Environment
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…
Read MoreDuke 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreCustomers 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…
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