Judicial Watch: Supreme Court Blocks Elections Board Law
Judicial Watch: Supreme Court Blocks Elections Board Law In a hopeful sign for the future of voting rights in North Carolina, the NC Supreme Court last week stepped in to block a law that would almost certainly have produced draconian cuts to early voting opportunities. The Court reinstated a preliminary injunction against the law that […]
Environomics: Wind Energy Working Now in NC
Great news: North Carolina’s first wind farm is up and running despite attempts to derail it.
Legislative Watch: Court Derails Confirmation Hearings
Legislative Watch: Court Derails Confirmation Hearings The big news from the General Assembly last week was what didn’t happen: the start of confirmation hearings for Governor Roy Cooper’s cabinet department heads. Set to begin last Wednesday, the hearings were stopped before they started by order of the special three-judge panel hearing Cooper’s request to declare […]
Administrative Watch: DEQ Getting a Makeover
Leadership roles in North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) are now being filled by people who actually believe in protecting our environment. See who made the cut:
Judicial Watch: Battle Continues Over Election Laws
Another panel of judges has weighed in on whether the law stripping the governor’s office of control over state election boards will go into effect.
Environomics: Major Nuclear Builder Abandoning the Business
Environomics: Major Nuclear Builder Abandoning the Business Despite massive taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies, nuclear power construction has become so economically noncompetitive that a major builder is abandoning the business. Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp., which owns Westinghouse Electric Co., is reportedly in the process of getting out of the nuclear plant construction business altogether. According to the […]
Education & Resources: Which Climate Rules Are Most Vulnerable?
Education & Resources: Which Climate Rules Are Most Vulnerable? Environmental advocates are naturally worried about the Trump Administration’s determination to reverse President Obama’s work to bring climate change under control. Which parts of the Obama legacy of climate action are most vulnerable? The New York Times has prepared an enlightening look at some of the […]
Administrative Watch: EPA Tells DEQ—Clean Up Your Hog Act
Administrative Watch: EPA Tells DEQ—Clean Up Your Hog Act The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Civil Rights Office has told the NC Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that it’s time to do its job in protecting low income, minority, rural residents from hog farm pollution. Last October, about 20 people who live near factory-style hog […]
Washington Watch: Pipelines and Gag Orders
Washington Watch: Pipelines and Gag Orders Pipelines, gag orders, rule cancellations, grant suspensions, big budget cuts: the Trump presidency is starting out every bit as disastrously for the environment as environmental advocates expected and feared. Let’s take a quick look at the early low points of the anti-environment president. First, four of Trump’s first nine […]
Legislative Watch: Confirmation Debates Loom
Legislative Watch: Confirmation Debates Loom Legislative observers predict a likely clash in the NC Senate over the confirmation of Michael Regan as Secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Conservationists cheered when Gov. Roy Cooper nominated the experienced Regan for the role of our state’s chief administrative guardian of public health and the environment. […]
