DEQ required Dominion to pay $1.5 million for potential, actual damage from...
Dominion Energy paid more than $1.5 million to the NC Department of Environmental Quality to offset potential and actual damage from the construction and operation of the now-defunct Atlantic Coast...
View ArticleBreaking: Coal ash released after sinkhole collapse in Mooresville
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. Coal ash from a structural fill site entered an unnamed stream after a sinkhole formed in Mooresville, state...
View ArticleSen. Tillis says Trump will now extend offshore drilling moratorium to NC
In a struggle to defend his incumbency, Sen. Thom Tillis announced on his website yesterday that he had spoken with President Donald Trump and “was informed that North Carolina will be included in a...
View ArticleDEQ cites Colonial Pipeline for gasoline spill, material includes...
The cancer-causing compound benzene has been detected in groundwater from an Aug. 14 gasoline spill in Huntersville, prompted state regulators to cite Colonial Pipeline, which is responsible for the...
View ArticleDEQ levies largest fine in eight years on Sampson County hog farm
B&L Farms, an industrialized swine operation near Spivey’s Corner in Sampson County, was fined more than $87,698 by state regulators today for a waste lagoon breach that spilled 3 million gallons...
View ArticleRevival of endangered bird provides rare bit of good environmental news
Red-cockaded woodpecker poised to end perch on ‘endangered’ list A rare bird in in the southeastern U.S. is making enough of a comeback for the Trump administration to propose moving it off the federal...
View ArticleToxic PFAS found in livers of Atlantic seabirds, including those in NC
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are accumulating in dead juvenile seabirds in three locations off the Atlantic Coast, including North Carolina, according to a study published this month...
View ArticleCaswell County paid $13K to mining attorney who advised repealing...
Caswell County paid $13,000 to mining and land-use attorney Tom Terrell Jr., ostensibly for his unbiased legal opinion about a mining company’s property rights. But invoices show that he was asked to...
View ArticleGas leak less than a mile from new Aberdeen Elementary School shows perils of...
Natural gas continues to leak from a ruptured line in Aberdeen about eight-tenths of a mile from the new Aberdeen Elementary School, whose location has concerned many parents because it is in an...
View ArticleAttorney General Josh Stein suing DuPont, Chemours over toxic PFAS...
Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a lawsuit against DuPont and Chemours, alleging they covered up the discharge and release of toxic PFAS, including GenX into the drinking water and air, even...
View ArticleTwo class action lawsuits, representing thousands of North Carolinians, filed...
Thousands of people in North Carolina are suing Chemours and several employees, alleging they knew releases of toxic PFAS — perfluorinated compounds — from its Fayetteville Works plant were...
View ArticleBurlington, Haw River Assembly reach agreement on PFAS contamination;...
The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Haw River Assembly, finalized a memorandum of agreement with the City of Burlington in which the city agreed to investigate the sources of per-...
View ArticleColonial Pipeline “significantly underestimated” amount of gasoline spilled...
During a major spill in August, Colonial Pipeline released more gasoline into the environment than the company originally reported, the NC Department of Environmental Quality announced today....
View ArticlePublic hearing, comment period announced for consent order with Greensboro...
The NC Department of Environmental Quality will hold a remote public hearing next month about a Special Order of Consent to correct the City of Greensboro’s illegal discharges of 1,4-Dioxane into the...
View ArticleComplaint: US Fish and Wildlife Service illegally allowing red wolves to go...
Just seven wild red wolves are still alive in the world, all of them in eastern North Carolina, the result of federal wildlife officials’ flouting a court order, according to a legal complaint filed by...
View ArticleScientist’s calculation offers hopeful news on climate crisis
Coronavirus relief funds could easily pay to stop the worst of climate change while rebooting economies As of late summer, governments around the world had pledged US$12.2 trillion of relief in...
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In damning opinion, federal appeals court rules against Murphy-Brown in hog...
Punitive damages will be recalculated, but court sides with plaintiffs on all other arguments This is a developing story. Update 6:25 p.m.: Smithfield issued a statement saying they have “resolved...
View ArticleTask force recommends new environmental justice positions at four key state...
One of the most striking disconnects between state agencies occurred last year when the Department of Commerce announced at a legislative committee that it supported the Atlantic Coast Pipeline....
View ArticleDEQ to Align RNG: Tell us the location of the hog farms in biogas project
The NC Department of Environmental Quality is pressing Align RNG, a partnership between Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy, to reveal the locations of hog farms involved in the largest biogas project...
View ArticleWood pellet company Active Energy Renewable Power faces legal action over...
Active Energy Renewable Power, which plans to operate a large wood pellet plant in Lumberton, in Robeson County, faces a potential lawsuit for discharging polluted wastewater for nearly 500 days into...
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