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Before major blaze in January, electrical failure at Weaver Fertilizer plant...
A fire incident report released this morning showed that Winston-Salem firefighters and a hazardous materials team responded to a separate incident at the Weaver Fertilizer plant — on Dec. 26 — after...
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USDA pledges $1B for ‘climate smart’ ag products
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a $1 billion grant program to boost agricultural and forestry products that are made with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. (Screenshot from USDA...
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White House hails electric vehicle charging station builder for opening...
(Photo: NC Department of Transportation) Australian electric vehicle charging station manufacturer Tritium will open its first U.S. plant in Lebanon, Tenn., CEO Jane Hunter said during a White House...
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Electricity CEOs tout Biden clean energy tax credits, despite stalled plan
Photo: Getty Images Duke Energy’s Lynn Good among those in attendance at White House gathering Clean energy tax credits President Joe Biden proposed in his massive domestic spending and climate...
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National parks try to make progress on long-deferred maintenance
WASHINGTON — During a Wednesday U.S. Senate hearing centered on national parks, administration officials outlined to senators how funding from the Great American Outdoors Act is starting to reduce the...
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From book banning to changing COVID recommendations, to toxic PFAS in a NC...
1. Book banning battles hit North Carolina schools Conservatives target works dealing with race and LGBTQ themes Parents of sixth graders in a gifted language-arts class at Marvin Ridge Middle School...
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U.S. inspector general finds former Trump cabinet secretary broke ethics...
Ryan Zinke, right, as the Secretary of the Interior, at Sequoia National Park (White House/National Archives). An investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior found that...
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DEQ denies mining permit for quarry next to Umstead State Park
This is a developing story. The NC Department of Environmental Quality has denied a mining permit for a controversial quarry next to the 5,600-acre Umstead State Park in Raleigh, citing “significantly...
View ArticleWhile U.S. Supreme Court weighs EPA’s authority to limit greenhouse gases, a...
The report is 3,600 pages, but its message is concise — and grim: Drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions now or face the collapse of ecosystems and even human societies. And not in the...
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Pine needles can contain toxic PFAS compounds, according to NC State study
Pine needles don’t lie. Scientists at NC State University have detected more than 70 types of toxic PFAS in pine needles, including extremely high levels of several compounds in needles collected near...
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Through DEQ water quality grants, there’s a way to help the world (or at...
Third Fork Creek, represented in red as an impaired waterway, starts in south-central Durham near NC Central University. It flows southwest toward Interstate 40 where it joins New Hope Creek. In turn,...
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Before the fire, Weaver Fertilizer plant was storing more than 4.5 million...
The Weaver Fertilizer plant at 4440 N. Cherry St., Winston-Salem, on Feb. 6. (File photo: Lisa Sorg) Before a massive blaze erupted at the Weaver Fertilizer plant in late January, it was storing more...
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No culprit identified in Greensboro 1,4-Dioxane spills from 2021;...
This graph shows levels of 1,4-Dioxane during the June and November spills, represented by the spikes. The original limit in the Special Order of Consent is shown in orange; the amended order limit is...
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Lawsuit alleges racial demographics, activists drove Compute North to...
Compute North, which plans to host a controversial cryptomining center in Greenville, allegedly withdrew its application for a different site in Pitt County because of the area’s racial demographics,...
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Follow the money in two eye-opening audits, a community unites against a...
In this issue: 1. Yadkin County residents dig in for a fight against a proposed mine near homes, elementary school After living all over North Carolina, Terry and Joyce Long finally came home. In...
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Caswell County judge dismisses mining company lawsuit against residents,...
The site of the proposed asphalt plant at the Burlington North site (Google maps) A Caswell County judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Carolina Sunrock against opponents of a proposed mine and two...
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Biden administration will auction 110,000 acres off NC coast for wind energy
The federal government will lease more than 110,000 acres south of Bald Head Island for offshore wind energy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced today. The auction is scheduled for May 11....
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Ketanji Brown Jackson shines, micro-plastic worries for the Neuse, what to...
1. U.S. Senate winds up grueling Supreme Court hearings on Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court Representatives of the...
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Law firm, DEQ at odds over Chemours, PFAS discharges under proposed permit
Chemours’s new PFAS treatment system proposed for Outfall 004 could discharge up to 60 times more GenX into the Cape Fear River than a separate system currently operating at Outfall 002. (Map: Chemours...
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Interior would see big funding boost under Biden budget proposal, including...
Wildfires are a growing problem with which the Department of Interior must contend thanks to climate change – Image: AdobeStock President Joe Biden’s budget request, released Monday, would boost...
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