Legislative Watch: Protect Clean Streams and Clean Energy
Legislative Watch: Protect Clean Streams and Clean Energy The same bad bills are back again, pushing for less clean energy and more destroyed streams. We can’t afford to ignore these renewed threats to our clean air and water. First, the old cliché of “regulatory reform” is trotted out again in the Senate. As we all […]
Education & Resources: The Economics of Small Rooftop Solar
Why is Duke Energy fighting a small Greensboro church over rooftop solar?
Executive Watch: Can Anyone Counter a Legislature Dominated by Anti-Environmental Politicians?
Is the Governor of North Carolina more than a puppet who dances to the legislature’s tunes? A state court panel is now weighing a case with profound consequences for the fair conduct of elections and the enforcement of environmental safeguards in our state.
Judicial Watch: NC Withdraws from Challenge to Clean Power Plan
Thanks to a pro-clean air and water Attorney General and Secretary of Environmental Quality, North Carolina extracts itself from a frivolous lawsuit.
Washington Watch: A Science Denier Now Heads the EPA
Not an alternative fact: last week Scott Pruitt (Trump’s new head of the Environmental Protection Agency) publicly denied that the increased carbon dioxide humans have pumped into the atmosphere is driving climate change.
Washington Watch: Trump Dumps Clean Water
President Trump’s administration moves quickly to cut the Clean Water Rule, a critical safeguard enacted by the Obama Administration.
Executive Watch: Cooper Seeks Investments in Clean Water
In his proposed budget, Governor Cooper asks for investments in North Carolina’s water quality, a refreshing change from the last four years.
Campaign Watch: Most NC Reps Flunk National Environmental Scorecard
In the recently-released 2016 National Environmental Scorecard by the League of Conservation Voters, the majority of North Carolina’s delegation flunked.
Legislative Watch: Senate Committee Confirms Hall
After much political theater and partisan power-grabbing, Governor Cooper’s first cabinet Secretary confirmed by NC Senate committee.
Why we oppose partisan gerrymandering
On Wednesday, we joined with business leaders, nonprofit organizations, students, retirees, and many more, united in an effort to establish an independent redistricting process for North Carolina. NC Policy Watch provides an overview of the main problem in North Carolina elections: gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral boundaries to favor one party or class […]
