Climate Change Update: Hottest Year on Record…Again
Climate Change Update: Hottest Year on Record…Again For the third year in a row, data collected in 2016 show that the earth has just experienced its hottest year on record. In fact, 2016 marked the first time in the historical record that the “hottest year on record” was recorded three times in successive record-breaking years. […]
Executive Watch: Cooper Names Leaders for Natural and Cultural Resources
Executive Watch: Cooper Names Leaders for Natural and Cultural Resources A State House veteran and a land trust leader will team up to oversee the department housing our state parks, natural heritage and farmland preservation programs, environmental education facilities and historic sites. Gov. Roy Cooper named Rep. Susi Hamilton (D-New Hanover) as the next Secretary […]
Legislative Watch: Navy Says Wind Farm Won’t Interfere with Radar
Legislative Watch: Navy Says Wind Farm Won’t Interfere with Radar The U.S. Navy has advice for state legislators who have worked up a head of steam in opposition to a major wind energy project in northeastern North Carolina: Don’t bother sailing into that wind. As discussed in CIB last week, a pirate crew of ten […]
Education & Resources: Six Years of Destruction
Education & Resources: Six Years of Destruction Six years of a legislatively imposed starvation diet has left North Carolina’s principal environmental protection department too weak to do its job. A new summary of the impacts paints an alarming picture. Gov. Roy Cooper’s new leadership team faces an acute human resources challenge as it takes the […]
NCLCV Applauds Gov. Cooper’s Nominees to Lead NC Natural & Cultural Resources
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2017 Contact: Katie Todd; katie@nclcv.org; 919-244-5868 NCLCV Applauds Gov. Cooper’s Nominees to Lead NC Dept. of Natural & Cultural Resources Rep. Susi Hamilton and Reid Wilson bring wealth of conservation, economic experience RALEIGH: Dan Crawford, NCLCV’s director of governmental relations, released the following statement in response on Governor Roy Cooper’s choice […]
Education & Resources: BREATHE Easier
How about a conference on air quality, human health, the economy, and how we can improve all three in North Carolina? The free NC BREATHE conference is for you. The NC BREATHE Conference is sponsored by Clean Air Carolina, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, and other groups and individuals. It will be held on March […]
Coast Watch: No to Seismic Testing; Yes to Living Shorelines
With less than a week to go before it’s out the door, the Obama Administration is still knocking out some good environmental decisions for our coast. First, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has formally denied all pending applications for permits to conduct seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean. The decision covered six requests […]
Judicial Watch: Supreme Court Delays Redistricting Order
In the latest twist on state legislative redistricting, the US Supreme Court has put the lower court order for new districts and elections in 2017 on hold, while it decides whether to hear an appeal of the order. The one-paragraph order came in response to legislators’ request to halt the new redistricting and elections. The […]
Legislative Watch: Legislators Attack Wind Project
The General Assembly just got back in Raleigh last Wednesday, but some of its leaders wasted no time in launching a new misleading attack on renewable wind energy. Ten state legislators, including Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, wrote to the new nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, asking that […]
Administrative Watch: Commission Defies EPA on Clean Water
Once again, North Carolina’s state environmental agency is refusing to comply with federal environmental requirements. This time, clean water is at jeopardy. For the past three years, the appointed leadership of the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the NC Environmental Management Commission (EMC) have been at odds with the US Environmental Protection Agency […]
