The Other Side: Consumer Energy Alliance, Fossil Fuel Front
The Other Side: Consumer Energy Alliance, Fossil Fuel Front Candidates for the General Assembly are receiving correspondence from a friendly-sounding entity named the “Consumer Energy Alliance,” which bills itself as “the voice of the energy consumer.” In reality, this Houston-based organization is a political front for the fossil fuel industry. The CEA correspondence to state […]
Legislative Watch: Budgeting in the Dark
Legislative Watch: Budgeting in the Dark The 2018 North Carolina state budget bill, developed entirely in private by a small group of exclusively Republican state legislators, was publicly released late Sunday night, less than 14 hours before a Monday morning committee meeting at which it was first discussed. Legislative leaders chose to file the budget […]
Campaign Watch: Green Ties & Green Caucus
Campaign Watch: Green Ties & Green Caucus A Green Caucus is coming to the North Carolina General Assembly. In front of over 200 attendees at the 2018 NCLCV Green Tie Awards event last Wednesday, our honorees announced that they and NCLCV would formally establish the caucus. NCLCV will be working this year and in coming […]
Judicial Watch: No Help for Community Solar Projects
Judicial Watch: No Help for Community Solar Projects The state Supreme Court has closed the door on a citizen clean energy group’s effort to set up an alternative means of financing community solar projects. Without discussion, the court confirmed the state Court of Appeals’ ruling, which said that the citizen group (NC WARN) was illegally […]
Campaign Watch: Opposition Legislators Propose Alternative GenX Bill
Campaign Watch: Opposition Legislators Propose Alternative GenX Bill An alternative approach to the GenX crisis was put forward last week by leaders from the legislature’s minority party. Pushed to the side in last year’s debates by their minority status in both chambers of the General Assembly, House Democrats filed legislation presumably reflecting the environmental priorities […]
Legislative Watch: Action on GenX — or a Sham?
Legislative Watch: Action on GenX — or a Sham? State legislative leaders have finally reached agreement on legislation to address the GenX pollution crisis — but analysts say it’s a sham. Republicans in both chambers have simultaneously introduced identical companion bills—HB 972 and SB 724—which they claim would give the state the authority to shut […]
Judicial Watch: Judge Reduces Damages Award Against Big Hog
Judicial Watch: Judge Reduces Damages Award Against Big Hog Last week, the federal judge in the first big lawsuit by hog farm neighbors against Big Hog in North Carolina substantially reduced the money awarded to the neighbors. Applying a North Carolina law designed to limit “punitive damages” awards, the trial judge cut that portion of […]
Washington Watch: Defending Clean Water
Washington Watch: Defending Clean Water NCLCV has signed on to a letter asking U.S. House members to block the latest congressional effort to gut clean water protections. Last week, a House committee added an amendment to its FY2019 Energy and Water Appropriations bill which would eliminate the Clean Water Rule (CWR). The CWR is a […]
Legislative Watch: Environment an Issue in Budget Showdown
Legislative Watch: Environment an Issue in Budget Showdown The North Carolina General Assembly reconvenes this Wednesday, May 16th, for its biennial budget “short session”—and there’s already a looming showdown between two very different versions of a budget. Environmental spending is one of the big differences. The detailed budget amendments proposed by Gov. Roy Cooper last […]
Campaign Watch: Primary Day
Campaign Watch: Primary Day Tuesday, May 8th, is Primary Day in North Carolina. If you or any of your friends or family did not take advantage of early voting, tomorrow is the last chance to vote in the 2018 primaries. This year, an unusually high percentage of North Carolinians will have the opportunity to cast […]
