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The N.C. General Assembly 2018 short session came to a close on June 29, but lawmakers say they'll return after the November election. That means that some unresolved environmental legislation may still see action this year. Cassie Gavin gives a...

The General Assembly set up a challenge to the governor's powers in the closing days of this year's "short session," putting a constitutional amendment on the ballot would maximize the legislature’s ability to control executive branch functions....

In the (presumably) waning days of the short session, state lawmakers this week focused on overriding several gubernatorial vetoes and considering amendments to the state constitution that would go on the November ballot, according to Cassie Gavin,...

A busy N.C. legislature pushed through a number of bills in hopes of meeting a self-set deadline. They included the Farm Act, which includes provisions that would severely limit the ability of landowners to seek redress in court when they have...

After years of objecting to taxpayer subsidies, including but not restricted to those for energy, the N.C. House today quietly passed legislation that would create a task force to explore ways to provide public funding to incentivize the expansion...

The bill would cut North Carolina residents' ability to seek redress in court for smell and sprayed waste from nearby factory farms, and "would create a new class within North Carolina’s population: limited-rights citizens," according to Molly...

A law approved Monday by the state Senate and now heading to the House would severely limit the ability of landowners to seek redress in court when they feel they have suffered a loss of use or value of their property due to neighboring farming or...

Lawmakers are moving fast to pass laws before the "short session" ends, rounding out the week with a Senate vote to override Governor Cooper's budget veto and tentative approval of a stinker of a Farm Act. Cassie Gavin gives an update.

Budgets are about appropriating funds, but they have long been a favorite place for North Carolina politicians to insert policy provisions that might not garner sufficient votes on their own. That tradition held true this week as the General...

The NC Senate today gave tentative approval to the state budget that has mixed news for the environment, particularly for water quality and clean transportation - topics "all North Carolinians can get behind - but apparently not all legislators," N....