climate change

Carbontech now will begin taking funding applicants.

The report cites ongoing competition from cheap and cleaner-burning forms of energy, especially natural gas.

But economists said the National Climate Assessment's warning of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in global warming costs is pretty much on the money.

Limiting warming to 0.9 degrees from now means the world can keep "a semblance" of the ecosystems we have.

It comes a week after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed weakening a similar rule for emissions from public and private lands

By the end of this century, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects the ocean will rise more than 6 feet , enough to wash over wide sections of Topsail and other coastal islands with each high tide.

The warmer temperatures are also negatively impacting wildlife.

The agency's move is part of a broad Trump administration effort to undo President Barack Obama's legacy programs to fight climate change by cutting emissions from oil, gas and coal.

Government officials had argued unsuccessfully that climate change could be addressed at individual mines rather than across the region.

Over 200 people attended the hearing on the proposed regulations from President Barack Obama's administration.