Energy and Environment
June 2, 2009 -
Thomas Berry, a Catholic priest and self-described "Earth scholar," passed away June 1 in Greensboro, N.C., where he was born in 1914. He was 94 years old.
May 28, 2009 -
Jim Stephenson, the policy director of the North Carolina Coastal Federation, died early today of an apparent stroke or heart attack. He was 57.
May 26, 2009 -
Seven people were arrested for trespassing Sunday during a nonviolent protest against a Massey Energy subsidiary's plans to blast just 100 feet away from a massive dam holding back billions of gallons of toxic coal waste in the mountains of West Virginia.
May 22, 2009 -
A proposal to mine uranium in south-central Virginia advanced this week when a key state body approved a study of the matter. The targeted site is in Virginia's Pittsylvania County just north of the city of Danville and close to the border with North Carolina's Rockingham and Caswell counties.