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North Carolina: Coal Ash Leak Is Diverted but Not Contained
2014-02-08 04:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Duke Energy said Friday that it was diverting the flow of coal ash away from the Dan River, but the company could not yet declare the huge spill fully contained nearly a week after it was discovered. Meghan Musgrave, a company spokeswoman, said that engineers at the Dan River Steam Station had designed a containment system that is capturing nearly all of the toxic runoff and pumping it back into a storage basin. Duke says up to 82,000 tons of coal ash mixed with 27 million gallons of contaminated...
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Fracking in Western North Carolina? Unlikely but still unsettling
2014-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Citizen-Times: Just the mere mention of the word gets people riled up. Fracking. Technically called hydraulic fracturing, the chemical-intense method of extracting natural gas from deep rock grabs peoples attention, especially here in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. And especially when a high-ranking N.C. Department of Environment & Natural Resources official mentions at a public meeting a possible basin, including natural gas, in WNC. Several of you good readers have asked me why...
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Less funding for textbooks in North Carolina puts the squeeze on some parents
2013-12-17 22:38:00| American School & University
Instead of having books provided by schools, some students have to have their parents buy books for them Schoolhouse Beat read more
EREF Research Project Review Event at North Carolina State University
2013-12-17 16:23:00| Waste Age
Highlights from the EREF-funded research conducted by the University of Nebraska and North Carolina State University. read more
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North Carolina School District Refreshes Gymnasium with LED Lighting from Acuity Brands
2013-12-11 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Surry County School District (N.C.) improves gymnasium lighting quality and saves money with new energy-efficient LED luminaires from Acuity Brands.<br /> <br /> ATLANTA -- Surry County School District (N.C.) projects annual savings of nearly $1,350 with new Lithonia Lighting® IBH low bay LED luminaires from Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI). Ten IBH low bay LED luminaires improved foot-candle levels in Dobson Elementary School’s 5,400 square-foot gymnasium by more than 50 percent. The ...This story is related to the following:LED Lights |
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