NCLCV In the News
May 3, 2013
Charlotte Business Journal
The N.C. League of Conservation Voters says more than 1,730 bills have been introduced this session, The organization is tracking about 5% of them because of some impact on the environment.
May 3, 2013
Charlotte Business Journal
Dan Crawford, director of governmental relations for the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters, says the state Chamber of Commerce and industry in general has a lot of influence on state legislators, “but only because of philosophical leanings of members.” “Some of it is just ideological,” Crawford says of the lawmakers.
Feb 21, 2013
Associated Press
"We do think this process needs to slow down a little bit,'" Dan Crawford with the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters told the committee earlier this week.
Feb 20, 2013
News & Observer
U.S. Rep. David Price, D-Chapel Hill, and former Democratic Rep. Brad Miller of Raleigh got high marks for their legislative efforts from the N.C. League of Conservation Voters.
Feb 20, 2013
Lumina News
“The majority party wants to allow corporate special interests to write their own rules without public input,” Dan Crawford, the league’s governmental relations director, stated in a Feb. 5 news release.
Feb 20, 2013
Wilmington Star News
The NC League of Conservation Voters released its National Environmental Scorecard, which rates how federal lawmakers voted on a range of issues from clean energy to land and wildlife conservation.
Feb 19, 2013
WRAL
Relaxing the regulation of fracking wastewater could put the state's water supply at risk. Dan Crawford with the North Carolina League of Conservation agreed, calling the bill "a slap in the face" after last year's legislation. "Please think about the process and slow down and make sure we get it right," Crawford said. "One ground well, one water source contaminated is one too many."
Feb 14, 2013
DC Bureau
“Before we do anything that’s going to potentially harm the drinking water in North Carolina, we want to make sure it’s been studied thoroughly and that people with a lot of letters after their names who have made a career out of studying ground water contamination say this can be done in North Carolina,” Crawford says. “We want to make sure we have some better answers, not just, ‘Hell yea, drill, Baby, drill.’”
Feb 13, 2013
Independent Weekly
Duke Energy has applied to the commission to jack up electric rates for residential customers by as much as 14 percent. As the usually restrained N.C. League of Conservation Voters noted acidly: "[The] Duke rate hike request can be decided by the new Utilities Commission entirely appointed by Duke's career employee, Gov. Pat McCrory."
Feb 8, 2013
Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem City Council member Dan Besse (representing NCLCV) was among a group of folks on Friday who raised objections publicly to a bill passed in the N.C. Senate that would fire the members of several key regulatory and policy boards.
Feb 6, 2013
News & Observer
The legislation surfaced unexpectedly in the Senate Rules Committee attached to an innocuous bill eliminating certain boards and commissions for efficiencies. Environmental groups were appalled at Tuesday’s development.
Feb 5, 2013
Charlotte Business Journal
The Senate Rules Committee took a fairly innocuous bill introduced last week, titled “An Act to Eliminate Obsolete Boards and Commissions,” and turned it into a proposal to dismiss the sitting members of several major boards and replace them all.
Feb 5, 2013
Coastal Review Online
“If nothing else,” noted the N.C. League of Conservation Voters in an email to members, “this approach would require regulatory agencies such as DENR to spend so much of their shrinking resources on trying to maintain minimal controls on water and air pollution that any affirmative effort to improve public health protections would be permanently choked off.”
Jan 29, 2013
Charlotte Observer
Dan Crawford, lobbyist for the League of Conservation Voters, said environmental groups expect to be playing a lot of defense this session. Crawford is ready to stay in “campaign mode” during the session – sending out mailers to legislators’ districts highlighting their positions.
Dec 10, 2012
Which Way NC
For environmental advocates, the toughest pill to swallow has been a loss of influence. Dan Crawford, director of government relations with environmental lobby group N.C. League of Conservation Voters, says that he and other environmental advocates feel shut out of the policy-making process in Raleigh.
Nov 7, 2012
Charlotte Business Journal
There were wins for conservation candidates. Of the 18 endorsed by the league for the state senate, 11 won. In the House, 32 of the 50 endorsed candidates won their races.
Nov 7, 2012
News & Observer
Of the 18 state Senate candidates it endorsed, 11 won. On the House side, 32 of the 50 hopefuls who received a NCLCV nod were victorious.
Oct 21, 2012
News & Views
Dan Crawford of the NC League of Conservation Voters was a guest on Policy Watch’s News & Views radio show to discuss the 2012 Legislative Scorecard.
Oct 6, 2012
Salisbury Post
For the 2012 short session, an advocacy group has given Rowan County's three state legislators its lowest possible score on environmental issues. N.C. League of Conservation Voters released its conservation scorecard Monday. The scorecard gives each state legislator a score of zero to 100 based on his or her votes on key environmental bills in the recent session of the General Assembly.
Oct 5, 2012
Charlotte Business Journal
The N.C. League of Conservation Voters issues periodic scorecards measuring lawmakers’ environmental records. This year’s short session earned failing grades for most state legislators.
