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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

Chemours Chemical Co. will face tougher requirements for monitoring, reporting, and communication about its emissions of industrial PFAs chemicals under a revised proposed consent order between the company, Cape Fear River Watch, and the N.C....

Four state representatives have sponsored a bill to create an independent redistricting commission to address gerrymandering. The N.C. Sierra Club has long supported bills like this to set up a better redistricting process than the highly partisan...

Council members of the Town of Apex voted Tuesday in favor of two resolutions committing the town to action on clean energy and climate change. One resolution supports the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and other will commit the town to...

This week, Politico reported that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler will not consider federal limits on per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals that are fueling a water contamination crisis in hundreds of...