Environmental

Colonial Pipeline will pay almost $5 million for a gasoline spill that occurred in August 2020 outside of Charlotte. Over a million gallons of petroleum were spilled in Oehler Nature Preserve.

Cinematographer Luc Forsyth documents the back-breaking manual labor and niche community of tree planting.

The facility was going to produce and export wood pellets for other countries to burn for energy. Local advocates said the plant would've brought more pollution to the area.

A Vietnamese automaker has chosen to open its first U.S. plant in Chatham County and is planning to pump out as many as 150,000 electric vehicles starting in 2024.

Recreational waters are currently tested for fecal coliform. Some critics say that's an outdated policy, and adopting E. coli standards will help ensure the safety of people using these waters.

The inventor of gross domestic product — the sum of all goods and services of a particular nation — warned that it was not a good measurement of human…