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Former Deal Buick site was location of George Pack’s ‘lost’ Merrimon Avenue mansion
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Comments: 0 Views: 104UNCA hosts “conversations with craftspeople” lecture series
Comments: 0 Views: 124Asheville area summer breaks the record: hottest in 107 years
Comments: 0 Views: 875th annual gathering set for Asheville bloggers, social media folks
Comments: 0 Views: 81USA Today rates Buncombe’s Navitat zipline one of US’s 10 best
Comments: 0 Views: 258EPA holds series of hearings on proposal to regulate coal ash disposal
Comments: 0 Views: 155Progress Energy Carolinas today announced that by the end of 2017, the company intends to permanently shut down all of its remaining N.C. coal-fired power plants that do not have flue-gas desulfurization controls (scrubbers).
In a report filed with the N.C. Utilities Commission today, the utility outlined its plan to close a total of 11 coal-fired units, totaling nearly 1,500 megawatts (MW) at four sites in the state…
[plants in Wilmington, Moncure, Lumberton & Goldsboro]
The commitment represents about 30 percent of the company’s coal-fired power generation fleet in North Carolina.
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