Environment

Legislators 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…

Our 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…

Legislators 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…

The 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…

Some 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…

It’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…

With 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…

It’s clear from an email sent in 2016 that the McCrory administration was alerted to the presence of GenX in the Cape Fear River.  Nothing, so far, has been done to help the people of Eastern North Carolina ensure the water they drink every day is safe.  Residents deserve some answers about their water, and…

Since the discovery of the chemical GenX in the Cape Fear River politicians in Raleigh have been using the crisis as a political football.  Citizens have been clear on what they want: clean water NOW!  So far we have seen nothing but stalling tactics and political games like repealing the ban on plastic bags in…

Trying to defect blame, and without warning, Republican legislators tied the funding of the GenX research in the Cape Fear River to the repeal of the ban on plastic bags.  And now the EPA is reporting even more potentially dangerous chemicals present in the river, with some saying it is the  most polluted river in…