North Carolina company among nation’s biggest spenders on combating clean...
The good folks at Environment North Carolina and Environment America are out with a new report that flags one of North Carolina’s biggest industrial polluters for polluting our national policy debate...
View ArticleNew McCrory administration permits for Duke Energy include a massive loophole
The Fayetteville Observer has a fine editorial this morning taking the McCrory administration to task for the latest lame plan to deal with coal ash pollution and the ongoing discharges into our...
View ArticleFracking becomes legal in NC today. Now what?
The Fayetteville Observer gets it right this morning with this editorial on the future of fracking in North Carolina — which becomes legal in the state today. After noting how the plummeting price of...
View ArticleWhere the big-time pollution threat lurks in NC
The debate over fracking in North Carolina and the threat it poses to the long-term well-being of humans and the environment in certain parts of the state is obviously hugely important. But there’s a...
View ArticleRSVP today for luncheon on offshore drilling
Please join us for a very special Crucial Conversation luncheon in Raleigh on Tuesday, April 7: Can this coastline be saved? Offshore drilling and what it will likely mean for North Carolina’s beaches...
View ArticleMonday deadline looms for public comments on offshore drilling
Environmental organizations are doubling down on efforts to get concerned citizens to comment on the federal government’s proposed plan to open the coast of North Carolina to offshore oil and gas...
View ArticleLatest Duke coal ash news is a powerful Earth Day reminder
We humans have a way of ignoring unpleasant facts as long as we can keep them out of sight — especially when paying attention would require us to change (and maybe even sacrifice some small measure of...
View ArticleBusy week at General Assembly poised to get off to lousy start with...
This Thursday is “Crossover Day” at the General Assembly — a self-imposed deadline used by lawmakers to weed out some of the hundreds of bills that have been introduced so far this year. Without going...
View ArticleBye, bye buffers: Former DENR official explains what demise of water...
Former state environmental official and current Appalachian Voices advocate Amy Adams (whose coal ash-covered hand graced hundreds of articles in the aftermath of the Dan River disaster last year) has...
View ArticleFilm that sounds the alarm about fracking is coming to a town near you
This spring, organizations across North Carolina are joining together to host “Fracking Stories,” a statewide screening tour of six short documentaries that explore the public health and environmental...
View ArticleThe “pave paradise” crowd strikes again, unveils another bill to decimate...
The hits (and slashes and burns) to North Carolina’s ever-more-fragile natural environment just keep on a comin’ at the North Carolina General Assembly. Yesterday morning, while few people were...
View ArticleEditorial: Senate deregulation bill is “Polluter Protection Act”
In case you missed it, an editorial in this morning’s Fayetteville Observer rightfully blasted the state Senate’s latest outrageous effort to gut state environmental regulations: Some cynics are...
View ArticleWilmington City Council votes unanimously to oppose McCrory’s offshore oil...
Not that the powers that be in Raleigh appear terribly concerned about what the majority of people living along the North Carolina coast think, but another coastal community has spoken up loudly and...
View ArticleVolkswagen scandal highlights the folly of Polluter Protection Act’s...
The biggest scandal right now in the world of industry involves the giant German manufacturer Volkswagen, which has now admitted to installing software in its vehicles to provide false emission tests...
View ArticleDisastrous “Polluter Protection Act” heads to Gov. McCrory; Advocates call...
A few of the worst last-minute proposals advanced during last night’s kangaroo sessions of the North Carolina House and Senate failed, mercifully, to win final approval prior to the 4:00 a.m. final...
View ArticleMcCrory aptly signs Polluter Protection Act late Friday when no one was watching
You’d think if he was going to sign a bill that’s been widely condemned in editorials across the state and decried by every major environmental organization in North Carolina, he’d at least have the...
View ArticleReport: State just spinning its wheels with “solar bees” in Jordan Lake
Here’s some shocking news: the big eggbeaters that North Carolina’s political leaders had touted as an alternative to the costly and time consuming (but proven) pollution control methods that had been...
View ArticleACT Against Coal Ash: Citizens group demands clean-up, responds to...
A statewide citizens group formed last year to demand stronger state environmental protection efforts to combat coal ash pollution is decrying the new state rankings attached to the state’s coal ash...
View ArticleAre Duke Energy and the McCrory administration committing a human rights...
Some victims of Duke Energy’s coal ash pollution gathered with a group of advocates and activists in front of the North Carolina Governor’s mansion this morning. Their message to Gov. Pat McCrory (who...
View ArticleFlint water crisis: A model for conservative privatizers?
It’s an open secret that many modern American conservatives want, as one of their ideological leaders put it with horrific and violent imagery a few years back, to shrink government “down to the size...
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