transportation
How fossil fuels won round one of North Carolina’s Volkswagen settlement payout
Legislative politics, industry influence, and financial pressures from an aging bus fleet helped shape spending.
Opinion
Commentary: Unfavorable solar policies drive investment, jobs out of N.C. Let’s turn that around
We need to shift our policy environment so that we can once again take a leading role in a market that will only become larger in the years to come, writes energy policy professor Elizabeth Sasser.
Virginia
No longer in Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s path, landowners consider next steps
After a half-decade fight over pipeline easements, property owners look to recoup legal costs and property values.
North Carolina
In North Carolina, clean energy groups reach truce on Duke Energy grid plan
Groups say they will drop their opposition to half the Duke Energy’s grid improvement plan if the utility agrees to consider climate change in future grid planning.
electric vehicles
North Carolina lawmakers’ dispute over VW funds is finally settled — for now
After a three-year political struggle over spending authority, state lawmakers approved a plan with little fanfare.