Chemours fined nearly $200,000 by DEQ for environmental violations
The NC Department of Environmental Quality has fined Chemours $198,929.16 for various environmental violations, including the company’s failure to comply with several conditions of a 2019 consent...
View ArticleThe best editorial of the weekend: What wind power could do for NC (and the...
If you missed it, be sure to check out the lead weekend editorial in Raleigh’s News & Observer – “Strong winds off the coast could power a clean energy economy in North Carolina.” As the authors...
View ArticleColonial spill prompts bill that would require DEQ to study potential public...
The NC Department of Environmental Quality would receive $200,000 to study the “condition, safety and environmental impact” of pipelines that transport petroleum through or within the state, according...
View ArticleAmbitious Biden agriculture budget targets hunger, racial injustice, climate...
WASHINGTON—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday laid out USDA’s goals to expand food insecurity and nutrition programs in the president’s budget request, as well as the agency’s focus on...
View ArticleColonial Pipeline gasoline spill larger, contamination deeper than previously...
New estimates by Colonial Pipeline, responsible for the largest gasoline spill in North Carolina history, show that at least more gasoline escaped from a broken pipeline in Huntersville last summer....
View ArticleBiden’s Interior secretary seeks federal funding to fight climate change, aid...
In her first congressional hearing as the leader of the Interior Department, Secretary Deb Haaland fielded questions from members of a U.S. House spending panel Tuesday on the major conservation and...
View ArticleOn Earth Day 2021, ‘a complicated dance between hope and despair’
Environmentalist Tia Nelson, daughter of Earth Day’s founder, reflects on what it will take to save the planet On Thursday, the 51st anniversary of the first annual Earth Day on April 22, 1970, Tia...
View ArticleToday in greenwashing: a state-sponsored video about the purported benefits...
A two-minute video promoting the alleged benefits of biogas is notable not for what it says, but for what it fails to say. The video was co-sponsored by the NC Department of Agriculture, the NC Pork...
View ArticleUnder new administrator Regan, EPA closes loophole on toxic PFAS
Manufacturers of perfluorinated compounds, also known as PFAS, will no longer be allowed to use a special exemption that allowed hundreds of these toxic substances to be fast tracked into the...
View ArticleDEQ denies MVP Southgate water quality permit — again
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has again denied a key water quality permit for the proposed MVP Southgate natural gas pipeline, dealing another setback to the controversial...
View ArticleNew funding to curb wildfires pushed in Congress, as another fire season looms
Lawmakers focus on the western U.S., but the problem is national in scope WASHINGTON — As wildfires across the United States grow in size, intensity and duration each summer, members of Congress from...
View ArticleFire breaks out at Enviva wood pellet plant with history of environmental...
A fire broke out Friday afternoon at an Enviva wood pellet plant with an extensive history of environmental violations, sending thick clouds of smoke across Interstate 40. A pile of raw wood at a...
View ArticleState Rep. Pricey Harrison introduces bill to establish protections for...
All state agencies would have to consider environmental and public health justice when deciding on whether to approve publicly funded projects, according to a bill filed today by State Rep. Pricey...
View ArticleNo details yet on Biden ’30 by 30′ conservation plan, but Republicans slam it...
Republicans on the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday previewed their objections to the Biden administration’s still-unreleased plan to conserve 30% of U.S. land and water by 2030....
View ArticleInside Biden’s ambitious ’30 by 30′ conservation plan
Administration seeks to promote collaboration with private landowners The Biden administration plans to broadly define conservation and encourage private landowners to adopt sustainable practices to...
View ArticleActive Energy disregards state rules (again), DEQ cites wood pellet plant for...
Active Energy Renewable Power has racked up yet another environmental violation — and the controversial wood pellet plant in Lumberton isn’t even built yet. The NC Department of Environmental Quality...
View ArticleMigratory bird protections to be permanently restored by Biden administration
The Interior Department plans to officially revoke a Trump-era rule that loosened enforcement of a longstanding law to protect migratory birds, the department said Thursday. The rule put in place by...
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As NC lawmakers fast-track legislation prohibiting ransomware payments,...
gas shortage, ransomware, cyber threats, Colonial Pipeline, House Bill 813 The post As NC lawmakers fast-track legislation prohibiting ransomware payments, federal officials focus on pipeline shutdown,...
View ArticleEight red wolves released into the wild in eastern North Carolina in hopes of...
They’ve waited their whole lives for this moment. Four adult red wolves were released into a wildlife refuge in eastern North Carolina, and four red wolf pups were fostered to a female in hopes of...
View ArticleConservative conspiracy theorists target plan to promote Midwestern tourism
It started as a research project. University of Nebraska landscape architecture professor Kim Wilson asked her students in 2016 to brainstorm a way to increase tourism in Red Cloud, Neb., the childhood...
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