RALEIGH, North Carolina, Dec. 9 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2023: President Biden and US Department of Transportation officials announced today that North Carolina will receive a $1.09 billion discretionary federal grant to design and build the first segment of the S-Line, a high-performance passenger rail line to better connect North Carolina and Virginia, and rural and urban communities in North Carolina. "This is great news and undersco  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Dec. 8 (TNSres) -- Wake Forest University issued the following news wrap up entitled "WFU in the News": FEATURED NEWS Former coal towns get money for clean-energy factories (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/climate/clean-energy-funding-coal-communities.html) By Hiroko Tabuchi | The New York Times Less than a quarter of a percent of workers who left a fossil fuel job in West Virginia moved onto a job in renewable energy, said economics professor Mark Curtis. F  more