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State officials are pulling the wastewater discharge permit for Chemours, the company whose chemical GenX has raised concerns about tainted drinking water in the Cape Fear River. "People who are personally affected by the GenX crisis will be...

State lawmakers used a bit of legislative sleight-of-hand to get two fracking boosters named to the Oil & Gas Commission, taking seats intended for conservation organization representatives. Cassie Gavin explains how the environment took a...

NC legislative leaders named two fracking supporters to the state Oil and Gas Commission late Thursday, after the General Assembly lowered the bar by changing the requirements for these seats with respect to conservationist credentials.Jim Womack...

The Legislature today voted to override Governor Cooper's veto of an omnibus environmental bill that repeals the popular ban on plastic bags in the Outer Banks and takes away local waste management authority by giving it to private waste haulers....

The Legislature returns this week for yet another mini-session, and may try to override Governor Cooper's vetoes of bad environmental bills. Cassie Gavin explains how safe drinking water, endangered sea turtles, and the air around landfills could be...

The bill contained a small amount of funding to address GenX contamination of the Cape Fear River, falling far short of a request Cooper made to the Legislature to state agency work to investigate not only GenX, but drinking water contaminants...

Governor Cooper announced today that North Carolina will join the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of states that have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.The Climate Alliance...

In yet another last-minute move, the Legislature tossed a collection of environmental provisions into one bill that heads to Governor Cooper's desk as lawmakers head out of Raleigh until October. Cassie Gavin explains the problems with a measure...

The catch-all bill would rolls back back water quality protections, repeal the OBX ban on single-use plastic bags, and give waste management control to private companies at local governments’ expense.

The NC General Assembly returned to Raleigh this week to work on rewriting legislative districts at the behest of the US Supreme Court. Cassie Gavin writes that the Legislature also took up up two veto overrides and now has plans to consider another...