🏭 UNC is applying for an air permit that would allow it to experiment with using pellets made of paper and plastic scraps instead of coal at its Chapel Hill power plant. (News & Observer 🔒)
Environmental groups have pushed back on the proposal for still being carbon-intensive and adding pollutants from plastic.
🌳The Dix Park Conservancy expects to pay its next CEO more than $225,000 per year. The conservancy's outgoing CEO, Janet Cowell, is running for mayor. (Triangle Business Journal🔒)
🗳️ North Carolina will begin sending out mail ballots for November's election to voters who request them starting Sept. 6. (Spectrum News)
🌀 This year's hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean has been quieter than expected for several reasons — some structural and clear, others more sneaky. (Axios)
🗳️ RFK Jr. is suing the state of North Carolina to get off the state's ballots, arguing he met the deadline to request to do so. (WRAL)
