DEQ cites Chemours for illegal dumping of PFAS-contaminated soil
Chemours could be fined after state environmental regulators cited the company for dumping soil and tree roots likely contaminated with perfluorinated compounds into an unlined landfill. The NC...
View ArticlePipeline news: Dominion requests 2-year extension for ACP; feds approve MVP
Construction on the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline won’t be complete until 2022, Dominion Energy told federal regulators last week in its request for a two-year extension. Dominion and Duke Energy,...
View ArticleRobeson County residents tell DEQ to deny air permit for Active Energy wood...
A proposed wood pellet plant faces vehement opposition from many Robeson County residents, including elected officials, and environmental advocates, who say the facility would not only pollute the air,...
View ArticleBeyond FEMA: New flood maps show more areas at risk in North Carolina
New flood maps that account for intense rainfall and climate change show what many residents of western North Carolina already know: The mountains can be every bit as treacherous as the coast for...
View ArticleBREAKING: Duke, Dominion cancel $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline
This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available. Duke Energy and Dominion Energy announced Sunday that they are cancelling the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile...
View ArticleWake Stone’s proposal to mine next to Umstead State Park faces more...
Two public hearings, six-plus hours and hundreds of people: The controversy over a proposed the quarry on 225 acres of prime wildlife habitat next to Umstead State Park continued this morning as...
View ArticleSampling results show extremely high levels of hog feces, urine in waterways...
Levels of fecal bacteria at least as high as 3,000 times the state standard were found in ditches and waterways after a hog lagoon spill in Sampson County in June, state environmental sampling shows....
View ArticleNew federal report: NC coast to see big surge in flooding as sea levels rise
A team of scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a new study entitled “2019 State of U.S. High Tide Flooding with a 2020 Outlook” and, as you probably could have...
View Article1,000+ dead fish: DEQ releases more troubling details on hog lagoon spill
The breach of a hog lagoon that spilled 3 million gallons of feces and urine into streams, ponds and wetlands in the Cape Fear River Basin killed at least 1,000 fish — and occurred because of neglect...
View ArticleU.S. House passes bipartisan public lands bill; next stop president’s desk
WASHINGTON — Major environmental legislation sailed through Congress Wednesday while the nation’s political leaders were stuck in intense negotiations over the contours of a fifth coronavirus relief...
View ArticleSediment from PFAS-contaminated Chemours site heading down the Cape Fear River
An “apparent increase” in dirt and sediment potentially contaminated with perfluorinated compounds — PFAS — is headed from the Chemours plant down the Cape Fear River. In an email sent at 7:32 p.m....
View ArticleIn 7-page letter, DEQ wants more answers about Wake Stone’s plan to mine next...
The proposed Wake Stone mine in Raleigh has encountered another setback as state environmental regulators have returned the company’s application because it lacked key information. In a seven-page...
View ArticleHere’s something else to worry about: more mosquito days
It’s not your imagination. Mosquitoes are worse than they used to be. In central North Carolina, mosquito season is nearly two weeks longer now than it was 35 years ago, according to a Climate Central...
View ArticleCarolina Sunrock’s proposed quarry, asphalt plant is a no-go, says DEQ
The state Department of Environmental Quality has denied two permit applications submitted by Carolina Sunrock, which had asked to build a proposed asphalt and concrete plant on Highway 62 in Anderson,...
View ArticleAfter gasoline spill, Colonial Pipeline offers to connect some Huntersville...
Five households along Huntersville-Concord Road have received offers from Colonial Pipeline to cap their private drinking water wells and connect them to a public water system, after at least 63,000...
View ArticleIn Kittrell, 83 acres of forest near Tar River targeted for “clearing and...
Egypt Mountain Road is like many rural byways: lovely, peaceful and rarely traveled by anyone without a reason to be there. Off US 1 in Kittrell, in Vance County, the two-laner passes through hilly...
View ArticleWesternGeco withdraws seismic testing application, but NC coast still...
WesternGeco has withdrawn its application to conduct underwater seismic testing for the oil and gas industries off the coast of North Carolina. But without a federal moratorium on the testing and...
View ArticleColonial Pipeline gasoline spill in Huntersville was bigger — much bigger —...
The Colonial Pipeline spill on Aug. 14 released nearly five times more gasoline than previously estimated — at least 272,580 gallons, a number that could rise as the clean up in Huntersville continues....
View ArticleState ag officials: Dicamba also contaminated compost, but original source...
A state Department of Agriculture investigation found powerful herbicides Dicamba — now banned — and Clopyralid in several compost samples that killed and damaged plants in dozens of gardens and small...
View ArticleBreak in previously repaired pipe cause of Colonial Pipeline’s massive...
At 42 years old, the pipeline could take no more. Colonial Pipeline has identified a break in a previously repaired segment of pipe as the cause of a 272,580-gallon gasoline spill in Huntersville in...
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