Education & Resources: Landmarks of Environmental Justice
Education & Resources: Landmarks of Environmental Justice “When it comes to the environmental justice movement in the U.S., few states can lay claim to as many origin sites, case studies, and defining landmarks as North Carolina and South Carolina. The historical narratives of African Americans across both urban and rural landscapes in these two states […]
Legislative Watch: Hurricane Relief Approved
Legislative Watch: Hurricane Relief Approved Last week, unanimous approval of a limited but bipartisan appropriations bill for emergency hurricane recovery provided welcome relief from the General Assembly’s usual partisan power plays. In a one-day meeting that miraculously avoided most partisan rancor, legislators approved a $56.5 million down payment on Hurricane Florence recovery funding. Signing two […]
Climate Change Update: Warming Feeds Stronger Storms
Climate Change Update: Warming Feeds Stronger Storms Human-caused climate change is already producing greater damage from more powerful and frequent hurricanes. Researchers have the evidence. A new study reported in the journal Science predicted that the Atlantic coast will see a drastic increase in the average number of major hurricanes each year, from three per […]
Climate Change Update: Rebuild Smarter
Climate Change Update: Rebuild Smarter It’s called “climate adaptation”: acting to deal with the reality of ongoing climate change. Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper used the occasion of his Brunswick County visit to point out that rebuilding needs to be done in a way that recognizes the changed conditions. Stronger storms fed by rising global […]
Legislative Watch: Hurricane Edition
Legislative Watch: Hurricane Edition On Tuesday, legislators will return to Raleigh for their third “extra session” of 2018. This time, the purpose is to deal with hurricane recovery relief. But smart bettors are not taking any odds that this session will stick exclusively to unadulterated hurricane relief — not when there is so much more […]
Coast Watch: Florence Fallout Continues
Coast Watch: Florence Fallout Continues Even as Florence flood waters recede in the hardest-hit parts of North Carolina, awareness of the dangers from polluted waters continues to rise. On Friday, the Waterkeeper Alliance announced that sampling of the Neuse River near Duke Energy’s retired coal power plant outside Goldsboro found arsenic levels 18 times higher […]
Campaign Watch: Disaster May Affect Voting
Campaign Watch: Disaster May Affect Voting Because of Florence, our right to hold our elected officials accountable and choose who represents us is at stake this fall. If we can’t vote, our elected leaders can get away with bowing to polluters and their assaults on our right to clean air and water. In counties most heavily hit […]
Environomics: Renewable Resilience
Environomics: Renewable Resilience Reality has conspired to knock down yet another anti-environmental message from the Trump Administration. Solar power facilities have shown little damage from Hurricane Florence and its aftermath, and the single utility-scale wind power facility in North Carolina never stopped operating during the storm. Decentralized solar facilities in particular showed the value of […]
Conservation Action: Coal Ash and Hog Waste Flooding Our Rivers
Conservation Action: Coal Ash and Hog Waste Flooding Our Rivers We’re no longer talking about “potential” pollution from Hurricane Florence’s massive flooding. The real damage from environmental neglect is becoming plain—brought to our attention by citizen monitors. The Cape Fear River Watch, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Earthjustice were among the groups with volunteers and staff providing […]
2018 Green Tie Awards
2018 Representative of the Year – Deb Butler Rep. Butler is making Green Tie history: she is the first freshman legislator to win a Representative of the Year Award. After watching her dogged inquiry into GenX pollution in her district, it was an easy decision. She was the only member of the New Hanover and […]
