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Elizabeth Ouzts, a former director of communications for Environment America, is a freelance writer based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It’s unclear whether a powerful lawmaker will yet seize on a new state study to try to cement a statewide wind moratorium — in part because the analysis isn’t public, and just one civilian has been authorized to see its results.
The state’s Building Code Council doesn’t plan to appeal a ruling that it broke the law when it weakened planned changes to the state’s residential energy conservation code.
A provision in North Carolina’s new budget law threatens to delay and possibly disqualify the state from its $92 million portion of the Volkswagen emissions settlement.
North Carolina clean energy advocates are keeping a watchful eye on a battle over net metering underway in South Carolina.
Drilling foes are pressing the Trump administration to heed its own research and drop plans to open virtually every U.S. water to oil and gas development.