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This week, N.C. legislators continued to draft and file many bills in the lead-up to filing deadlines. We review environmental bills as they become public and will share information on key bills with you, along with opportunities for action.

When Texans suffered long days without power during unusually cold weather, some said the energy loss could be blamed on frozen turbines. It wasn't true - and, in fact, clean energy could help mitigate weather anomalies like this one that can be...

Things have heated up at the N.C. General Assembly in recent weeks, though much of the action is still going on behind the scenes in bill drafting as bill-filing deadlines loom later this month. Legislators have a limited number of bills that they...

North Carolina’s 2021-22 legislative session officially began in late January but substantive committee work and bill-filing is just ramping up now.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a joint cap-and-trade program among 11 states. Its aim is to address climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from a region's power sector. North Carolina would be a natural addition.

What do the Eastern Seaboard states of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia all have in common? Each has committed to developing offshore wind generation to a targeted level by a date certain. It's time for North...

The term "clean energy" evokes images of wind turbines or solar facilities dotting the landscape. But what about the image of clear-cut hardwood trees shipped off to Europe as wood pellets and burned to generate power? North Carolina’s reputation as...

As the pandemic continues, jobless rate remains high and the weather grows colder, unemployed North Carolinians face an additional crisis: how to pay their utility bills. What is North Carolina doing to help them?

Today, it was announced that President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate Michael Regan to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For the past four years, Regan has led the North Carolina Department of Environment Quality. Regan assumed...

At the beginning of 2020, no one expected that a pandemic would cause worldwide disruption and division. But as our acting state director wrote in May, “Near isolation forced by COVID-19 has laid bare our core values and we have needed nature more...