CIB 8/3/2015: The plan to cut carbon pollution almost here
The much-anticipated Clean Power Plan final rule is expected this week, plus more news, this week in CIB: Washington Watch: Clean Power Plan Expected This Week The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce its final rule for carbon dioxide emissions reductions (the “Clean Power Plan”) this week – perhaps as early as today. […]
NCLCV Praises New Clean Power Rule While NC Legislature Fights Over Next Steps
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 3, 2015 CONTACT: Dan Crawford, Director of Governmental Relations, NC League of Conservation Voters; dan@nclcv.org, 919-839-0020 or 919-539-1422 RALEIGH – Today, the North Carolina League of Conservation Voters (NCLCV) praised the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, a common sense regulation to cut carbon emissions from power plants. The Clean Power Plan will […]
Citizen Advocacy at Work
The following is the speech Mac Montgomery, former mayor of Kure Beach and current Treasurer of the NC League of Conservation Voters’ Board of Directors, gave on July 21, 2015 during a public hearing in front of the House Environment Committee. The hearing centered around the Regulatory Reform Act of 2015 (HB765). You can read […]
HotList 7/29/2015: Why H571’s PCS needs to go
Hello, The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to release their carbon emissions rule early this August. These first-of-their-kind standards, part of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), mark an effort to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants. Using data collected from each state, the CPP will set state pollution targets aiming to reduce […]
CIB 7/27/2015: What is the fate of NC’s Clean Power Plan?
State Senate leaders continue to undercut good environmental policy, plus more news, this week in CIB. Legislative Watch: Clean Power Plan Attacked; Polluter Protection Act Goes to Conference NC Senate leaders continued their apparently reflexive rejection of common sense on environmental policy last week, as a Senate committee flipped positive bipartisan House legislation on the […]
Meet 2015 Stanback Intern: Claire Chen
Where is home for you? I grew up in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, but I’ve also lived in New York, West Virginia, and China. Home is always anywhere my family is, but right now it’s at Duke University. Where are you on your higher education path? I’m a Duke sophomore studying Public Policy and Economics. Why […]
Saying Goodbye: Alice Zawadzki
We want to take a moment to remember and rejoice in the life of one of our state’s most vivid and compassionate conservationists: Alice Zawadzki. Alice was a strong voice for protecting North Carolina’s beauty in her work with the North Carolina Native Plant Society, Friends of Plant Conservation, Inc., Friends of State Parks, and […]
7/20/2015: Renewable energy in spite of NC General Assembly?
Environomics: NC’s First Major Wind Farm; Target’s Solar Stores Even as development of solar energy has taken off in North Carolina, the realization of our extensive wind energy resource has lagged behind. That may finally be beginning to change. Representatives of an international wind power developer indicate that the company plans to begin construction of […]
CIB 7/13/2015: NC General Assembly back in business
Citizen voices are needed now to save our state from the Polluter Protection Act. This week in CIB. Legislative Watch: Pressure Builds to Block Polluter Protections While our state’s legislators were taking a self-declared vacation last week, citizen conservation advocates (and major newspaper editors) were working to alert the general public to the threat of […]
Meet 2015 Stanback Intern: Sara Price
Where is home for you? I was born in Pittsburgh, PA but grew up and spent most of my years before college just outside Philadelphia with my mother, father, and identical twin sister. I had never been to North Carolina before attending Duke; however, the school and surrounding environment were so immediately welcoming that I […]
