David Boraks

A North Carolina Supreme Court ruling last week makes it easier for property owners who belong to homeowners associations to install rooftop solar panels.

President Joe Biden was in Greensboro Thursday to talk up his administration's efforts to rebuild the economy and address racial inequality.

The EPA says a former textile dyeing plant in South Carolina is among a dozen hazardous waste sites nationwide that have been added to the Superfund National Priorities List.

North Carolina's attorney general wants state regulators to delay approval of Duke Energy's proposed overhaul of rooftop solar rules and incentives.

A group of North Carolina solar installers is challenging Duke Energy's proposal to change the way rooftop solar owners are paid for electricity. They say it would hurt business and hamper the state's climate change efforts.

The latest round of applications for Duke Energy solar rebates in January was as competitive as ever and most customers came away empty handed — again. There's one more application period in July before the five-year program ends.

North Carolina candidates have been welcomed back into election offices to file for this year’s races following a delay that lasted over two months. But in Charlotte, Gov. Roy Cooper said the state needs an independent way to draw political districts.

The way North Carolina's big electric companies set rates is changing in a big way. State regulators adopted rules last week to carry out a new law that among other things lets utilities seek multi-year rate plans and earn performance-based bonuses.

Transportation has overtaken electricity generation as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in North Carolina. That's according to an updated greenhouse gas inventory published this week by state environmental regulators.

Environmental and citizens groups have filed a federal court appeal in hopes of stopping a half-billion-dollar bridge proposed at North Carolina's Outer Banks. And they're citing sea level rise as an argument.