Administrative Watch: DEQ Will Investigate Citizen Hog Farm Complaints
Administrative Watch: DEQ Will Investigate Citizen Hog Farm Complaints NC’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is revising its internal policies that under former Gov. Pat McCrory led to repeated failures to investigate complaints of pollution control violations by industrial-scale hog farms. The action was announced two weeks ago by citizen groups including the Waterkeeper Alliance, […]
Campaign Watch: Environment Wins in Alabama Election
In the Alabama Senate election outcome, the headlines naturally focused on the win for basic decency in voters’ rejection of a candidate credibly accused of sexual predation against minors. The contest’s outcome was also a victory for the environment.
Administrative Watch: Split Virginia Board Approves Pipeline Permit
A narrow vote of contingent approval for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline by a key Virginia regulatory body leaves North Carolina as the biggest remaining state hurdle for the pipeline to leap.
Legislative Watch: DEQ Needs More Staff to Handle Workload
Leaders of the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) last week explained (again) to legislators how a shrunken budget and fewer enforcement staff are putting our air, water, and health at increased risk.
Nuclear Update: State Analysts Say Georgia Nuke Should Be Cancelled
The last new commercial nuclear power plant still under actual construction in the southeast is “uneconomic” and should be cancelled.
Judicial Watch: Hog Giant Must Clean Up; What About Duke?
Federal courts in North Carolina were the sites of environmental action on two fronts last week: hog waste and coal ash dumps. Both cases have strong environmental justice overtones.
Administrative Watch: Chemours Agrees to Halt Discharge
The Chemours corporation has agreed to cease its discharge of industrial wastewater, the Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reported last week.
Nuclear Update: Altered Audit Cost SC Ratepayers $800 Million
The utility building the now-abandoned V.C. Summer nuclear plant in South Carolina covered up the severity of construction problems, and used the deception to suck another $800 million out of ratepayers.
Administrative Watch: NC Wants More Water Info on Pipeline
The state of North Carolina has more questions about the water quality impacts of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline in our state.
Washington Watch: Tax Bill Threatens Environment, Clean Energy
The U.S. Senate passed its version of “tax reform” that contained several anti-conservation and clean energy provisions, including opening the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
