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The 2025 legislative session is well underway: Offices have been assigned, bills are being filed, committee assignments have been made. Several bills of environmental interest have been submitted, addressing plastic pollution, balloon releases and...

The 2025 N.C. General Assembly kicked off in earnest this week. House and Senate members filed a plethora of bills that we're reviewing now to gauge the relevance and potential impact to our environment.

The N.C. General Assembly's 2024 "short session" was anything but. It lasted from April to mid December – appropriately, wrapping up on Friday the 13th amid heated protests over power-grab legislation. Our lobbyist, Laura DeVivo, wraps up the action.

Sierrans ready to rally to protect air, land, water, clean energy progress RALEIGH, N.C. – President Trump's Day One bid to dismantle environmental protections and climate change initiatives threatens to undermine economic and...

John Fussell's love for North Carolina's coastal environment began in his youth and lasted his whole life, from his days as zoology student and intern at Fort Macon State Park to recent years as he helped found the N.C. Sierra Club's Croatan Group,...

A coalition of conservation groups sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service this week, asking the agency to amend the Nantahala-Pisgah Forest Plan due to the tremendous damage Hurricane Helene did to North Carolina’s Nantahala and Pisgah National...

North Carolinians flooded the N.C. House over the past week in person, by email and over the phone, urging lawmakers to uphold Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of S382, the "Helene relief" legislation that actually focuses on stripping power from incoming...

As expected, the Senate voted along party lines on Monday to override Governor Cooper's veto of S382, a putative Hurricane Helene relief bill. Cooper outlined only a few of the bill's many flaws in his veto message. The measure makes a nominal...

In the same week that Asheville residents finally saw their drinking water restored –  some six weeks after Hurricane Helene – North Carolina lawmakers shrugged off a chance to provide additional substantial relief to our devastated mountain...

Duke Energy Carolinas & Progress saw a slight improvement in the Sierra Club's Dirty Truth report card this year, but its score could regress if the utility follows through on its short-sighted plans to add new gas-burning power plants and burn...