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Street protesters understand climate change crisis more than politicians do
Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images) COP26 has come and gone, but what emerges from the climate change summit will be with us today and tomorrow. Finally, at least, there seems to be consensus that...
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Is cutting down a tree for Christmas bad for the environment?
Real Christmas trees are a tradition for many families – but is that a good thing or a bad thing for the environment? (Dana Wormald | New Hampshire Bulletin) Christmas is a time for celebrating the...
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Some Democrats push to rescue climate plan in Biden spending package
A gas flare from the Shell Chemical LP petroleum refinery illuminates the sky in Norco, Louisiana. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) A group of congressional Democrats on Tuesday called for...
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Gov. Cooper executive order calls for deeper cuts in greenhouse gas...
Gov. Cooper signed Executive Order 246 today at NC A&T University (Screenshot: Governor’s Facebook page) Gov. Roy Cooper signed an ambitious executive order today designed to further reduce...
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Active Energy, company behind proposed wood pellet plant, loses another...
Active Energy Renewable Power occupies a 415,000-square-foot building in Lumberton, in Robeson County, that used to house Alamac American Knits. The company is contesting a lawsuit filed by...
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In role as judge, Donald van der Vaart rules on behalf of DEQ, hog farms and...
The black circles show the location of four confirmed farms that will send biogas to the Align RNG facility on Highway 24 in Turkey. Blue circles show farms closest to the pipeline route, but have not...
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EPA launches civil rights inquiry into DEQ’s permitting of biogas systems on...
The entrance to “High on the Hog,” an exhibit celebrating the state’s swine farming, at the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City (File photo: Lisa Sorg) The Environmental Protection Agency is...
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From gerrymandered maps, to conflicting COVID-19 messages, to I-95 purgatory:...
In this issue: 1. Panel of judges says new redistricting plans do not violate the NC constitution Maps for new congressional and legislative districts do not violate the state constitution and can be...
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Forest Service in ‘paradigm shift’ to use logging, controlled burns to...
Image: AdobeStock The Biden administration will announce Tuesday it is using $3 billion from last year’s infrastructure law to revamp the federal approach to wildfire management, introducing a 10-year...
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Federal pipeline standards backed by top energy regulator after Colonial...
Colonial Pipeline New federal powers are needed to prevent major energy disruptions like the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline that left the East Coast short of gas at the pumps for days, the...
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Biden says ‘big chunks’ of his spending bill could still succeed, including...
President Joe Biden said Wednesday the climate and child care provisions in his domestic spending agenda could still become law this year, even as the larger plan has stalled in the Senate over other...
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Expansion in Gulf of Mexico drilling splits U.S. House panel along party lines
Photo: Getty Images As the Biden administration’s move to scrap new oil and gas leases remains in unsettled legal territory, Democrats and Republicans on a U.S. House panel sharply disagreed about the...
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From the battle to preserve American democracy to charter school chaos: The...
1. Experts say Black lawmakers are sure to lose seats under new NC legislative maps Two Black incumbent senators in eastern North Carolina have no chance of winning reelection in their newly drawn...
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GOP Sens. Newton, Sawyer, McInnis lambaste Gov. Cooper’s clean energy order,...
Gov. Cooper signed Executive Order 246 on Jan. 7 at NC A&T University (Screenshot: Governor’s Facebook page) This story has been updated with a statement from the governor’s office and Duke...
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State Fair cited for environmental violations related to controversial...
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has been cited for four water quality violations related to its clear-cutting of 19 acres for a State Fair parking lot, according to environmental...
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Federal appeals court deals another setback to proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline
A worker laying portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Roanoke County, Virginia in 2018. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury) A federal appeals court has again rejected permits issued by the U.S. Forest...
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Federal judge cites climate effect in canceling Gulf of Mexico oil and gas...
(Photo: Wikicommons) A federal judge invalidated leases to drill for oil and gas in a broad swath of the Gulf of Mexico, telling the Biden administration to weigh climate impacts before allowing...
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White House announces ambitious plan to curb methane pollution on farms and...
In an aerial view, some pumpjacks operate while others stand idle in the Belridge oil field on November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. In California, 35,000 oil and gas wells sit idle, many of...
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Fertilizer plant fire prompts recreational water advisory for Monarcas Creek...
Water runoff from the site of a massive fire at the Weaver Fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem has potentially contaminated Monarcas Creek, Forsyth County officials announced today. The runoff into the...
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A month before Weaver Fertilizer blaze, Winston-Salem residents reported to...
The neighbors of Harmon Avenue live about two miles form the Weaver Fertilizer plant. On Dec. 26, a month before the current blaze, they reported acrid smoke and possible fire to the city police and...
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