Tech companies' arrival brought the possibility of more clean energy to the Southeast. Today, their flip-flopping is threatening that future.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Amtrak carried a record number of passengers in Virginia in 2025, according to the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority. Nearly 1.5 million people climbed aboard one of the…

Virginia’s landmark return to a regional carbon cutting program promises to protect more people across the state from pollution and the worst effects of climate change, but this victory didn’t come wi...

For the first time, a new way that allows both wildlife and people to cross safely together is coming to North Carolina.

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This article was updated April, 14, 2026 to reflect new litigation. Just south of the Tennessee-Mississippi state line sits dozens of unpermitted gas turbines that power xAI’s Colossus 2 data center w...

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Catherine Coleman Flowers is a powerful voice in the movement for environmental justice; someone whose work reminds us that the fight for a healthy environment is inseparable from the fight for human ...

TotalEnergies and the U.S. Dept. of the Interior signed an agreement to end two offshore wind leases — one in North Carolina and one in New York.

Sustain Charlotte invites architects, artists, students, and residents to imagine new possibilities for the I-77 corridor. Submit your vision for a more connected and vibrant Charlotte.

Join NC Attorney General Josh Stein, the Young Lawyers Division of the NC Bar Association and Feeding The Carolinas for the NC Legal Feeding Frenzy. Official site.

A new multimedia project reveals how environmental racism traces directly back to plantation-era land use—and why Black communities are still paying the price.

Data centers are dividing NC communities. What's at stake and who pays the cost?

As more and more data centers crop up throughout Georgia and the Southeast, a recent study finds they may need less energy than the industry and utilities have been predicting. That could have substantial implications for energy bills and the planet.

The State Corporation Commission reasserted its approval of Dominion Energy’s Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center (CERC).

Just south of the Tennessee-Mississippi state line sits dozens of unpermitted gas turbines that power xAI’s Colossus 2 data center while releasing smog-forming pollution, soot, and hazardous chemicals...

Jo and Joy Banner envision a time, not too distant from now, when travelers visiting their small town along the Mississippi River don’t gawk at the concentration of polluting petrochemical plants near...

We’re proud to be part of the group of nonprofits and states that challenged the Trump administration’s unlawful freeze of a $5 billion federal initiative to build reliable, high-speed electric vehicl...

There’s nothing sanitary about the “sanitary sewer overflows” plaguing Charleston.    Sometimes, all it takes is routine rainfall for sewage to flow into the area’s streets, rivers, and residences, pu...

Every weekday morning in the small Georgia town of Madison, busy parents hurry their kids into a cheerful daycare just outside downtown. Just a mile away, down a quiet road off the bypass, sits an unr...

For tens of thousands of people in Robeson County, turning on the tap should not come with fear.  Yet today, the county is knowingly supplying drinking water contaminated with unsafe levels of toxic PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals.” These super d...

Thousands have signed a petition opposing a proposed data center in Stokes County.