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Vanderbilt Medical experts: Climate change affects health
Art: Getty Images An increase in auto-inflammatory diseases, skin conditions and even cancer may result from creeping global climate change, healthcare professionals said during a Monday seminar hosted...
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Little appetite for Manchin permitting bill in congressional lame-duck session
A pumpjack works to recover fracked oil. Photo: Daily Montanan Environmental advocates say industry push for weaker fossil fuel regulatory process would be hugely destructive Among the items on...
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Siler City fined another $36K for continuing to pollute waterways
An aerial view of the wastewater treatment plant in Siler City (Photo: Town of Siler City) Siler City, whose chronic water quality violations have cost taxpayers $239,000 over the past six years, has...
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Hog farm that used dead pigs, spoiled meat as fuel for biogas digester fined...
This photo, taken by the Neuse Riverkeeper and Tar-Pamlico Riverkeeper on Aug. 23, shows the digester operating in violation of the farm’s permit three months after the original disaster. (Courtesy...
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NC Treasurer Folwell asks for ‘removal’ of financial CEO over environmental...
While NC Treasurer Dale Folwell called for the resignation or removal of the CEO of Blackrock, one of the world’s largest financial management firms over its environmental stance, North Carolina’s own...
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3M to stop making ‘forever chemicals’
3M still manufactures perfluorochemicals at its Cottage Grove, MN plant. Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer 3M announced Tuesday that it will stop manufacturing a group of chemicals called per-...
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Environmental enforcement has fallen off under Biden, report says
Executives at the Shell Chemical petroleum refinery in Norco, Louisiana, agreed to install $10 million in pollution monitoring and control equipment in 2018 to settle allegations it was violating the...
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How Putin’s war and small islands are accelerating the global shift to clean...
Solarize Charlotte Project. by Jack Miczek, Greenpeace. The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity and energy poverty around the world, and the beginning...
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Trash troubles: The pandemic started it; inflation keeps it going
Plastic waste cleaned from Durham’s Ellerbee Creek – Photo: Lisa Sorg This story was first published by Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Terrill “Ya Fav Trashman” Haigler, who...
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As another winter storm strains the electric grid, it’s time to fix...
Detroit residents brave the frigid temperatures and heavy gusts of wind in downtown Detroit on December 23, 2022 in Detroit, United States. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images) Christmas week...
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Today’s ‘must read’ op-ed: Key lessons from the Christmas blackouts
(Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images) As Policy Watch environmental investigative reporter Lisa Sorg reported yesterday, Tuesday’s meeting of the state Utilities Commission produced a great deal...
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Riverkeepers discover extremely high levels of fecal bacteria in waterways...
This photo, taken by the Neuse Riverkeeper and Tar-Pamlico Riverkeeper on Aug. 23, shows the digester illegally operating three months after the original disaster. (Courtesy photo) Two North Carolina...
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Upcoming online event: The Pentagon, climate change and war
We know there are many reasons people of conscience adopt sustainable practices. But to consider Earth care from the (somewhat alien-seeming) perspective of national security is to recognize an...
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New report: Utility CEO’s take home giant salaries, even as companies fumble...
Republished from the Energy and Policy Institute report, “Utility CEOs received $2.7 billion in executive compensation from 2017 – 2021” Duke Energy chief Lynn Good is among the highest paid despite...
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Touting his environmental ‘success,’ DeSantis is more con man than...
Gov. Ron DeSantis gives his second inaugural speech in front of the Old Florida Capitol Building on Jan. 3, 2023. Credit: Danielle J. Brown. Maybe it’s because I’m from Florida, home to sooooo many...
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More federal dollars coming from climate law for Western wildfire management
View from above New Mexico’s Black Fire on May 16, 2022 (Public domain photo via the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and Source New Mexico) The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend nearly...
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Affordable, reliable and sustainable: report compares utility performance
With three hurricanes in 2020, Louisiana had the worst performance among states for getting the power back on after a major event, according to a new report that compared how utilities ranked in three...
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Pittsboro sues 20 companies, including 3M, Chemours, DuPont over PFAS...
The Town of Pittsboro has sued more than 20 companies, including Chemours, DuPont and 3M, BASF and several other manufacturers of PFAS, for allegedly polluting its water supply with the toxic...
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30,000 gallons of hog waste from Murphy-Brown Farm enters creek in Bladen County
The release occurred at Farm 7692, where 30,000 gallons of hog waste entered Turnbull Creek. (Google maps) The NC Department of Environmental Quality is investigating the discharge of an estimated...
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USDA to use outdoors recreation to boost economy around national forests,...
Photo: USDA brochure: “Recreation Economy at USDA Economic Development Resources for Rural Communities” WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture began planning this month to develop outdoor...
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