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Starting this month, you may see a small fan boat near the shoreline of our local lakes. The Catawba-Wateree Water Management Group, through partnerships with the Lake Norman and Wylie Lake Commissions, North Carolina State University and Duke Energy, will spend the next several months working to prevent the growth of Lyngbya along the shore.
Every morning, when Jim Howie takes his cattle out to pasture, he’s following in family traditions that go back generations. His family’s owned this land just outside of downtown Waxhaw since the 1860s, and Howie says it’s always been used for farming.
A bill moving through the North Carolina Statehouse would greatly reduce tax incentives and make it harder to build utility-scale solar projects on farmland.
It takes the right amount of rain at the right time to ensure the wheat and other crops across Union County can produce enough good quality grain to make the growing season worthwhile.
Across North Carolina, late March and early April are typically the yellowest time of the year. Tree pollen is peaking and grass pollen season is just getting started, but research shows, across the country, that those seasons get getting longer and more intense.
Charlotte’s hydro-system is in a drought watch due to dry conditions.
A new bill was introduced in the North Carolina state house that would make it more difficult and more expensive to build big, utility-scale solar projects on agricultural land.
As several fires continue to burn across western North Carolina and South Carolina, the smoke is making its way east, bringing pollution and health risks along with it.
A bill moving through the South Carolina Statehouse could make it easier to build new nuclear and natural gas plants while adding more regulation to the solar industry.
During a massive rainstorm, water must make it through the Catawba River System from Lake James in the mountains to Lake Wateree, north of Columbia.
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