake with coal ash. It would provide a source of steam to generate electricity and a place to cool hot water from an adjacent coal-fired plant. Sutton Lake became popular with boaters and anglers, yielding bass, crappie, bluegill and other panfish. But environmental groups challenging the Trump rule in court say it opens up reservoirs like Sutton Lake to similar abuse.

Supporters and critics of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) are reacting after Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced they were cancelling the project on Sunday. Dominion Energy and Duke Energy pulled the plug on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The decision is a blow to Richmond-based Dominion Energy and Duke Energy out of North Carolina, which jointly led the project. This project was going to be developed in a manner that was environmentally safe and economically sound.Another pipeline in Virgina, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, is still on track to be finished by 2021. MVP will play a critical role in meeting the growing demand for a reliable, affordable, clean-burning source of domestic energy in the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States.

AP Dominion Energy and Duke Energy today announced the cancelation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) due to ongoing delays and increasing cost uncertainty which threatens the economic viability of the project. Despite last months overwhelming 7-2 victory at the United States Supreme Court, which vindicated the project and decisions made by permitting agencies, recent developments have created an unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays for ACP. Specifically, the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Montana overturning long-standing federal permit authority for waterbody and wetland crossings (Nationwide Permit 12), followed by a Ninth Circuit ruling on May 28 indicating an appeal is not likely to be successful, are new and serious challenges. According to the Associated Press, the project is delayed until 2021.

In the face of those efforts to rescue coal country, America's aging fleet of coal-fired power plants continues to shrink. Approximately 15% of America's coal fleet has been retired since 2017, the year Trump took office, according to Platts. To get there, PSEG is retiring coal plants, investing heavily in offshore wind and fighting to keep nuclear plants alive. Those trends will only amplify the pain in America's coal country, where employment has plunged. Carbon tax would speed coal's demiseAnother problem for coal: America's existing coal plants are very old, and new ones aren't getting built.

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