Taxonomy Archives: North Carolina
Southeast Opposition Mounts as Senate Considers Proposal Tying Western Wildfire Funding to Logging
Washington, D.C.— Today the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources committee held a hearing on long-needed Congressional efforts to stabilize funding for wildfire suppression in the Western United...
Court Asked to Stop U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from Capturing and Killing Wild Red Wolves
Chapel Hill, N.C. – Conservation groups late yesterday asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from capturing and killing th...
Court asked to stop USFWS from capturing, killing wild red wolves
Citizen Groups Take Duke Energy to Federal Court for Coal Ash Pollution at its Mayo Site
Chapel Hill, N.C.--The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Roanoke River Basin Association, today brought a Clean Water Act enforcement action in federal court against Duke Energy for ...
Judge orders excavation of 4 more N.C. coal ash sites
Arsenic Pollution Plummets at Grainger Site as Coal Ash is Removed in South Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C.- According to the latest report on coal ash removal in South Carolina under a settlement, arsenic pollution at Santee Cooper’s Grainger plant in Conway, SC, has dropped significantly...