Environment
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…
Read MoreFor 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…
Read MoreThe NC GOP is playing politics at the expense of the people of North Carolina, most poignantly with the drinking water of Eastern NC. The priorities of our current legislatures are clear: retain power at all costs. It’s time they admit that years of slashing the budgets of watchdog agencies has lead to GenX and…
Read MoreLegislators in Raleigh had the chance to prevent Duke Energy from raising their rates to pay for their coal ash mess and they didn’t do it. Families in North Carolina who currently have high levels of toxic hexavalent chromium in their water, and still are drinking bottled water years after it’s discovery, are now being told they…
Read MoreOur current GOP-led legislature continues to cut funding to watchdog agencies protecting our air and water and are lenient on polluters. Legislators in Raleigh had the opportunity to stop Duke Energy from raising their rates to pay for coal ash cleanup and they didn’t do it. Now, unsurprisingly, Duke wants a rate hike that would…
Read MoreLegislators in Raleigh after learning of high levels of toxic GenX in the Cape Fear River and now in the well waters around the Chemours plant in Fayetteville, offered a pitiful amount of money to a local water utility as well as rolling back environmental protections which included repealing the plastic bag ban. This bill…
Read MoreThe North Carolina state legislature had an opportunity to protect consumers from coal ash clean up costs and they refused. The General Assembly passed a coal ash “cleanup” bill that allows Duke Energy to leave coal ash in 10 of its 14 unlined pits across the state. What’s more, the bill allows Duke to pass…
Read MoreSome coastal North Carolina communities are still waiting for $500 million in aid to recover from the flooding damage caused by Hurricane Matthew last year. After nearly a year residents and businesses are still waiting for the help they need to get back to normal life. With Harvey and Irma now demanding resources, it is…
Read MoreIt’s no longer just The Cape Fear River. High levels of chemicals are now being found in the ground water in Fayetteville. This highlights our need to increase funding to the Departrment of Environmental Quality, the agency who’s funding has been cut over and over again and currently has a 2 year backlog. So far…
Read MoreWith contaminated drinking water and now the repeal of the plastic bag ban people in Eastern North Carolina are feeling like their voices aren’t being heard by legislators in Raleigh. After repeated public outcry, coastal residents are feeling ignored. It’s time that representatives actually start representing the interest of their constituents and put people before…
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