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Greensboro violates consent order, discharges high levels of 1,4-Dioxane,...
South Buffalo Creek receives wastewater from Greensboro’s TZ Osborne treatment plant. The creek flows into the Haw River, a drinking water supply for the Town of Pittsboro. In turn, the Haw empties...
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Pittsboro officials have activated emergency response over 1,4-Dioxane...
The Haw River, as viewed from the Bynum bridge (File photo: Lisa Sorg) High levels of 1,4-Dioxane could contaminate the drinking water for Pittsboro as early as today, prompting town officials to...
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Mystery foam in Cumberland County contains high levels of PFAS, investigation...
Source: EPA This article has been corrected to say that neither Chemours nor DuPont produced PFOS at the Fayetteville Works plant. High levels of toxic PFAS – perfluorinated and polyfluoroalkyl...
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Pittsboro announces drinking water results after 1,4-Dioxane spill in Greensboro
The Haw River, as viewed from the Bynum bridge (File photo: Lisa Sorg) Levels of 1,4-Dioxane in finished, or treated, drinking water in Pittsboro are below the EPA and North Carolina’s drinking water...
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Colonial Pipeline cuts deal with federal pipeline officials over Huntersville...
Colonial Pipeline contractors have installed monitoring and recovery wells near the spill site. This photo was taken from the back yard of Marc Bellet, who lives nearby. (File photo: Lisa Sorg)...
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EPA recommends that Army Corps of Engineers not grant Mountain Valley...
An erosion control device at a temporary equipment crossing for Mountain Valley Pipeline in May 2021. (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission construction report) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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EPA knew fracking fluid can degrade into toxic PFAS, approved it anyway
Fracking has been legal in North Carolina since 2014, but because of a lack of easily accessible natural gas and local governments’ temporary moratoria on the practice, only test wells have been...
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Pittsboro hit with another dose of 1,4-Dioxane from Greensboro
This story has been corrected. Greensboro told Policy Watch today that they do not believe Shamrock Environmental is the source of the contamination. The data provided by the Town of Pittsboro did not...
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U.S. House to vote next week on expanding PFAS regulation, backers say
EPA Administrator Michael Regan WASHINGTON—Members of Congress and Biden administration officials at a conference on Wednesday outlined how they’re attempting to regulate toxic chemicals found in...
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Controversial energy legislation narrowly passes NC House despite widespread...
Among the many unsupported, if downright bizarre, statements uttered about House Bill 951, Rep. Larry Pittman’s bested them all. Solar farms, he announced on the House floor yesterday, make deer meat...
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Once planned for North Carolina, Active Energy’s wood pellet experiment in...
Source: Active Energy investor chat webinar Active Energy, the company behind a controversial wood pellet plant in Lumberton, has produced only a fraction of the amount it promised to deliver from a...
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Democrats unite around ‘climate corps’ that could employ youth, prevent fires
Image: AdobeStock U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pledged on Tuesday to include a Civilian Climate Corps in a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill later this year, as a broad swath of Democrats...
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Duke University scientists found a new way to trace coal ash in soil....
This story has been updated with comments from Duke Energy. Coal ash particles have been found in soil near two coal-fired power plants: Duke Energy’s Marshall Steam Station on Lake Norman near the...
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Yes, it’s a “climate emergency”
In this morning’s edition of the Weekly Briefing and other recent NC Policy Watch commentaries, reference is made on more than one occasion to the “climate emergency” that currently confronts the...
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Biden to nominate NC’s Hooks for FEMA deputy
Sec. Erik Hooks President Joe Biden will nominate Erik Hooks, state Public Safety secretary, to be FEMA’s deputy administrator, the White House announced Tuesday. Hooks has led Public Safety, which...
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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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Visiting a popular national park? Pandemic crowds have forced some to require...
WASHINGTON — Watching the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain at Maine’s Acadia National Park is a gorgeous view — so breathtaking that on some days, as many as 500 cars could be found vying for the scenic...
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‘Big and bold’ infrastructure bill still falls short on helping states fight...
Image: AdobeStock The Senate is poised to pass a massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that would upgrade state transportation networks, electric grids, water systems and more. It’s a major...
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The latest sobering climate report: A lead author explains what the warnings...
Image: AdobeStock [Editor’s note: The following article is republished from The Conversation.] Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans...
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IPCC report on climate change: “a reality check”— and that reality is grim
Graphic: Climate Central The numerical difference between 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees Celsius is small, but it stands between all that is alive and a potentially cataclysmic capsizing of the natural...
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