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The Environmental Management Commission’s Air Quality Committee recommended today (June 15) that the full EMC begin the rulemaking process for North Carolina to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The full EMC is scheduled to take...

This week at the NC General Assembly, the big news was that the House and Senate agreed on a state budget spending cap. That means budget negotiations between the chambers will begin in earnest. Reports indicate that the majority leadership did not...

Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order committing North Carolina to support offshore wind development goals of 2.8 gigawatts by 2030 and 8.0 gigawatts by 2040. The targets "are a clear message to clean energy investors that North Carolina will...

This week at the NC General Assembly there was major controversy in the Senate over Governor Cooper’s appointment to lead the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Dionne Delli-Gatti. The House moved forward a bold resilience bill that would...

A North Carolina state Senate committee bowed to partisan politics in refusing to accept Secretary Dionne Delli-Gatti, Gov. Roy Cooper's highly qualified choice to lead the Department of Environmental Quality. "This action does a disservice to North...

It was another outwardly quiet week at the NC General Assembly, although it’s reported that behind-the-scenes budget negotiations are ongoing and that the House may soon propose a state budget because agreement with the Senate - which is supposed to...

After a hectic few weeks leading up to crossover, this was a quiet week at the NC General Assembly. Senate leadership grabbed the opening to use the gasoline shortage stemming from the Colonial Pipeline shutdown to promote fracked gas pipelines.

Through 2019, North Carolina ranked second in the United States in installed solar capacity (meaning, not including rooftop solar), trailing only California. Last year, however, we dropped to third overall - and fifth based on solar added that year...

Thursday was crossover day at the General Assembly, which made this one of the session's most hectic weeks. The Senate approved the Farm Act, decried by one opponent as “lipstick on a pig” - the pig being the antiquated lagoon-and-sprayfield hog...

The N.C. Senate voted Tuesday (May 11) to approve Senate Bill 605, "NC Farm Act of 2021." Section 11 of the bill would require the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to create a general permit for biogas production at North Carolina’s...