Well owners near coal ash ponds to receive permanent alternative water supply
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is notifying about 1,000 drinking-well owners who live within a half-mile of coal ash ponds that they will receive permanent water supplies, according to a...
View ArticleNC DEQ asks EPA to dismiss civil rights complaint over hog farms
State environmental regulators have asked the EPA’s Office of Civil Rights to reject a complaint alleging large hog farms disproportionately harm minority communities. EarthJustice and the UNC Center...
View ArticleThe western NC wildfires are visible from space; record pollution in smoke...
Breathing in far southwestern North Carolina, outside anyway, is not advised because of pollution coming from a dozen wildfires. The NC Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Code Red, which...
View ArticleEditorial: Cooper, thankfully, putting an end to years of lax environmental...
This morning’s Fayetteville Observer has a fine editorial that sums up the sad state of environmental protection efforts in North Carolina. Its accurate conclusion: Years of both benign and toxic...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Coast Pipeline investigation: Much ado about … something?
There are too many reasons to mention why we should be skeptical of the N.C. General Assembly’s keen interest in Gov. Roy Cooper’s handling of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline permitting. Republican...
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Well owners near coal ash ponds to receive permanent alternative water supply
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is notifying about 1,000 drinking-well owners who live within a half-mile of coal ash ponds that they will receive permanent water supplies, according to a...
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NC DEQ asks EPA to dismiss civil rights complaint over hog farms
(Map from UNC Chapel Hill study of hog farms and minority communities) State environmental regulators have asked the EPA’s Office of Civil Rights to reject a complaint alleging large hog farms...
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The western NC wildfires are visible from space; record pollution in smoke...
Breathing in far southwestern North Carolina, outside anyway, is not advised because of pollution coming from a dozen wildfires. The NC Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Code Red, which...
View ArticleEditorial: Cooper, thankfully, putting an end to years of lax environmental...
This morning’s Fayetteville Observer has a fine editorial that sums up the sad state of environmental protection efforts in North Carolina. Its accurate conclusion: Years of both benign and toxic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline investigation: Much ado about … something?
The General Assembly’s hired investigators. (Photo: WRAL livestream) There are too many reasons to mention why we should be skeptical of the N.C. General Assembly’s keen interest in Gov. Roy Cooper’s...
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PFAS-contaminated foam found in Falls Lake, Neuse River
Maps by Lisa Sorg; source data, NC DEQ Latest state data show 15 locations across NC in which PFAS have been detected in foam or nearby surface water First it appeared in Gray’s Creek in southern...
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