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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The recent cancellation of a next-generation nuclear reactor project in Idaho has prompted concern about the technology's future. But Duke Energy says the setback won't affect its plans in North Carolina.
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A group of Duke Energy business customers has withdrawn its challenge to a low-income customer assistance program that requires them to contribute $1.70 a month per account.
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With a little over a month to go, it appears that 2023 will be the Earth's warmest year on record. The past 12-month period from last November to this October already ranks as the hottest, with global temperatures averaging more than 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, according to the science and news organization Climate Central.
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When the Danish wind developer Orsted last week announced it was canceling two New Jersey offshore wind projects, it set off a bit of a panic over the industry's fate. Headlines called it a threat to the Biden administration's energy agenda and a "moment of reckoning" for the U.S. offshore wind industry.
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Wood pellet maker Enviva reported a big quarterly loss Thursday, replaced its CEO and says it's at risk of failing because of collapsing prices and debt.
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Piedmont Lithium reported its first revenues and profits Tuesday thanks to shipments from its mine partnership in Quebec. But the Belmont, N.C.-based company told investors it's still waiting for permits and financing to open its planned lithium mine in northern Gaston County.
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The final round of federally funded grants through the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) Affordable Housing Development Fund is going to single-family and multi-family housing developments in Bladen, Duplin, Jones, Pamlico, Pender and Scotland counties.
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A new poll by the Pew Research Center found that 63% of U.S. adults surveyed believe that harm from climate change will get worse during their lifetimes. And 71% say climate change is already harming people in the U.S.
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Duke Energy executives say the company is now in a "new era" after it sold off its two unregulated commercial renewable energy businesses last month. Officials say that leaves Charlotte-based Duke as a fully regulated company poised to grow revenues and profits.
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Some of Duke Energy’s big industrial customers are fighting the utility's plans to subsidize bills for poor customers, saying they shouldn't have to help pay for it. Consumer advocates say the cost is minimal and could cut losses on unpaid bills.