Administrative Watch: Toxic Injustice
Administrative Watch: Toxic Injustice A log fumigating operation proposed for a predominantly minority area could bring toxic injustice to the coast. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has paused its processing of a permit application for an operation which would emit more than 40 times the total existing statewide emissions of toxic methyl […]
Washington Watch: Catastrophic Kavanaugh
Washington Watch: Catastrophic Kavanaugh The verdict is in: President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court would represent a catastrophe for clean water and air. Brett Kavanaugh’s unusually clear and extensive record as a Court of Appeals judge allowed environmental advocates to make a decisive judgment on his danger as a potential member of the Supreme […]
Campaign Watch: NCLCV Announces Endorsements
Campaign Watch: NCLCV Announces Endorsements Last week, NCLCV’s Conservation PAC announced its initial endorsement of 34 new candidates for North Carolina House and 18 new candidates for North Carolina Senate. In addition, it named another list of 48 previously endorsed incumbent members of the state legislature who are seeking re-election and whose environmental records justify […]
Campaign Watch: NCLCV Will Release Legislative Endorsements
Campaign Watch: NCLCV Will Release Legislative Endorsements NCLCV will release its 2018 slate of endorsements in key state legislative contests this week. The releases are expected to be made on a regional basis in order to emphasize good environmental candidates around the state. Look for these endorsements to be posted here within the next few […]
Judicial Watch: New Supreme Court Nominee Expected Monday
Judicial Watch: New Supreme Court Nominee Expected Today The president’s nominee for U.S. Supreme Court is expected to be announced today (Monday, July 9). Last week, CIB discussed the policy significance of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement. Kennedy was often the court’s swing vote on critical environmental issues—including interpretations of the Clean Water Act and […]
Coast Watch: Unlearning the Lessons of Deepwater Horizon
Coast Watch: Unlearning the Lessons of Deepwater Horizon Just eight years after the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling disaster, the Trump Administration is proposing to undo one of the most important rules designed to prevent other oil well blowout catastrophes in the future. The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is proposing to […]
Washington Watch: Pruitt Goes Down Under Weight of Scandals
Washington Watch: Pruitt Goes Down Under Weight of Scandals In a sudden but not shocking development last week, EPA head Scott Pruitt finally succumbed to his serial ethical lapses. The surprise—for any administration but the current regime in the White House—would have been that an official like Pruitt lasted as long as he did despite […]
Education & Resources: Duplin’s Hog “Inspections” Scandal
Education & Resources: Duplin’s Hog “Inspections” Scandal Environmental investigative reporter Lisa Sorg broke a story for NC Policy Watch last week which may help explain how Big Hog’s operations in Duplin County mounted to such an outrageous level. Did similar patterns happen elsewhere as well? Beyond the halls of the legislature, how many blind eyes […]
Washington Watch: Kennedy Retirement Scrambles Court
Washington Watch: Kennedy Retirement Scrambles Court The U.S. Supreme Court has just lost its key swing vote on federal law and the environment in Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. When Kennedy announced his retirement last week, it put clean air, clean water, and public health into immediate jeopardy. While Kennedy reliably sided with the conservative business […]
Administrative Watch: Interior Proposes Dooming Wild Red Wolves
Administrative Watch: Interior Proposes Dooming Wild Red Wolves Last week, the Trump Administration announced wildlife management changes which would doom the last wild red wolf population to extinction in the wild. Killings of endangered red wolves have already reached a point that threatens the survival of their last wild population of about 35 wolves in eastern […]
