Environment

Years of slashing budgets of watchdog agencies and cutting regulations on polluting companies have directly led to the poisoning of our water.  With more and more contaminants being found in the water in and around the Cape Fear River it’s time lawmakers did something to stop it.  It’s time for politicians in Raleigh to put…

Years of slashing budgets of watchdog agencies and cutting regulations on polluting companies have directly led to the poisoning of our water.  With more and more contaminants being found in the water in and around the Cape Fear River it’s time lawmakers did something to stop it.  It’s time for politicians in Raleigh to put…

Eastern North Carolina has seen spill after spill of dangerous chemicals including GenX. These chemicals have ended up in the drinking water, local honey, and even the rain.  Our lawmakers had a chance to do something about this hazardous situation in January, but they left Raleigh without doing anything.  The people of North Carolina want solutions and…

In January the North Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill that would allocate $2.3 million to addressing the GenX pollution in the drinking water.  Senator Phil Berger said publically that the Senate would not even look at the bill.  Why doesn’t the GOP-led Senate want clean water for the people they represent?  It’s time…

The North Carolina General Assembly has known about the growing GenX contamination in the drinking water since June.  They have done next to nothing about it.  Rather than making the health of the people of North Carolina a priority, Phil Berger and the Senate have decided that doing nothing is better than increasing regulations on polluters or…

Duke energy knew they had a coal ash containment problem. The energy company allowed it’s dirty coal ash to be dumped into the Dan River poisoning the drinking water of North Carolina families. Now, they want to charge their customers to clean it up and pay for the bottled water they have been giving to…

The EPA has found high concentrations of GenX and other chemicals 100 miles upriver from Wilmington. This report caused yet another order to stop the chemical dump by polluters.  The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality yet again ordered the company to stop dumping pollutants into the water or risk losing their permits.  This demonstrates exactly…

Customers should not be paying for Duke’s coal ash disaster. This week brings good news for North Carolina citizens.  The North Carolina utility customer advocate disagrees with Duke Energy’s proposed rate hike.  Instead of a 14% hike, advocate Chis Ayers recommends a hike less than a tenth of a percent.  This certainly speaks volumes about Duke’s…

For years Republicans in Raleigh have been slashing the budgets of environmental agencies.  They will not admit that their huge cuts have caused people in North Carolina to suffer.  They have only offered band aid solutions that don’t fix the problem at it’s source.  Governor Cooper requested $2.6 million in restored funding for watchdog agencies…