David Boraks
David Boraks previously covered climate change for WFAE. He also had covered housing and homelessness, energy and the environment, transportation, and business.
From 2006 to 2015, David published the online community news network DavidsonNews.net and CorneliusNews.net and also worked as a weekend host at WFAE. He has been an editor and reporter at The Charlotte Observer, American Banker, The China News in Taipei, The Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle, and The Hartford Courant, among others. He was the Batten Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Davidson College in 2013.
David's 2021 project "Asbestos Town" won Best Radio Documentary of 2021 from the Society of Professional Journalists. Other awards and fellowships have included the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism in Telecommunications, N.C. Information Technology Association Media Award, Davidson College Sullivan Community Service Award, and Annenberg/Knight Block-by-Block News Entrepreneur fellowship. David has a bachelor's degree in history from Cornell University and a master's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.
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Duke Energy's five-year solar rebate program paid out $45 million, but left many on the waiting listDuke Energy's now-ended five-year solar rebate program paid out about $45 million between 2018 and the final round of rebates in January. The company says more than 2,800 customers remain on the waiting list in case projects don't get done, but few — if any — will get rebates.
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A top adviser to President Joe Biden says two grants totaling $1.1 million will help the city of Charlotte maintain its tree canopy in underserved areas.
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State and local officials have been trying to figure out what to do about the growing number of threatened beachfront houses on North Carolina's Atlantic coast. The problem is there's no designated pool of money to demolish or move the houses. Now the National Park Service is stepping in to help.
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Federal climate scientists say a strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is expected to bring a warmer, wetter winter to North Carolina.
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Environmental groups are asking the North Carolina Court of Appeals to overturn Duke Energy's new rates and rules for residential rooftop solar panels that took effect Oct. 1.
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Are carbon offsets worth the money? It's a question not only for corporate buyers but also for consumers, as we're being invited regularly now to purchase offsets to make up for the carbon emissions in our daily activities.
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The U.S. Department of Energy and the White House on Friday announced $7 billion in funding for seven regional clean hydrogen hubs to speed up the development of clean hydrogen for energy, industry and transportation. Missing from the list was the proposed Southeast Hydrogen Hub that included Charlotte-based Duke Energy, the Tennessee Valley Authority and Atlanta-based Southern Company.
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In the fight against global warming, markets have emerged in recent years for buying and selling what are known as carbon offsets. The money helps pay for projects like tree planting or solar farms that remove or reduce carbon emissions. Sounds good, right? But there are lots of questions whether offsets do what they say they do. WFAE climate reporter David Boraks takes a look at how they're being used in the Carolinas, and how users and critics are thinking about them.
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North Carolina lawmakers on Tuesday overrode vetoes of two bills Gov. Roy Cooper had said would hurt the state's environmental and climate efforts.
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Federal regulators say about 13% of electrical generating capacity on the East Coast failed during last December's Winter Storm Elliott, triggering blackouts such as those that hit Duke Energy customers in North Carolina on Christmas Eve. That's among the findings in a new report.