Professor Rebecca Crouch took a deep breath and blew until she felt light-headed and dizzy. She quickly clamped the balloon shut and inhaled to replenish her lungs with air. Using a ruler, she measured the balloon’s diameter at 16 centimeters, which is about 2200...
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Duke Energy is under close scrutiny for a recently proposed rate hike to cover the costs of coal ash leaching and associated environmental remediation, grid modernization, and new gas plants. A number of advocacy groups, expert testimony on behalf of corporations Apple, Facebook, and Google, as well as various editorial pieces, have strongly criticized this proposition. The NC Utilities Commission should deny this request for a number of reasons.
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Clean Air Carolina has partnered with Novant Health and Carolinas HealthCare System to implement clean construction practices at their future facilities. The two medical systems joined together to improve air quality on their construction sites by requiring the use of...
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ACTION ALERT: Duke Energy has cranked up the heat on Governor Cooper’s administration to approve the destructive fracked-gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline by the end of THIS WEEK!! Duke and its corporate partner in the ACP, Dominion Energy, are pushing hard to build the...
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Citizen Scientist Blog William H. Schlesinger is one of the nation’s leading ecologists and earth scientists and a passionate advocate for translating science for lay audiences. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has served as dean of the Nicholas School...
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BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?
Special Screening and Discussion
Friday, January 19, 2018
6:30 to 8:30 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte
2018 Airkeeper Awards Nominations
Submit by midnight, February 8, 2018
The annual Airkeeper Awards given by Clean Air Carolina recognize individuals and organizations working to improve air quality in North Carolina.
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2018 NC BREATHE conference
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Bowman Gray Center for Medical Education
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem
PARTICLE FALLS Winston-Salem
February 22 – March 24, 2018
UNC School of the Arts Stevens Center
405 4th St NW
Winston-Salem
If you haven’t heard yet, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is not a done deal in North Carolina. Recently, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy spoke of the likelihood that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) will soon begin pumping fracked shale gas from West Virginia and points...
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