Electronics to Landfills
Anti-environment state senators are targeting another well-established…
Clean Energy Worth Billions in North Carolina
The latest annual update from the North Carolina Sustainable Energy…
Hands Across the Sand
Opponents of offshore drilling and sonic blasting joined hands on March 18 up and down the North Carolina coast. Lines of people linked hands along the beach in at least nine coastal communities, from Nags Head in the north to Sunset Beach in the south. Participants held these symbolic human barricades for a 15-minute silent […]
Winds of Crossover
Has an ill legislative wind bringing environmentally egregious bills ceased…
Broken Ground
A new environmental podcast from the Southern Environmental Law…
Conservationists Intervene in Coal Ash Case
Citizen conservation and environmental justice groups have filed motions…
Fighting Duke’s Dirty Rate Hikes Bill
Citizens continue to fight hard against legislation which would make it…
Sonic Blasting Still a Threat
A federal judge has put the Trump Administration’s offshore oil and gas leasing plans on hold. However, it became clear last week that the administration has no intent to delay its decisions on permits for undersea sonic blasting for oil and gas exploration. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is still processing the permit […]
Cooper Appoints Utilities Commissioners
Gov. Roy Cooper nominated three new members of the North Carolina Utilities Commission last week. If they win legislative confirmation, the commission could take a more skeptical look at future Duke Energy rate hike requests. The three nominees would replace sitting commissioners whose terms are expiring and who have been criticized as too quick to […]
Crossover Crunch Time
This is the time of year when bad ideas that have been lurking in…
