Campaign Watch: Early Voting Begins
Campaign Watch: Early Voting Begins The 2018 voting season has officially opened in North Carolina. Voters around our state have started making their choices in multiple primaries for Congress and the state legislature. A number of those choices may be critical to the prospects for throwing out the anti-environmental leadership in both bodies. For details […]
Administrative Watch: EMC Approves Deal on Coal Ash Fines
Administrative Watch: EMC Approves Deal on Coal Ash Fines The state Environmental Management Commission (EMC) has ordered Duke Energy to pay a relatively small fine and to speed up work to stop leaks from its coal ash ponds at three North Carolina coal plants. The EMC’s action approved a consent order reached with the utility […]
Executive Watch: Cooper Calls for DEQ Funding
Executive Watch: Cooper Calls for DEQ Funding While his environmental enforcement staff is making its most aggressive moves yet to halt GenX emissions, Gov. Roy Cooper called on the state legislature to ramp up funding for the Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) efforts to address similar “emerging contaminants” in our water and air. Cooper announced […]
Judicial Watch: DEQ Seeks Injunction Against GenX Discharges
Judicial Watch: DEQ Seeks Injunction Against GenX Discharges The Chemours Corporation has been releasing the toxic chemical GenX at more than 40 times the rate previously admitted by the company, according to state court filings. The NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is seeking a court order to force the company to stop releasing the […]
Education & Resources: Another Coastal Danger from Climate Change
Education & Resources: Another Coastal Danger from Climate Change Concern for our coasts, both human habitation and the natural shore, has understandably focused on the obvious dangers of rising sea levels and intensifying storms. A new study underscores the risks to clean water and habitats in our estuaries themselves. Read the specifics here. Up next, […]
Washington Watch: EPA’s Swamp Monster
Washington Watch: EPA’s Swamp Monster Unchastened by a growing ethics crisis, the EPA’s own swamp monster continued to throw bombs at the environment, even while his position as head of the agency seems in growing jeopardy. Scott Pruitt, the pro-polluter head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), came under withering fire last week over his […]
Judicial Watch: Hogs in Court
Judicial Watch: Hogs in Court A key trial kicked off in federal court last week over neighbors’ nuisance claims against international hog giant Smithfield Foods. The question: Should Smithfield be required to compensate those neighbors for the impacts of living under the pervasive stench and clouds of flies generated by the corporation’s contracted factory farms? […]
Education & Resources: Wind Power
Education & Resources: Wind Power A new report released by Environment North Carolina details the potential of wind energy development off the North Carolina coast. The report reviews the “enormous” potential of offshore wind energy, as well as its proven affordability, still-dropping costs, and consistency with strong environmental safeguards. Read the details here. Up next, […]
Washington Watch: EPA Staff Told to Lie on Climate Change
Washington Watch: EPA Staff Told to Lie on Climate Change New orders from the top in the EPA to its staff: Lie about climate change. It’s no longer news that the current president and his political appointee to head the Environmental Protection Agency live in a pro-pollution fantasy world on the subject of human-driven climate […]
Administrative Watch: Feds Deny Unseasonal Clearing for Pipeline
Administrative Watch: Feds Deny Unseasonal Clearing for Pipeline Federal officials have refused a new clearing request for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last week denied Dominion Energy’s request to extend its tree clearing work along the proposed pipeline route for another two months (to May 15). FERC’s original fall-to-spring […]
