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Sierrans are exploring ways to draw on the unique backgrounds of a variety of people - differences in age, gender, ethnic identity, political beliefs and religious faith - to improve our work to protect North Carolina’s environment. Read how the N.C...

This week at the NC General Assembly we saw Senate committees consider bills that attack wind energy, electric and hybrid vehicles and trees, writes Cassie Gavin, the Chapter's senior director for government relations.

After two rounds of public comment and stakeholder input, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality has released the final version of the swine general permit, which regulates the primitive lagoon and spray system used to manage animal waste at...

This week at the N.C. General Assembly, it was the Senate’s bill-filing deadline so many new environmental bills appeared - some harmful and some positive. In the House, members nearly unanimously passed two good bills to address electric vehicle...

Durham City Council members unanimously passed a resolution on Monday that commits the city to an equitable transition to 100% renewable energy and carbon neutrality by 2050. This bold action puts Durham on a rapidly growing list of communities...

Gov. Roy Cooper’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today ordered Duke Energy to excavate all remaining coal ash impoundments in North Carolina and move the toxic waste to lined storage. In a media release, DEQ said that “after conducting...

Activity on environmental bills sped up at the NC General Assembly this week. Senators filed several environmentally harmful bills including a proposal to ban wind energy in much of eastern North Carolina and a bill to disallow local governments...

Onshore wind energy development - and the economic boost it provides - would be banned across much of eastern North Carolina under legislation filed Wednesday by Sen. Harry Brown in the name of unnecessary “protection” for military readiness. Senate...

Cassie Gavin reports that the pace picked up at the legislature this week, and activity included the filing of good, bipartisan bills on energy efficiency and honeybee protection.

The 2019 session of the NC General Assembly has gotten off to a somewhat slow start this year with few bills filed and few votes so far, according to Cassie Gavin, our director of government relations